Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos form the culture jamming duo The Yes Men. Through their actions, they try to raise awareness about problematic social issues, in their sense. In order to do this, The Yes Men impersonate people of high economical or political influence to expose lies and injustices.
On July 3 1884 Charles Henry Dow together with his colleague Edward Jones composed and published an stock average - called the Dow Jones Railroad Average -, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies. He developed the stock index as part of his market research and it was meant to serve as a reference value to determine fluctuations of the stock market.
Yesterday 11 years ago, famous writer Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy) passed away. Read the Blogpost and watch the videos about him on #yovisto
Yovisto Blogpost about Diana E. E. Kleiner, who in her lectures explores the civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii as part of her lecture on 'Roman Architecture'. She is an art historian known worldwide for her expertise on the art and architecture of the ancient Romans. Watch her impressive Yale lecture series on "Roman Architecture" http://www.yovisto.com/lecture/4288
Barry Smith explains scientific ontologies in the sense that a scientific ontology always refers to something existing in reality. In the talk, ontologies will be treated on `word-level`, i.e. neither technology nor implementation are subject of the talk, but only what comes before that in ontological design.
With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project.
Annenberg Networks Network Theory Seminar:
It`s not a Web of computers, it`s a Web of People.... Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, is talking about the history of the Web and on the subject of Web Science
Video zur Vorlesung Nr. 11 Protokolle der Netzwerkschicht / Datentransportschicht aus der Reihe "Rechnernetze und Internettechnologie", Sommersemester 2008, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dr. Harald Sack
Video zur Vorlesung Nr. 9 aus der Reihe "Rechnernetze und Internettechnologie", Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dr. Harald Sack, Sommersemester 2008
Vorlesungsaufzeichnung Nr. 08 aus der Reihe "Rechnernetze und Internettechnologie" an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dr. Harald Sack, Sommersemester 2008