People knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups of people--girls and boys, grandparents and college students--lovingly engage in these hands-on low-tech hobbies.

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Wireless internet has arrived. What's the next stage in our wireless lives? Computing, entertainment and healthcare will be increasingly mobile.

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Agastya is a movement led by entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, teachers and children to revitalize and transform education for disadvantaged children and teachers in India. Through a scalable and interactive education model, Agastya and its partners--government, corporate and social investors--aim to catalyze social development, innovation and leadership.

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One news experiment that actually aims to make a profit while generating original news is GlobalPost, an online international news source with original reporting from in-country correspondents around the world.

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Many important elements of our relationships with machines either go unnoticed or get very little attention compared to our prescribed and conscious interactions with them. These less considered elements--such as sound, infrasound, heat, and motion--are greatly significant and active on multiple levels.

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In this thesis we lay the foundations for a distributed, community-based computing environment to tap the resources of a community to better perform some tasks, either computationally hard or economically prohibitive, or physically inconvenient, that one individual is unable to accomplish efficiently.

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With the ongoing success of brand-dominated but factory-free companies like Nike in the consumer goods industry, architects are increasingly involved in the process of "branding." Since the 1980s, many of the brand name companies are co-operating with the same suppliers, and the supposedly unique products with different brand names are frequently manufactured in the same factories in Asia or Latin

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Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford. He earned a BA cum laude from the University of Michigan and a PhD in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University.

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Portraits depict something essential about a person, usually by delineating the subject’s physical appearance. With the Data Portraits series, in the new exhibition Connections (through Sept. 13, 2009) the Sociable Media Group explores a different approach, portraying people by expressively rendering their online interactions and data about them.

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Coping with information overload is a major challenge of the 21st century. Huge volumes and varieties of multilingual data must be processed to extract salient information. We have previously reported on research for how to automatically characterize large volumes of streaming content. However, information includes both content and associated meta-data, which humans deal with as a gestalt but computer systems often treat separately. Attributed random graphs provide a useful mechanism for jointly modeling content and context.

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