Monday, January 24, 2011
Norm Augustine Says
Norm Augustine says that America is losing its edge in innovation as the world flattens around us.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
A is for Apple and Astroinformatics
Two IS and informatics news items appeared in the last couple of days:
Steve Jobs is on leave at Apple again, and the fact that this concerns shareholders, customers, and investors illustrates the dual nature of IS.
Also, astroinformatics is in the news again as this article about Canada's astroinformatics data issues has been slashdotted.
Not all computer use in the sciences is about data management. Some of it is about computation, and the top 500 ranks the fastest computers in the world. Creating workflows and developing new applications in this environment is a problem that informaticists work with other scientists (physicists, biologists, and chemists) on.
I was saving this one for later in the semester, but the cover story on the Leo weekly this week is about LVL1, the Louisville area hackerspace, part of the maker movement.
Steve Jobs is on leave at Apple again, and the fact that this concerns shareholders, customers, and investors illustrates the dual nature of IS.
Also, astroinformatics is in the news again as this article about Canada's astroinformatics data issues has been slashdotted.
Not all computer use in the sciences is about data management. Some of it is about computation, and the top 500 ranks the fastest computers in the world. Creating workflows and developing new applications in this environment is a problem that informaticists work with other scientists (physicists, biologists, and chemists) on.
I was saving this one for later in the semester, but the cover story on the Leo weekly this week is about LVL1, the Louisville area hackerspace, part of the maker movement.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Keeping with the Lord of the Rings theme for 1 more lecture...
A recent Communications of the ACM has this article showing the intersection of informatics and The Lord of the Rings. The link is most likely only accessible from the IU campus or through the VPN. There is a wealth of informatics content in this article:
1. The fact that new economy companies are running virtual worlds for profit.
2. That archiving such material is a complicated problem at the intersection of information systems, library science, computer science, etc. It's an informatics problem.
3. A lot of academic researchers (e.g. professors) may be interested in researching the social aspects of how people use these virtual worlds. Depending on the methods used, that could be sociological research or research in social informatics. What would the difference be?
This recent L.A. Times article shows a potential new use for BD Live Blu-ray content. Why is it posted here? What does it tell us about the New Economy or increasingly accelerated change in a digital world?
If you didn't know it before, it's official! The N.Y. Times has reported that Facebook is in a better position than MySpace.
Finally, this recent Wired article talks about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Finding new ways to use, visualize, and learn from this information and deal with the large amounts of data is the domain of astronomers, astro-informaticists, and computer scientists.
1. The fact that new economy companies are running virtual worlds for profit.
2. That archiving such material is a complicated problem at the intersection of information systems, library science, computer science, etc. It's an informatics problem.
3. A lot of academic researchers (e.g. professors) may be interested in researching the social aspects of how people use these virtual worlds. Depending on the methods used, that could be sociological research or research in social informatics. What would the difference be?
This recent L.A. Times article shows a potential new use for BD Live Blu-ray content. Why is it posted here? What does it tell us about the New Economy or increasingly accelerated change in a digital world?
If you didn't know it before, it's official! The N.Y. Times has reported that Facebook is in a better position than MySpace.
Finally, this recent Wired article talks about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Finding new ways to use, visualize, and learn from this information and deal with the large amounts of data is the domain of astronomers, astro-informaticists, and computer scientists.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Welcome to Informatics I-101!
Welcome to Informatics I-101 at Indiana University Southeast. I'll be using this blog to put links that relate to our classes. Informatics Systems (IS) are constantly advancing and changing, so we'll be looking for IS "in the news" as we go along.
Here are two recent articles that are worth checking out:
Recent Wall Street Journal article showing benefits of a technical/computational major.
See how Apple compares to other information/tech companies in value.
This cartoon seems specific but it describes problem-solving in the modern age:
xkcd flowchart for problem solving (try this before asking somebody, i.e. me)
Here are two recent articles that are worth checking out:
Recent Wall Street Journal article showing benefits of a technical/computational major.
See how Apple compares to other information/tech companies in value.
This cartoon seems specific but it describes problem-solving in the modern age:
xkcd flowchart for problem solving (try this before asking somebody, i.e. me)
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