Another article on Technology Review (like Scott’s below) is Tim Berners-Lee (the “inventor of the World Wide Web”) ranting about how you can’t today just say “I want to go to this event” and have the computer do the rest:
“There’s no way you can just say, ‘I want to go to that event,’” explains Berners-Lee, […]

Here is an ineresting article on speech recognition. I am a big fan, and look forward to the day when this works really well.For me, I would love to have a computer in my car that would just record my speech and later I could parse it. For example, composing emails on the […]

Catching up on my ETL’s tonight.. everyone should check these out regularly (hopefully in person, but the videos are good too). The link here is John Doerr- sooo intriguing. Check it out.

At the apple store they’ve put a couple of sweet NEC 40″ LCD 4000 displays above the Genius Bar. At about $5500, these things are clearly way superior to plasma, brighter, crisper, no burn in problems. A bit more expensive, but the ideal choice for dining, and for ISIS in general. If you poke around […]

I’m going to assume that all of you are reading the blog(isis.stanford.edu/private) regularly. There’s a lot of really neatinspirational stuff that can give us a good base to brainstorm and discussthe future of ISIS. There’s also the ability to comment on posts, which is astarting point for the kind of online discussions we should be […]

This article on social software talks about “The Matching Problem” (matching people with events, groups that provide a service with those that need it, etc.), and The Classroom-Management Problem (is the lecturer going too fast or slow?), two topics we’ve discussed a bit. Clay Shirky also has an article on Group politics in the connected […]

The coming age of calm technology (HTML, PDF). From the paper:Designs that encalm and inform meet two human needs not usually met together. Information technology is more often the enemy of calm. Pagers, cellphones, news-services, the World-Wide-Web, email, TV, and radio bombard us frenetically. Can we really look to technology itself for a solution?
But some […]

“In the future, video displays will be everywhere, permeating all of our environments, at home, at work, or in public spaces. What kinds of content would we want to see on these ubiquitous displays? We have begun to explore three different contexts in which these displays might be used, with a different application driving the […]

Gentry mentioned that he’d like to set up watch keywords on craigslist and other buy and sell services, receiving the info as email or an RSS feed. It seems like the idea of feeds based on keywords is pretty pervasive. It’s the kind of functionality that would make events@stanford pretty cool. Is there a good […]

Ran into this article on XML in Keynote. Of course I don’t know what it means–can we automate slide/movie creation yet?