IBM announced an interesting initiative — called Smarter Planet. What they show is that we’re all connected, today like never before: economically, socially and technically. When a crisis occurs on one part of the planet, it can bring problems to…
Smarter Planet by IBM
Planetary Skin
Some long term interesting approaches related to Green technology are finally emerging. Planetary Skin is one of them. And this is the need that the Planetary Skin concept addresses. In a nutshell, Planetary Skin is a massive global-monitoring system of…
Ideological Search
Yahoo reports beginning of a new search direction — ideological search. In this approach, you can select your ideology and then the system will present results that you want to see — will not show any results that will offend…
Complete sensual immersion — Holodeck reality
I had not heard of creating an immersive environment that will include all five human senses. Audio, visual, and tactile are common, and smell has been tried. But had not heard of serious claims to use of taste in an…
Formalism and Research
Once again I was amused, and slightly irritated, when a good friend of mine, who thinks that he is a scientist, once again commented — My thought about XYZ model is that it is not a formal model. It is…