Think Tank: Links to some interesting tech gosip

Something interesting . . .

http://www.tretc.com/ Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT showcases the technologies that are poised to make a dramatic impact on our world. This unique two-day event brings together world-renowned innovators and leaders and centres on the transformative technological innovations destined to better our lives, create opportunities, and fuel economic growth.

Making a Soft Cell http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/wo/wo_101705bullis.asp?p=1

Plastic solar cells can't yet compete with conventional silicon photovoltaics for efficiently producing large-scale power. But they've become good enough that at least one company, Lowell, MA-based Konarka, has moved past the proof-of-concept phase and is putting them into products.

Starting Your PC in a Flash http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/wo/wo_102105hellweg.asp?p=1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4392534.stm - Music trial taps into Bluetooth

Supercomputer doubles own record - It reached 280.6 teraflops - that is 280.6 trillion calculations a second. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4386404.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4382356.stm - BT offers TV 'on demand' service

Usability awards are just a start http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4392278.stm

http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ World Usability Day was created to help everyone know more about the ways to help create a better user experience of our world. With events occurring around the world,

C4 to fund £2m in public artworks - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4379880.stm

Lev Manovich lecture http://design.ucla.edu/eda/archive/serve.php?stream=/mnt/video/design/video/101104_LevManovich.rm

Lev Manovich was born in Moscow and moved to New York in 1981. He studied fine arts, architecture, animation, and computer science programming before starting to work with computer media in 1984. His projects have been shown in the key international exhibitions of new media art; In 2003 ICA London presented a retrospective of his works entitled "Lev Manovich: Adventures in Digital Cinema." Currently he is working on a five year project Soft Cinema <www.softcinema.net> which was supported by ZKM, BALTIC, and CAL-IT(2).

Manovich is an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego where he teaches courses in new media art and theory. He is the author of The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in 30+ countries. Manovich is in demand to lecture on new media; since 1999 he delivered over 180 lectures in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. His awards include Mellon Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship).

Roy Ascott Lecture http://design.ucla.edu/eda/archive/serve.php?stream=/mnt/video/design/video/042105_royascott.rm

Links

Metamute - http://www.metamute.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4360310.stm - Endemol launch mobile TV channels

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/issue/brief_actor.asp?p=1 - The Starving Actor. Why TiVo has never turned a profit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4351400.stm - Wi-fi cities spark hotspot debate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4357352.stm - Robots and TV to be big in 2006