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Doors of Perception 7, Amsterdam - 14, 15, 16 November 2002
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FLOW LINKS
*ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
KurzweilAI.net
Latest AI news and thinking, Californian craziness, and good links.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=1
* ANTI-FLOW!
Still
Flowed out? These haikus and short poems attempt a Zen-like stillness. We say: OM . . .
http://www.into.demon.co.uk/still/index.htm
* BIOMIMETICS: DESIGN BASED ON NATURE
University of Reading Biomimetics Department.
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/cb/home.htm
Univeristy of Bath Biomimetics and Natural Technology Department
http://www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng//biomimetics/
Biomimetics Mailing List
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/biomimetics.html
* BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence.
Business/technology strategy.
http://www.sric-bi.com
SNT
Europe’s largest supplier of services in customer relationship management.
http://www.snt.com/
* COMPLEXITY
Plexus Institute
Fostering the health of individuals, families, communities, organizations and the natural environment by helping people use concepts emerging from the new science of complexity.
http://www.plexusinstitute.com/home.cfm
COMPLEX-M: Complexity and Management
An E-mail based discussion group for people interested in the topics of complexity science, management, sensemaking, and the relations between them.
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/complex-m.html
* ECONOMIC FLOWS
International Capital Flows
Research from the world-bank.
http://www.worldbank.org/research/projects/capflows.htm
*EMBEDDED COMPUTATION
GORIX
Electroconductive textiles.
http://www.gorix.com
Smart Its Project
Embedded computation, part of Disappearing Computer.
http://www.smart-its.org/
Programmable Matter
Nanotechnology meets embedded computation, results in the quantum dot.
http://www.viktoria.se/ubicomp/kn.html
* MAPPING FLOWS OF INFORMATION
Mappa Mundi
Mapping flows – of conversation, web traffic, virtual cities, etc. Sadly, the mag is no more, but you can still visit the archive.
http://mappa.mundi.net/map/issues/
Datamonitor Dashboard
Mapping business info for corporations.
http://www.internet-e-business-news-service.com/dashboard-101.htm
* MOBILES AND MOBILITY
Smart Mobs
Web guru Howard Rheingold has published a new book called Smart Mobs; its website contains interaction and commentaries, mostly from the San Francisco digital crowd.
http://www.smartmobs.com/
Mobile Special
Numerous articles on how mobiles have changed our lives, from the Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile/0,2759,181371,00.html
World Health Organisation Project EMF
Monitoring the effects of electromagnetic fields.
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/en/
Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research
http://www.mthr.org.uk/
Nokia
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,64,00.html
Ericsson
http://www.ericsson.com/
Siemens
http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp
Motorola
http://www.motorola.com/home/
BT
http://www.bt.com/index.jsp
* PEOPLE FLOWS
Pedestrian Flow
Sarkar AR and Janardhan K S V S (2001): Pedestrian flow characteristics at an intermodal transfer terminal in Calcutta, World Transport Policy and Practice Volume 7. www.ecoplan.org/wtpp
* RESOURCE FLOWS
World Resources Institute
Resource flows: the material basis of industrial economies.
http://www.wri.org/data/matflows/
European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Statistics on road freight transport.
http://www1.oecd.org/cem/stat/transport/roadfret96.htm
Transportation Statistics Information Sources
http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm80.htm
The Journal of Commerce
Through its publications, websites, and data services, JoC Group is the leading supplier of business information for people involved in transporting goods and commodities in the United States and internationally.
http://www.joc.com/
* SPACE OF FLOWS
(note: this phrase was coined by Manuel Castells in The Rise of the Network Society,1996)
Felix Stalder
Text from a talk about the space of flows, and how it might affect our cities.
http://felix.openflows.org/html/space_of_flows.html
* SUSTAINABILITY
Natural Capitalism
Website of Paul Hawken’s book.
http://www.natcap.org/
Sustainable Development Online
Lots of links to sustainabilty sites.
http://sd-online.ewindows.eu.org:591/sdo/smesupport/fmpro?-db=smesupport_.fp3&-format=index.htm&-view
The Natural Step
The purpose of The Natural Step (TNS) is to develop and share a common framework comprised of easily understood, scientifically-based principles that can serve as a compass to guide society toward a just and sustainable future.
http://www.naturalstep.org.
The Sceptical Environmentalist
Bjorn Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute
http:// www.economist.org/science/lomborg
Forum for the Future
Another how-to site on building a sustainable future.
http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/
* UBIQUITOUS / PERVASIVE COMPUTING
Pervasive Computing Journal
http://www.computer.org/pervasive/
Ubicomp Conference
http://www.viktoria.se/ubicomp/
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal
http://www.personal-ubicomp.com/
The Disappearing Computer (EU Projects)
http://www.disappearing-computer.net/
Project Oxygen
MIT pervasive computing project
http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/
Mark Weiser
Papers and stuff from Mark Weiser, self-proclaimed ‘father of ubiquitous computing’.
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Journal publishing international research contributions on the design and evaluation of new handheld and appliances.
http://www.personal-ubicomp.com/
Future Applications Lab, Sweden: Links
http://www.viktoria.se/~lalya/links.html
* USABILITY
Usability News
http://www.usabilitynews.com
*WEARABLES
BodyMedia
http://www.bodymedia.com/sec01_entry/01B_entry.jsp
MIT MediaLab
http:wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/mithril/
Steve Mann
http://wearcam.org
Wearable Computing
http://www.wearablecomputing.org
Xybernaut
http://www.xybernaut.com
5th International Symposioum on Wearable Computing
http://.iswc.gatech.edu/
Bristol University Wearables Project
http://wearables.cs.bris.ac.uk/
University of Washington Biorobotics Laboratory
http://www-rcs.ee.washington.edu/BRL/
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