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Sorin Adam Matei

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Sorin Adam Matei leads Purdue – Google partnership for enhancing teaching and research in “data storytelling”

Purdue’s Brian Lamb School of Communication is joining the Google News Lab University to better prepare students for 21st century careers related to digital media. “Purdue’s faculty will utilize the latest data journalism and storytelling innovations for teaching and research as part of…

Principles, tips, advice, and ideas for designing, creating, growing, maintaining, or using online – virtual communities

A list of principles for designing on-line communities created by Dr. Sorin A. Matei and his students registered in various versions of the Online Interaction Graduate Seminar at Purdue University Online / virtual community design principles Design guidelines are not guarantees. Many are necessary for…

Ubimark covered by major online sites: Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus

Over the last few days my project, Ubimark, which turns print books such as Around the Word in 80 Days into user interfaces for the web through the magic of 2d or QR codes, has been covered by a number of very…

gWiki technology featured at the Museums and the Web Conference

The gWiki technology is featured today at the School of Informatics, IUPUI, in Indianapolis as part of a preconference tour organized by Museums and the Web conference. The gWiki technology is at the heart of the Visible Past project that I have…