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A student needs further participants for his bachelor thesis ! To sum up in short, be part of a professional photo shooting (Saturday, January 23rd) and retrieve portraits for free afterwards! (full resolution) Translation of the description ... Nowadays all commercial images are heavily manipulated to achieve a certain level of quality. The "Beauty experiment" …

Just another Ted-talk. This time by Will Wright. The New Statesman describes him in these words : " Will Wright - a legend among gamers, the nerd’s nerd, undisputed king of the simulation. " He developed Sim City , The Sims and finally Spore . In this talk from 2007 he presented Spore as a …

Interesting TED -talk by Clay Shirkey

Bremen will be a spot of the Global Game Jam , January 29-31, 2010. What is that actually ? Have a look at the last years keynote ! Registration is already open, detailled informations on the event in Bremen , organized by the Digital Media Master freshmen are also online. Very easy, just register at …

Open talk on ethics and unmanned war machines by Prof. Dr. Noel Sharkey , Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. University of Sheffield. Tuesday, December 8th. 20:00, Haus der Wissenschaft , located here . Just an announcement for a open scientific talk, related to the topic of ethics in computer science digital media. Might be …

In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born Unless you are 15 years old or younger, you have lived through the dotcom bubble and bust, the birth of Friends Reunited and Craigslist and eBay and Facebook and Twitter, blogging, the browser wars, Google Earth, filesharing controversies, the …

Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a …

Procrastination is so easy these days. There's a lot we can do when sitting in front of the computer. Checking Emails. Only one more video on YouTube, checking my subscribed Feeds, the weather, the stocks. Takes only a second. Seriously, it gets even worse when we try to do all the things at the same …

A few years ago I saw an interface for blind people which consisted out of a camera which was recording the contours of what was in front of it and translated that to an array of little actuators inside a device which the blind person would attach between his eyes. Unfortunately, I forgot about the …

The landing on the moon is one of the events in mankind I really would have liked to attend to. Well, no problem! The whole transmissions are played back in realtime, only 40 years after. Check it out here .

A new and stunning approach in anti-shake algorithms. In research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , shown at SIGGRAPH 2009. (However, they do not mention that – like with every other algorithms of this kind – a lot of the picture borders go down the drain, but it is stunning, nevertheless.)

Maybe some readers will remember Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, which freaked me out and fascinated me at the same time. Well, although we all saw it coming , for me this TED Talk by PW Singer fires up the transition from the fantastic and horrible visions, like so many other forms of technical "improvements" …

Hi, some weeks ago I read that Wolfram Research is planning to contend Google's supremacy on Internet. The initiative is reported in The Guardian , and comprises a knowledge search engine based on natural language entries. For that purpose Stephen Wolfram believes his scientific and mathematics engine might give better results in answering normal and …

Enjoy a TV feature about Grace Murray Hopper from 1982. EDIT: Btw. Today is Ada Lovelace Day !

April 18th, 2009 @ Caligari Theater in Wiesbaden We will explore new approaches that are being developed to confront the flood of information and transform it into useful knowledge Speakers will be Aaron Koblin (made that Radiohead music video), Sebastian Oschatz from MESO and others. Tickets for students are 40€. Drop me a line if …