Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Taking a page from McLuhan, who charged modern electronic media with not leaving anything to imagination, Roger Ebert lays it all out for you when it comes to his distaste of 3D movies. They aim to make that which was supposed to…
Click the image to see our full coverage of Obama’s Abbottabad Compound The Department of Defense released this diagram of the Osama Bin Laden Compound. The map below overlays the Department of Defense diagram above onto the exact location of the Osama…
Map of Omaha Beach German fortifications (blue dropets) laid over the American operational map for June 6, 1944 (misaligned due to Google Maps limitations). Clicking the button “Google Earth” will show the 3d Model of the German fortifications and will correctly align…
The Daily Telegraph put the world on fire with the announcement that a square grid-like pattern of structures was found in the middle of the Atlantic. Google reacted promptly, claiming that the pattern is a digital artifact, being the product of the…
Comparing 3D-Earth Viewers – November 2007, Volume 21, Issue 11 – Archive – GIM International, the global magazine for Geomatics A 3D-Earth viewer enables navigating through the virtual environment and can be easily downloaded from the internet. How might this rapid development…
Comparing 3D-Earth Viewers – November 2007, Volume 21, Issue 11 – Archive – GIM International, the global magazine for Geomatics A 3D-Earth viewer enables navigating through the virtual environment and can be easily downloaded from the internet. How might this rapid development…
Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes – NYTimes.com – Annotated tags: student, expectation, grade inflation, entitlement “I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a…
Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes – NYTimes.com – Annotated tags: student, expectation, grade inflation, entitlement Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Will President Obama have a computer in the Oval Office? – By Nina Shen Rastogi – Slate Magazine Barack Obama completed his first full day as president on Wednesday. Pictures of the historic occasion showed Obama sitting at a gleaming Oval Office…
Update: Event moved to Indianapolis on April 13-14. Contact us for details (See contact page). Attendees to the Museums on the Web Conference are invited to attend the the pre-conference trip to West Lafayette. Purdue is a leader in the fields of…
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Notre Dames de Reims – Google Search tags: no_tag Cathédrale Notre Dame de Reims by kevin51340 – Google 3D Warehouse tags: no_tag World Heritage Centre – World Heritage Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what…
A $40 dollar Wii controller turned into a movement tracker that in the “wild” costs $$$$$$ shows that the building blocks of technological progress are simple functions and devices that can be combined into utilities. It also suggests that technological creativity at…
This series of Business Week articles maps out more than a year of high hopes and incredile public mood swings related to the newly minted Second Life 3D virtual reality environment (Update April 19: The Business Week search engine seems to be…
I found your blog while tagging my blog with SC06. I noticed that you were interested in finding the slides to Kurzweil’s keynote at SC06. I too was looking for them and found a couple of his slides on wikipedia and I…
Spaceaware is a research project I started a couple of years ago, which looks at how people make sense of information delivery experiences similar to the “hailing billboard” scene in Minority Report. (Remember the scene in which Tom Cruise is greeted by…
Lorraine Kisselburgh This week, Noshir Contractor introduces a rich array of information in discussing communication networks, new grid infrastructures, and social networking tools that can be leveraged to strengthen our communities – whether social, work, virtual, or even “exoticâ€. What follows are…
Howard’s input on the Kurzweil singularity issue See below…. Sorin… we might consider adding this link about Singularity to our class; H