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October 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Changing Education Paradigms : Sir Ken Robinson

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on October 29, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Now Belongs to China

Unveiled today at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is the world’s fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark.

Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China, and it is already fully operational. To achieve the new performance record, Tianhe-1A uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs. It cost $88 million;…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on October 28, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

FREE - an exhibition exploring the impact of the webculture

Today, culture is more dispersed than ever before. The web has broadened

both the quantity and kind of information freely available. It has

distributed our collective experience across geographic locations;

opened up a new set of creative possibilities; and, coextensively,

produced a set of challenges. This fall, the New Museum will present

“Free,” an exhibition including twenty-three artists working across

mediums—including video, installation, sculpture,… Continue

Added by Jasmin Farand on October 20, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Interview with Jordan Hatcher

Over the past twenty years or so we have seen a rising tide of alternative copyright licences emerge — for software, music and most types of content. These include the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) licence, the General Public Licence (GPL), and the range of licences devised by Creative Commons (… Continue

Added by Richard Poynder on October 18, 2010 at 11:57am — No Comments

Social Networking at the Tipping Point - Social Networking 2.?

With the release of the movie "The Social Network" and all of the media coverage of this as well as the tragic suicide of the Rutgers' University student Tyler Clementi, social networking has come to a tipping point.

Social Networking at the Tipping Point - Social Networking 2.?…

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Added by Henry Berry on October 4, 2010 at 9:46am — No Comments

Silke Helfrich on the commons and the upcoming International Commons Conference

As more and more of the world’s population has gained access to the Internet so a growing number of free and open movements have appeared — including the free and open source software movements, free culture, creative commons,…

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Added by Richard Poynder on October 4, 2010 at 8:03am — No Comments