I saw an interesting article in the San Jose Mercury News about Voice over IP (using the Internet for telecommunication). The article talks about some of the functionality behind it and emerging business trends.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/8358167.htm
I thought to myself.. sure we could just read about it.. but wouldn’t it be cool if ISIS labs did a project […]

So, once again, I have been contacted to help develop a new non-profit directed at seniors and aging called Smart Silvers Alliance — whose mission is to advocate for technologies that will allow the aging population to live safely and independently longer in their homes as they age. This will eventually be directed toward […]

Hello ISIS Crew - If anyone, or is ISIS as a group, is interested, please let me or Sharon Spain know directly…
Position Description:
Asian American Art Project
Undergraduate Intern
The Asian American Art Project is looking for an undergraduate student to digitize motion picture film footage (primarily 16mm and 35mm). The five films, which are fragile in nature […]

So, knowing the various intellectual affinities for robotics and web technology be many of the ISIS crew, I was wondering if we might be able to help my friend with developing and/or architecting his live robot design concept.
His name is Ridha Azaiz, a graduating high school senior in Germany and a rising star is robotics […]

Parents Weekend is coming up this weekend and I’m wondering if there’s anything we’d like to prototype with a whole lot of visitors to campus. Anybody have any ideas? Is E@S traffic way up?

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/nov03/nemsguitar.ws.html
A more portable guitar: “Its strings are really silicon bars, 150 by 200 nanometers in cross-section and ranging from 6 to 12 micrometers in length (a micrometer is one-millionth of a meter; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter, the length of three silicon atoms in a row). The strings vibrate at frequencies […]

I’ve been sitting on this research for a while now, waiting for time to go over it myself. Now that I am (what’s the “Super Bowl”?), I’m fascinated by it.
A research group at Berkeley is called the Familiar Stranger Project. They extend the work of Marshall McLuhan (”The Medium is the Message”) and Stanley Milgram […]

I thought this program sounded cool…any thoughts?!

Editing documents in groups can be a challenge. Versioning systems like cvs or subversion can help your group to keep a consistent copy of your document, but don’t go that extra mile. Wouldn’t it be great to edit the same document, live, in realtime, together with everyone in your […]

WIRED magazine is holding a celebration in May of all things future: NEXTFEST. It should be a physical example of all those photoshopped futuristic back pages in the magazine.
May 14-16, San Francisco — I’ll be there.

Yahoo! announced today that they’re forming a Yahoo Labs division. Yay for innovation.