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When a droplet falls into shallow water, it creates a crown or "coronet". This droplet simulation was calculated using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) . SPH is one of the most impressive-looking fluid simulation techniques.
Fluid Motion Simulations and Artwork
10 Best Intranets of 2010 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Jakob Nielsen 's Alertbox, January 3, 2012 Summary: Social networking and personalization rise to higher levels this year, while mobile intranets continue to cut their teeth. Also, smaller organizations get larger teams and better designs. Although most of this year's intranets support entire organizations, CenturyLink's site is a specialized intranet expressly targeted toward the company's Business Markets group.
What an amazing way to start out 2011, learning that one of our customers received the impressive Nielsen Norman Group Intranet Design Award for the InnovCenter project. Our partner, weListen, worked with Mota-Engil to develop InnovCenter using the Telligent Evolution platform. This year's winning intranets maximized the collective knowledge, ideas and experience of their organizations' workforce by enabling employees to do the following and more: "Mota-Engil's InnovCenter encourages, guides and tracks innovative ideas from inception to completion.
Congratulations to Mota-Engil’s InnovCenter for being awarded Nielsen Norman Group’s 2011 Intranet Design Award! - The Telligent Blog - News - Telligent
Thursday, 17-05-2012 Mr. Isolino Gomes form Mota-Engil Central Europe participated in representation of the European International Contractors (EIC) in the expert conference organized by... Tuesday, 08-05-2012 The 15th anniversary of the presence of Mota-Engil Central Europe in the Polish market was a great occasion to present the jubilee photo exhibition entitled: “Roads... Wednesday, 02-05-2012
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Webinar - Spur Your Employees to Innovation - Telligent
Spur Your Employees to Innovation: A Mota-Engil Case Study With globally dispersed project managers, Mota-Engil needed a cost-effective way to spur innovation and conversation. The organization found that the same few employees were consistently coming up with ideas, but they wanted more people involved in the innovation process. With the help of technology company weListen, Mota-Engil developed an innovation management platform called InnovationCast. Mota-Engil employees now have an award-winning transparent platform for conversation around innovation that allows the company to leverage valuable employee knowledge like never before. Join Mota-Engil, weListen and Telligent for this 60-minute webinar to learn how to surface and evaluate employee-based knowledge, capture the innovation process from beginning to completion, align key employees with strategic initiatives and foster inter-department collaboration to enhance quality assurance.
Graphical user interfaces have a rich vocabulary, with design components for many different situations. Each of these building blocks might seem simple, but people don’t always use them correctly. Also, some website controls deviate from standard designs, complicating usability. Both situations have profound implications for the overall user experience. In this seminar, we’ll explore the behavior of each application screen component, or widget, including both standard behaviors that users expect and novel interface components designed for specific interactions.
Application Usability 1: Usability Week 2011 Conference
Mobile User Experience 2: Usability Week 2011 Conference
What makes a good application? A new, cool interface? Ease of use? Responding to users’ needs? Why do some applications become part of the everyday life of their users, while others are downloaded and never used?Complexity 2010 IBM
Capitalizing on complexity IBM, CEOs, CEO study, report, 1500 CEO's, global study Capitalizing on Complexity Insights from the Global Chief Executive Officer Study Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32
IBM are using Ceros multimedia publishing to showcase their "thought leadership". by Jan 6
Duncan Watts | Yahoo! Research
Duncan Watts (djw_at_yahoo-inc.com) is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He is also an adjunct senior research fellow at Columbia University, and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and Nuffield College, Oxford. His research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters to the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W. Norton, 2003) and Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton University Press, 1999).
OpenCourse - MIT
Graph theory and social networks Directed and undirected graphs, paths, cycles, diameter, clustering, bipartite graphs. Applications: the web as a directed graph, graphical representation of homophily Branching processes and random graph models Review of branching processes, Erdös-Renyi graphs, degree distributions, phase transitions, connectedness, and giant component.
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Networks
Continuing advances in information and communications technology (ICT) are increasing the scale and connectivity of today's engineered systems. Managing the resultant complexity is becoming the central challenge for UK industry and government: from software, to cities and even stock exchanges. Across the UK, a wide range of internationally leading research groups are addressing this challenge. In many cases they draw inspiration from biology, which provides innumerable examples of systems that cope with complexity. From cells to ecosystems, biology achieves scalability, adaptability, self-repair, and robustness, often by exploiting "emergent" system-level behaviours.
Complexity Science
World population
The world population is the sum total of all humans on Earth . As of today, it is estimated to number 7.014 billion by the United States Census Bureau (USCB). [ 1 ] The USCB estimates that the world population exceeded 7 billion on March 12, 2012. [ 2 ] According to a separate estimate by the United Nations Population Fund , it reached this milestone on October 31, 2011. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The world population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and the Black Death in 1350, when it stood at around 370 million. [ 6 ] The highest rates of growth – global population increases above 1.8% per year – were seen briefly during the 1950s, and for a longer period during the 1960s and 1970s. The growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, and had declined to 1.1% by 2011.Moodle development visualization 1/3
This is a long fascinating sequence covering 8 years of Moodle development. Please watch (at least) the beginning and the end of the three parts. by Dec 9
We have been immersed in complexity all this time. The Newtonian tools of proto-science approximated the way it all works with such power that the Industrial Revolution took shape - however, look at the consequences of the linear way things were exploited: terrible consequences. Hence the need for a refined understanding of complexity and the systems in which we travel. Good luck with your exploration. Remember that the Universe is made of energy, information and consciousness. That is the starting point. by pauljacobson Dec 19
Thanks for this pearl. For the moment, I just learn what are complexity sciences. I discovered this field via Edgar Morin. by agyeman Dec 19
I am also sharing this Pearl with Patrice - so I will curate it carefully and hope you also benefit from my inquiry. by pauljacobson Dec 18