PUBLIC MARKS with search communities

Today almost everybody has at least one digital representation in one of the numerous social communities, like Flickr, Facebook and MySpace.

Progress is a celebration of how the human spirit for innovation - combined with technology - can enrich the lives of individuals, communities, and the world at large.

It's a story that taken Lonely Planet all over the globe, highlighting how groundbreaking mobile technology is connecting people to what matters, fueling the imagination, and empowering them to progress in life.

Reality Mining defines the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior. This new paradigm of data mining makes possible the modeling of conversation context, proximity sensing, and temporospatial location throughout large communities of individuals. Mobile phones (and similarly innocuous devices) are used for data collection, opening social network analysis to new methods of empirical stochastic modeling.

The original Reality Mining experiment is one of the largest mobile phone projects attempted in academia. Our research agenda takes advantage of the increasingly widespread use of mobile phones to provide insight into the dynamics of both individual and group behavior. By leveraging recent advances in machine learning we are building generative models that can be used to predict what a single user will do next, as well as model behavior of large organizations.

a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.

With the current housing crisis, the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, and rising energy costs, the future of suburbia looks bleak. Suburban communities in central California, Arizona and Florida are desolate and decaying, with for sale and foreclosure signs dotting many lawns.

P2P Rescue is a U.S.-based, not-for-profit organization working to raise awareness about and deliver support to Sri Lanka. Join us in our efforts to bring relief to communities in need on this beautiful island nation.

Technological tools are not made for people who speak more than one language, and there are many of us: immigrants, travellers, polyglots, emerging market facilitators, people from smaller language communities … In fact, people who are not Anglo-Saxon frequently use more than one language.

But technology is not made for us.

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