Wondering if Meirs failed nomination wasn’t a smokescreen, or a pyrrhic victory for dems.

If you’re a thinky.org reader, I’ll just say that since the comments box above is totally anonymous, it’s a fun game to guess who’s writing that stuff. I’m thinking about posting the entries so far (and maybe changing the question soon)…

Reading Computation and Human Experience (by Philip Agre). It’s kinda blowing my mind. Great stuff.

Authors: Maribeth Gandy, Blair Macintyre, Peter Presti, Steven Dow, Jay Bolter
The paper is about an emerging idea from Augmented Reality research (AR is like VR, except that it uses head-mounted displays to place the virtual world on top of the real world — instead of a completely virutal world) to build AR Karaoke / Movieoke […]

Author: JCR Licklider
This is a classic paper of human-computer interaction and it lays out the foundation of the currently operating paradigm of “human in the loop” computing. Licklider positions Man-Computer Symbiosis (MCS) between “Mechanically Extended Man,” the paradigm of the industrial revolution, where technology tools extend the arms, ears, and eyes of mankind, and “Artificial […]

Authors: Jason Elliot, Lori Adams, Amy Bruckman
The Authors discuss a short evaluation (8 classroom days total) of their software AquaMoose. AuqaMoose is a video-game like (though not enough like one to appease the requirements of highschool students) microworld, in which students use mathematical formulae to navigate the space and pass “rings” / gates. The software […]

Found an iTunes helper app - SizzlingKeys.

Saw Hillary Clinton speak last night at a local Synagogue. Number of times she said the word Jew: 0 (1 “Jewish”). Number of times she said the GWB’s name: 1. She came off as very forward thinking and with a well-stated and positive vision for the future of the US. She’s runnin’ for sure!

Based on some feedback from Mason Poe, I set up a place for y’all to tell me just what I is. So let me have it.

I’m working out the kinks in Wordpress. The site should get better looking in the next few days. Fonts are still a problem. And archive / single-post post pages are all but non-existant. So beware!

I’m working this semester with Michael Mateas and Mario Romero on a generative art installation for the home, the Tableau Machine. The machine works by analyzing the video frames from 6 cameras mounted in the Aware Home (a “living laboratory” of a home — it’s got all the things a usual house has, a kitchen, […]

Fair trade? I’m letting erin use my shuffle and I’m taking her iPod mini.

Today, I’m hitting the Decatur beer festival. Daytime drinking + sunny fall day + Marta = supersweet.

Authors: Greeno, Resnick, ?
[insert section on behaviorism]
We begin with the schools under the Cognitivist / Rationalist approaches to learning, teaching, and knowing. Rationalism states simply that humans are best understood as a rational being. Humans seek to fit the world into their own internal models of objects, relations, forces, and constraints. They adjust and build […]

Brooks, F.
Summary:
Software engineering turns out to be quite a bear. Why? Is it essential to the process? There are some accidents:
x, y, z
There are also some essential problems:
q, r, and t.