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The guy who invented Mathmatica is developing a search tool that answers questions. Instead of it giving you a list of possible results, it searches its own database of content (based on Wikipedia among others) and formulates the answer for you. I know Google REALLY wants to give people the answer they’re looking for on the first try…maybe they will buy/license his technology! Stephen Wolfram Reveals Radical New Formula for Web Search | Epicenter. ...

So I’ll be off to CHI next week. Here is my poster that I’ll be displaying: And here is the paper: Wii Can Do It Wish me luck!

‘“IP cubed”: Games with rich story lines that can be extended into other media, giving fans the opportunity to delve in as deeply as they want.’ I think Heroes followed this too…oh how many hours did I spend reading the heroes comics and then realize the actual product wasn’t as good as the spin-offs meant to push it. SXSW: Dead Space, a ‘Deep Media’ Case Study | Game | Life from Wired.com. ...

I’m going to use the $88 I save from an OLPC to put towards an iPhone. $12 Computer: Playpower Wants to Save the World 8 Bits at a Time | Gadget Lab from Wired.com.

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CIMG1359, originally uploaded by gregwalsh. Using this apparatus, we are able to grow Janey 3 months in one night... Actually, she has jaundice and this is a pic of her in the photo-therapy light. She'll be here until tomorrow morning when she'll be evaluated for her BillyRubin count. Until then, she awaits take off.

CIMG1341, originally uploaded by gregwalsh. 5 lbs 1 oz Mary Jane Walsh is tiny.

This week, we talked about research ethics. It was pretty straight forward. We reviewed three different code of ethics from the following organizations: American Association of University Professors, American Psychological Association, and Association for Computing Machinery. They were, again, straight forward but it seemed like the APA had very strict guidelines. In class, we discussed that the more harm a group can do, in this case Psychologists, the more intense their ethical core needs to be. Conversely, a group may create an intense code of ethics to seem more important (I$m looking at you ALA). ...