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Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass is currently the Thomas M. Storke Professor at Stanford University; he has been a professor at Stanford since 1986. ...Nass's research focuses on (laboratory and field) experimental studies of social-psychological aspects of human-interactive media interaction. Specifically, Nass discovered that people use the same rules and heuristics when interacting with technology as they do when interacting with other people. This approach is called the "Computers are Social Actors" (CASA) paradigm or "The Media Equation" (media equals real life).
Astronomy in Hawaii
The Big Island of Hawaii is an international astronomy and scientific center. Mauna Kea's summit provides the clearest view of the skies of any location on earth for optical telescopes.
How to cure diseases before they have even evolved - health - 10 August 2009 - New Scientist
Goldblatt and a few other researchers think they have the answer. They are working on an entirely new class of antiviral drugs that should do something seemingly impossible: work against a wide range of existing viruses and also be effective against viruses that have not even evolved yet.
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What if, Goldblatt wondered, some host proteins are essential for viral replication but not for the survival of the host? If so, disabling these proteins should block viral replication without killing healthy cells.
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It remains early days for host-targeted antiviral therapy, as this approach is known. Indeed, many experts are sceptical about the entire notion. "People in infectious disease are comfortable with targeting the pathogen. They're not comfortable with targeting the host," says Goldblatt. One reason is the higher risk of side effects, especially with infections that require lengthy treatment.
"Until we can get these things into humans and test them, it's a little bit of a crapshoot as to whether they will work," says Michael Kurilla, who coordinates biodefence research at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland.
Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development - elearnspace
Commentary on IFTF report about research parks.
"This report is an extrapolation of how current trends might impact research parks. What is really needed is a creative considerations of what research parks (and universities for that matter) could be if they were seen as active, reciprocally-impacting agents in an environment: shaping and responding to emergence, rather than trying to predict the future."
How to Stick to Your Exercise Routine | The Greater Good Blog
The results, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, showed that participants who formulated intentions to overcome obstacles were twice as physically active—exercising nearly one hour more per week—as participants in the control group, who received information about the importance of physical exercise but did not formulate implementation intentions.
Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
On the Pew Science Survey, Beware the Fall from Grace Narrative : Framing Science
This traditional fall from grace narrative about science argues for the need to return to a (fictional) point in the past where science was better understood and appreciated by the public...
Yet you would be hard pressed to find this type of rhetoric in the peer-reviewed literature examining public opinion about science, the role of scientific expertise in policymaking, or the relationship between science and other social institutions.
W. P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at York University : Confessions of a Science Librarian
A strong commitment to research in any relevant area of e-librarianship such as: e-learning, digital collections, collaborative web spaces, social software, interactive and integrative online services, semantic web or cyberinfrastructure is required.
ITS-Davis: Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Off s and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector
This paper estimates the technological progress that has occurred since 1980 and the trade-offs that manufacturers and consumers face when choosing between fuel economy, weight and engine power characteristics. The results suggest that if weight, horsepower and torque were held at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks could have increased by nearly 50 percent from 1980 to 2006; this is in stark contrast to the 15 percent by which fuel economy actually increased.
JISC national e-books observatory project » Home
The national e-books observatory project is about exploring impacts, observing behaviours and developing new models to stimulate the e-books market, and to do all this in a managed environment.
Blographia Literaria: On Specialist Realism: Infinite Summer Post #2
At any rate, what I think is important is that this objection to detail is, more specifically, a gripe about detail that has obviously been arrived at by research—as opposed to details that are the result of mere observation. In either case, a certain density is the objective, one that is meant to signal that the artist is, in some sense, a specialist, willing to undertake extensive yet minute pains and labors to get all the details right, whether that's the way light plays on a woman's hair or the way drugs affect the human physiology. The specialist realist is someone who believes heart and soul the Carlyle quote that "Genius… means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble."
University Diaries » The Ghost in the Management
I recently looked at the c.v. of a distinguished professor of medicine and saw that he had authored (most usually had co-authored) about 800 articles in peer-reviewed journals, an average of nearly 30 per year over his career....How can a scientist author and publish 40 articles in a year? Year after year? In my fields (Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, Sociology), five peer-reviewed articles in a year is a lot, and most researchers would be happy to write one truly good article each year.
Open problems and a shameless ad « The Leisure of the Theory Class
The determinacy of infinite games with eventual perfect monitoring in the theory bag lunch a couple of weeks ago, and I promised some open problems, which I didn’t deliver yet. Well, we have a blog now, so here goes:
I consider in this paper an infinite general two-player zero-sum game with imperfect monitoring. These games are generalizations of Gale-Stewart games to the case in which players don’t observe opponent’s past actions immediately after they are played.
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