Using Crowd Power for R&amp;D
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Some pharma industry players decide to integrate crowdsourcing into R&amp;D to help reduce the high costs of developing new medicines. Assignment Zero interviews Dr. Alpheus Bingham of Innocentive for insights into how it works.
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In a new post to his blog today, Stuart Herbert continues the theme he started in a previous post about a business case for PHP. In this new entry, he shares some things he's done to further the effort.   To turn this from an idea into reality, I've setup a Google group where anyone who is interested can join in, and help build this resource. Please come along with your ideas and concerns, and let's see what we can achieve together.   He also suggests some "first steps" to get the ball rolling, namely a list of topics the business case needs to cover.
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There is something rather antiquated about many of the server clusters used today by engineers, scientists and media fiends. Their high-powered computing machines are often cobbled together over many days
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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When a small group crowds around a PC to work on a project, there&#039;s often considerable shuffling for a good view of the monitor and control of the mouse or keyboard.
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Lots of people own two or three computers. But thanks to a powerful new technology anybody can make any computer their own, just by plugging in a common digital device.
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Researchers create digital paper that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.
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Paul Jones has posted a teaser concerning his talks(s) at the upcoming php|works conference this year. One is about organizing your applications to make them easier to maintain and work better and the other is a follow up to some previous benchmarks he created comparing several of the popular PHP frameworks.   About The Benchmarking Talk - Easy one-liner: "Statistical Histories for Fun and Profit." And I do mean profit: the better your apps runs on a given stack, the more eyeballs you get on your ads (or, the more users you can handle).   He will be talking about why benchmarking your app is important, how to benchmark a framework and, the thing everyone's waiting for - his benchmark stats comparing several popular frameworks.   Paul also requests that, if possible, one developer from the teams of each of the other frameworks (besides Solar of course) could be in attendance to critique the talk and help point out issues either with the talk or in his methods.
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A new contest allows you to test your breakout business concept.
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Blog: Recent events underscore how many companies want to help bring computing to the world's children--so long as they can make money.
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Whether humans will embrace or resist an innovation is the billion-dollar question facing designers of novel products and services.
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Those little devils who keep the gears turning inside the Twitter machine added a toy that's got the community sending public love missives whizzing around. You can figure it out yourself, or you can cheat and read this howto. @lovelyperson   Substitute the name of your lover in place of "lovelyperson" and you've just broadcast your love to all of TwitterLand.  While we're on the subject of Twitter, a couple of other items. 1. A must-read piece in today's NY Times, gives a clue why kids don't go for Twitter if their parents use it. No kid wants to be observed by his or her parents. Would they go for it if their parents weren't there? No one knows.  2. Conventional wisdom says you can't build a scalable distributed Twitter out of RSS. At first I accepted this, as a puzzle, then I remembered that's why we put the cloud element in there. I felt that for some applications polling would be too much. Since the cloud element has been largely ignored, most of the the apps of RSS couldn't scale to do what Twitter does. But if RSS desktop apps like NetNewsWire or FeedDemon were adapted to understand the cloud element, and if a proxy system was worked out to get through firewalls and NAT, it might just work.  3. Or you could use XMPP.
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Researchers are working on autonomous robots that eat to produce energy. The problem right now is that batteries are much better. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Tom Shannon's massive spherical blimp design boasts 7 million LEDs. Now the challenge is to get it built. In Gadget Lab.
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In a few weeks, scientists from across the world will gather in the New Mexico desert to compete for one of the strangest and most ambitious technological competitions ever devised. Some researchers will unveil robots, powered by solar panels, which will climb long lengths of cable.
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Shared research produces fast, tiny memory ideal for consumer devices.
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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.