We at LAMP and AFTRS know of Randy’s legacy via contacts at Carnegie Mellon ETC in Adelaide and after seeing Randy Pausch’s passion for his pioneering work in the last lecture it is very sad news that he died this week. Text from the Carnegie Mellon site provides more detail.
“Pausch co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center [...]
Very interesting research from Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson who have just researched for ($1.5Mill US) and written a book called “Grand Theft Childhood” which makes the claim that rather than video simulations (games for the oldie readers) being about social rejects the actual opposite is true. Those children who are not exposed to playing [...]
“Design and the Elastic Mind” is a major exhibition currently presented by MoMA till May 12 2008. The title of the exhibition emerges from the assertion that while “adaptability” is hard-wired into human intelligence, coping with the recent and dramatic changes in our experience of “time, space, matter and identity” requires something stronger - [...]
Thank you to Claudine Ryan at ABC Science Online for this article:
Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found.
The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, found after two months of regular blogging, people [...]
I find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, destroying robots, then the agents in Matrix, what is real and who is not etc: All come from many years [...]
This fascinating article attempts to answer the question “If I can download everything for free what will I pay for?”
“Trust” is identified as a quality that cannot be copied or bought but is earned. While this article is dealing primarily with the internet as a copy machine, the quality of ‘trust’ is one of the [...]
Pod Slurping is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year for 2007.
Announcing the award today, the Australian dictionary’s three-member selection committee said the expression’s inventive and sensuous appeal had seduced them. Pod slurping, officially listed as a noun, is the downloading of large quantities of data to an MP3 player or memory stick from a computer.
The [...]
This just in from the ABC
Nearly quarter of Brits surveyed think Churchill a myth: poll
Man or myth? Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street in 1943 (AFP)
Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll which shows nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth, while the majority [...]
I love new social terminolgy from our perpetually evolving digital worlds. Led to the gapingvoid source by the talented geek girl, my Word of the Day is “social object“.
“The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else..But if you think about it, there needs [...]
Ok, my first blog post.. I am reluctantly posting this in fear of starting a chain of events that will blow up the universe!… What they hell am I on about? Well let me summarise
Today, Wednesday 30th January 2008, all of us Lamp staffers had a meeting and it was suggested we start a “water [...]
