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In recent years, using technology to change the way people work has often meant painful disruption, as CIOs rolled enterprise software programs through the ranks of reluctant staffers. Today, employees are more likely to bring in new technologies on their own—and to do so enthusiastically—through their Web browser, whether it’s starting a blog, setting up a wiki to share knowledge, or collaborating on documents hosted online. Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has been watching this shift closely.
How Web 2.0 is changing the way we work Andrew McAfee - McKinsey
These are the notes for a talk that I’m giving tomorrow at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. I’m posting them here because it is a convenient way to write and others might find these interesting. I’ll talk about MIT because that is where I have the most experience teaching. MIT operates the same way that it did upon opening in 1865: two semesters with long vacations in between; students do most of their learning in take-home problem sets (6-9 hours/week/course) for which they get some inspiration in lectures (2-3 hours/week); evaluation/grading is done by the same people who are teaching/coaching. The calendar was designed for rich families. You want your kid available in the winter so that you can take him down to your estate in Florida.
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When someone writes for a publication like MIT’s Technology Review , they have an obligation to write articles that are objective and scientifcally sound. To represent a brand like MIT, they have to observe the standards of review journalism such as creating measurable comparison criteria, applying those standards consistently, and giving consistent, even-handed treatment to their subjects. However, Wade Roush of Tech Review last month ignored all of these rules in his article What’s the Best Q&A Site? Perhaps it was Roush’s objective to take a light-hearted look at the Social Q&A space and therefore was lax in his editorial rigor, but if that’s the case, his review should have been published on a blog somewhere, not on Tech Review, and it should have had the appropriate disclaimers. When MIT Tech Review publishes an articles with hard numbers comparing websites, that review becomes gospel for the hordes of other sites that reference it, so it had better be accurate.
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I am a Professor of Technological Innovation in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and am also a Professor in MIT's Engineering Systems Division. I specialize in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. I also develop and teach about practical methods that individuals, open user communities, and firms can apply to improve their product and service development processes.Everyone knows a lot about something , whether it's quasars, quilting, or crayons. But the converse is also true: there are a lot of things that most people know nothing about. And unfortunately, that doesn't seem to stop them from sharing their opinions. That's one lesson I took away from my recent survey of the growing collection of social question-and-answer websites, where members can post questions, answer other members' questions, and rate other members' answers to their questions--all for free. The Wikipedia-like, quintessentially Web 2.0 premise of these ventures--which include Yahoo Answers , Microsoft's Live QnA , AnswerBag , Yedda , Wondir , and Amazon's new Askville --is that the average citizen is an untapped well of wisdom. But it takes a lot of sifting to get truly useful information from these sites.
Technology Review: What's the Best Q&A Site?
SENSEable City reveals 'friendspotting,' new MIT socia
MIT researchers today unveiled a new social networking application that will make it possible for anyone on the Institute's 168-acre campus to locate anyone else, via their laptop. Known as iFIND, the new technology was developed by researchers in the Institute's SENSEable City Laboratory. iFIND will give all 20,000 members of the MIT community the ability to accurately calculate their location on campus, using WiFi access points, and to choose if, when and with whom they want to share it with. It could become another case of campus culture having a major impact on the real world, like Facebook or YouTube, researchers said.
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Last word: for better and for worse, today's technological innovations spread faster than ever. This is my last column for Technology Review . Really.
Innovation Diffusion
Center for Collective Intelligence
Open IIS Help , which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup , Common Administrative Tasks , and About Custom Error Messages .Discussion and support group: I've created a forum (as a Google Group) for discussion and support, which will hopefully work better than me losing track of your e-mails.
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MIT Media Laboratory
Out of (Line of) Sight, But Not Out of View: The Camera Culture group at the Media Lab has created CORNAR: Looking around Corners with Femtophotography. With CORNAR, femtosecond imaging technology provides a way to see things beyond the line of sight–allowing us to see what's around the corner.Web Science
Held on Monday 23 May 2011 at the Royal Society, London. 140 business people and academics share views on the implications for business of open data, social analytics and new media. The Web Science Trust brings together academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers from around the world. Its goal is to foster multidisciplinary research to study the World Wide Web and describe the issues and challenges that will shape its future use and design.teaching electrical engineering and computer science and research into the best ways to use the Internet (these days, mostly practical online community stuff)
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Exokernel Operating System
An operating system is interposed between applications and the physical hardware. Therefore, its structure has a dramatic impact on the performance and the scope of applications that can be built on it. Since its inception, the field of operating systems has been attempting to identify an appropriate structure: previous attempts include the familiar monolithic and micro-kernel operating systems as well as more exotic language-based and virtual machine operating systems.This narrated computer animation shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. The successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents.