PARC Innovations Update (2010 #6)
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“Best” blog posts
Here are the 2010 blog posts you engaged with the most, in terms of trackbacks, comments, and more:
- CCN now supports Android — In which we argue that yesterday’s network architecture simply does NOT suit today’s proliferation of multimedia, data, and mobility in a broadly connected world – and offer an open, universal architecture in an experimental, open-source implementation.
- Defining ubiquitous computing vs. augmented reality — For people who love terminology debates and buzzy paradigms (Virtual Reality, Pervasive Computing, Mobile Computing, Wearable Computing, Cloud Computing, Ambient Intelligence, Context-Aware Computing, Machine Perception, Smart Environments, Everyware), we say, you can call it whatever suits your fancy. What really matters is…
- Ethnography in industry: Objectives? + Ethnography in industry: Methods overview — The titles say it all, but to sum it up: 1. What is it? 2. What’s it good for (in my business)? 3. There’s a method to the madness.
“Best” videos
From our 40th anniversary celebrations, of course!
- From AllThingsDigital
- The business of breakthroughs
“Best” PARC Forums
This one’s really hard — is it the attendance, the quality of the talk, audience engagement based on questions? We don’t know*, but here are some that fell into all of the above:
- Atoms are the New Bits – Chris Anderson, Wired
- Good Boss, Bad Boss – Bob Sutton, Stanford
- How Wikimedia is Scaling Open Source Innovation – Wikimedia Foundation
*Oh and while you’re at it, please fill out this brief survey about PARC Forum
“Best” publications
This one’s even harder — there are so many measures of success, from influence to popularity to source to just really interesting work. Here are some options to consider:
- Scientific foundations: a case for technology-mediated social-participation theory + Advancing the design of technology-mediated social participation systems — in a special issue of IEEE Computer November 2010
- Materials and applications for large area electronics: solution-based approaches — in Chemical Review December 2010
- AI Space Odyssey — in a special section co-edited by one of our own in IEEE Intelligent Systems September/October 2010
“Best” news
Okay. This is completely subjective, we know that.
- Innovation PARCs here – San Jose Mercury News — because it was the cover story in our home-region Silicon Valley newspaper.
- PARC turns 40: mice, money, and the new interwebs – The Register — because it’s got a great title, and it’s long-form journalism in an age of tweets.
- In fact, why don’t you just catch up on 2010 through what other people said? — newsroom with snippets*
*not in the newsroom yet: if you’re a Tron fan, be sure to read this
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