What Are Universities Really For? Re-imagining Stewardship

What Are You Really Thinking?

This note describes a response to the call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004. The resulting piece is entitled " What are you really thinking? " 1. OVERVIEW The call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004 presented a challenge to the scientific and artistic community: to convert to sound 36 channels of data (mostly electro­ encephalograms, but also heartbeat, res...

Re-Imagining Justice

Re-imagining the Urban

Context The topic of this conference – ‘the right to the city’ – implies that the city is an important social stake. By association it also suggests that the struggle is between classes. As such it raises all manner of questions about the relation between society and space, class and territory that merit attention, even concern. In understanding events in cities, can one confine oneself to an u...

What are Stem Cells?

  Stem cells are undifferentiated self regenerating multi potential cells. There are three types of stem cells categories by the ability to form after cells and correlated with the body’s development process. Totipotent: these stem cells can form an entire organism such as fertilized egg. Ploripotent: ploripotent cells are those that can form any cell in the body but cannot form an entire organ...

Collaborative Research: Modeling Genre Ecologies, Mapping Communication Events: Re-imagining What Workflow Representations Are and What They Do for Knowledge Workers

Project Summary Intellectual merit. This project aims to discover previously hidden patterns of work organization (workflows) by taking a novel approach to the creation of work process visualizations of knowledgeintensive (KI) work. In order to answer compelling questions about the ways mature KI organizations can be both successful over time and innovative – that is, both stable and agile in t...