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Graph of Knowledge
05
Feb
A store type of information dubbed the “Knowledge Graph” now adds useful context and detail to the
list of links that Google uses.
Searching for certain people, places, or things produces a box of facts together with the regular results, the Knowledge Graph is already starting to appear in a few other Google products, and can be used to add intelligence to all of the company’s software.
Knowledge Graph is a symbolic structure of ideas and common sense that analyzes the relationships among entities, such as food, sports, or famous people.
A Google’s Web search is a step from understanding the context of documents, for example, knowing that a document about famous tennis players is also about tennis and sports, states the report in the MIT site.
The news is in an interview format, with the John Giannandrea, Google’s vice president of engineering, which explained that Google’s Knowledge Graph is one of the company’s efforts to teach the computers to understand better the meaning of the data.
Environment of total immersion
03
Feb
As researchers of Advanced Micro Devices claim, a version of a holodeck that is shaped like a dome, covered with wall-to-wall projectors, and uses surround sound, increased reality, and other Technologies are ready to recreate the real world.
The US Army Research Laboratory has created a floor, called an omnidirectional treadmill, which enables users to seemingly wander while it moves and while they stay in place.
Holodecks similar to the simulated-reality rooms seen on the film “Star Trek” but only will be available by 2024, according to these researchers, says a report in the New York Times blog.
Computer companies join with Hollywood and video-game factories want to turn something that is still only entertainment, into something closer to reality, by enabling users to see things and allow people to move around living rooms and become part of the story.
The technology can enable for example, those gamers in one stage, inside a game computer-simulated in the Yankee Stadium, to pick up a computer-simulated bat and hear the shouting of a computer-simulated crowd.
Microsoft has built the IllumiRoom and Lightspace, while the University of Illinois at Chicago has created CAVE2, this CAVE technologies are available and are well known.
Post 1000 and new themes
02
Jan
Reached in late 2013, precisely on the last day of the year posting number 1000, 
although it is only a number had already thought of a new theme , although it is the same, but will flee more of the technical aspects to address the social and cultural aspects .
Around the blog is what we call philosophy and Noosphere, but could also be Culture and Theology, without confusing them with Ideology and Religiosity, yet each can assume this connotation in certain contexts .
In these four years of blog try to show the technological changes that occurred throughout the planet, from political news as the Arab spring and the moves in the network to gadgets that create new mechanisms of interaction and communication that take place worldwide and involve repositioning cultural and social conditions in the planet’s inhabitants .
Technology when it reaches a level of full penetration in culture, turns herself in culture, in this case the ciberizados devices, is what was called Cyberculture.
We now want these devices to reach what we call ” calm technology “, ie, their impact assimilated into the culture, discusses them and develop them within the objective and subjective being-in-the-world aspects, and the relationship with its existence .
But we could not fail to address the aspects of his essence , ie the being-as-being, which was called in philosophy ontology, already discussed several times here and what refers to a subjective , spiritual sphere layer surrounding the culture and existence , which is the noosphere , the sphere of noon (spirit, mind or cultural mentality).
Welcome to 2014 , walk together in our lifetime on this planet .
New version of Kindle Paperwhite
13
Dec
Since Wednesday ( 11/12 ) the new version of Kindle Paperwhite reader is on sale at Amazo
n online store in Brazil and in several resales various points of malls and stores authorized.
Battery With high durability , range of up to eight weeks of regular reading and weighing only 213 grams and a faster processor , the new version has screen with higher contrast and LED lighting, has Wi – Fi connection and memory that can store up to 1000 books .
Now the device is connected to the Wikipedia dictionary and also the X- Ray , plus a quick reference of vocabulary terms learned while reading .
The Wi – Fi with 3G version comes with free 3G internet plan.
But the launch is a contrast with the overseas release of the new Kindle Fire tablets HDX , with a 7 inch screen and another with 8.9-inch screen, lighter and more powerful than the previous generation of Kindle HD , and come with storage capacities of 16 GB , 32 GB and 64 GB .
In the online store Amazon in Brazil has 400,000 eBook titles.
Myths MOOCS discussed
12
Dec
In last Thursday (06/12) of more than 200 academic institutions from around the
world met at a conference organized by the University of Texas at Arlington to hear the preliminary results on the MOOC Research Initiative, a program funded by the grant Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by Athabasca University in Canada .
Several institutions received $ 10 to $ 25 thousand to examine how MOOCS (Education Massive Online) can modify the higher education and the results will be in the next issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning as anticipates Inside Highred site .
The research presented on Thursday was perhaps best summarized by research Conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Which Analyzed the study habits of 1 million students across 16 Coursera courses between June of 2012 and 2013.A research presented can be summarized with the work done by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education , which examined the study habits than 1 million students in 16 courses Coursera , between June 2012 and 2013 .
“Emerging data … show that online courses Massive Open ( MOOCs ) have relatively few active users, and that ‘ engagement ‘ user drops dramatically , especially after the first two weeks of a course , and that few users clearly persist until the end, ” can be read in a study summary .
This drops the myth that these courses would reach a few thousand students .
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But other expectations are maintained , the cost of production MOOC . that can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars to create ” classes” of MOOC that are consumed and produced by institutions MOOC create two groups of problems , the first is not wanting to seem elitist , while the second is to generate content rejected even by own faculty members .
Christopher Brooks , a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information said ” maybe this seems obvious ,” he said “A lot of things seem obvious in retrospect,” but the main problem is not even funding .
“How do we make this incredible thing and get our ideas from everyone and not go bankrupt ? This is the challenge . ” This is the challenge.” Said Akiba Covitz , senior vice president of strategic relations for Academic Partnerships , referring to MIT and Harvard .
Virtual sightseeing tour in Street View
11
Dec
An application launched last Monday (9/12) allows you to create your own script
in Street View, ie, looking at the scenery and tourist objects on the path.
The feature also allows the same point of the path is shown looking in different ways, for example, one side of a given street tourist spot or commercial establishment on the other, as if making a stop.
The feature is already available on Google Views, allowing the hosting of photos into 360 °, so you can document a path you did with a sequence of images.
So you do your script, and share documents with friends.
To use the new application you should be in the new Google Street View and the options now appear on the screen and smooth ride.
Sony obtains patent SmartWig
04
Dec
According to a BBC report, the SmartWig can be used “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and 
communicate wirelessly with other external devices, but without clarifying how data is available, perhaps the famous glasses: Google Glass, Vuzix, Telephaty and others.
Actually it is a wig, according to the definition of the patent at the USPTO (United States Trademark Office), the device is a ” Wearable computing device, comprising a wig that is adapted to cover at least a part of a head of a user, at least one sensor for providing input data, a processing unit that is coupled to the at least one sensor for processing said input data, and a communication interface that is coupled to the processing unit for communicating with a second computing device”, thus defined is the device of Japanese patent Sony.
Patent further states that have at least one sensor unit, “a processing unit and a communication interface” which are ´wig´ and at least ‘partially covered by wigs so as to be visually hidden during use”.
Also according to BBC News, citing analyst Andrew Milroy, the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, the BBC: “Wearable gadgets are definitely going to be one of the big areas of growth over the next two years” said Milroy.
Technology in the kitchen
02
Dec
The cut is the main feature of a good cook , and the cutting board is usually your fetish, already
invented many kinds: board , plastic and glass , but now Siobhan Andrews revolutionized with a board with touch (touchscreen), named Chop Syc , and has won some design competitions , as Engadget site .
Chop-Syc uses a WiFi ( wireless transmission ) system , weigh the ingredients , recipes and suggests measures the exact amount of each item used , who will cook by eyemeter ( measured at the eye) , but knows that certain weight can make a difference in taste .
As is scalable, ie it can multiply as the number of persons,
And beyond the economy according to Siobhan also own the main idea is to simplify the cattail healthy food , getting to be able to add an ingredient to his request for market and may even make a query in online shopping site .
The material is resistant glass , allowing the cut food without any damage to its structure and is also easy to clean.
Well , do not say if you can save recipes , if not , here I leave the suggestion .
Bon appetit ..
Software that helps scientific mining
30
Nov
Jaron Lanier wondered about consciousness and about the linguistic possibilities of computing 
as a musician thought in music , but as a researcher can think of the possibilities of support for scientific research , as was done at Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with IBM .
According to a report in MIT Technology Review website, a software that reads more than 60 000 jobs, can assist in data findings across these studies .
The software parses sentences in the documents, and could build a new understanding of the known enzymes are kinases that are important for cancer treatment .
By analyzing this enzyme , the software it produced a list of other proteins that although the literature mention probably are not discovered kinases , but based on what he already knew , can they be identified .
The software was made in IBM Almanden Colloquium : the cognitive enterprise , on the 19th of November.
Most of his predictions tested so far resulted correct , according to researchers, usually in research spending could reach $ 500 million and $ 1 billion to develop a new drug , and 90 percent of the drugs tested to will never market, says Ying Chen , IBM researcher .
Web 3.0: coining words and give them meaning
22
Nov
Web is not just that I’m talking about, but also and especially of people, make sense,
especially human, the things around us requires thought and act more and more just on impulse .
On this blog I spoke earlier of the word selfie, but I have already spoken of Instagram and ordinary people and everyday landscapes that go through our day to day “photographic”, so too is the case of Web 3.0, or fashion trend?
John Markoff was who coined the word Web 3.0 in the New York Times , Web 2.0 has already happened , it created hundreds or thousands of applications ( Apps of considering the cell ) and included the common user as producer of information , now photos , posts , comments and ” hashtags ” are there calling our attention , but these people should ALWAYS be seen and heard , they were not.
The problem of our day to day , and also that the Web is a reflection and not an idealization of the day – to-day as some think , is that much that ” lacks ” direction , and found thousands of photos to look at , words and videos means that we need them or them offering new significance .
John Markoff suggested simple questions such as: “I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11 year-old child”, but actually thought of business , as own title and article suggest, by example Spivak company, Radar Networks, working on the holding of the content of social computing sites , which allow users to collaborate in gathering and adding their thoughts to a large amount of contents, travel movies.
But Web 3.0 now seems to be finding its way , projects like DBpedia and VIAF ( Virtual International authorit File) are indicating a more social than technical , although it may contribute to this, there is still a way in this ” construction ” .
