 | Picnic wake up prt. 3: Integrating collaborative networks Picnic wake up prt.3: Integrating collaborative networks Unboxing the meltdown, Fidlr and Andrew on Philips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9beeECbL_gM |
 | Sudhir Venkatesh - A Slice of Gang Life Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/24/Sudhir_Venkatesh_Gang_Leader_For_a_Day Author Sudhir Venkatesh reads an excerpt from his book, "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets." ----- Sudhir Venkatesh became Gang Leader for a Day. First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs, studying a crack-dealing gang from the insider. Subtitled A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Venkatesh's book describes how he managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. Initially looking for people within a notorious housing project to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty, Venkatesh never imagined that as a result of that graduate assignment he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there. His report is a brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. And it's also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT - two young and ambitious men a universe apart - Cody's Books Sudhir Venkatesh's research is rooted in ethnographic investigation of urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. His most recent book, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006), an ethnographic study of illegal economies in Chicago, received the C. Wright Mills Award (2007) and a Best Book Award from Slate.com (2006). His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000), explored the social organization, moral universe, and history of a Chicago housing development, The Robert Taylor Homes. His forthcoming book, Gang Leader for a Day, is a reported memoir (Penguin Press, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Youth, Globalization and the Law (Stanford University Press 2006) and Director of the Youth and Globalization Collaborative Research Network at the Social Science Research Council. He is currently completing a long-term project on sex work in New York and Chicago with the economist Steven Levitt. |
 | Technologies for Collaborative Democracy April 4, 2008 lecture by Beth Noveck for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). In this lecture, Beth Noveck discusses why current political institutions have changed little in response to Web 2.0. She explores the role of visual and social interfaces in producing better democracy and talk about the progress of the Peer-to-Patent project. Overall, the talk focuses on how both law and technology might be better deployed together to bring about not only deliberation but collective action and a new kind of collaborative democracy that connects institutions to networks. CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/ Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford/ |
 | Collaboration and networks Movement as a collaborative process |
 | Initial Successes and Failures of Monitoring Public Spaces Initial Successes and Failures of Monitoring Public Spaces Richard Robinson [Chief Operations Officer, City of San Francisco] Abstract: The presentation will discuss the City & County of San Francisco's Public Safety Camera Program from the perspective of the city's Department of Technology (DOT). The DOT for the City was directed to implement a Public Safety Camera Pilot program for the City in an effort to deter crime. Richard will discuss the history of the program as well as the role of the DOT in the vetting and implementation of a technical solution that was encumbered with many political constraints and much public scrutiny. Biography: Richard Robinson is the Chief Operations Officer (COO) for the Department of Technology for The City & County of San Francisco. The Operations Division for the Department of Technology is responsible for the day-to-day management of the cities Data Center, Network and Systems Engineering Divisions, Network Security, Architecture, Production Applications and Telecommunications Division (Wired, Wireless and Public Safety). Richard also serves as the Chair for the San Franciscos Committee on Information Technology (COIT) Architecture and Infrastructure Sub-Committee. Prior to joining the City of San Francisco Richard served as the IT Director for Stanislaus County, CA. Richard has over 20 years in IT experience starting his career with the design and development of international collaborative networks for the Institute for Manufacturing and Automation Research and the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International under grants from the National Science Foundation. |
 | Business TV Penny Power - collaborative businesses do better Hear expert business advice from social networking guru Penny Power, Founder of Ecademy. In this business tv show, she speaks candidly about this collaborative business approach serves so many companies so well, and explains how social networking can be of great help to them as they do it: "Well I've watched these businesses in Ecademy and I suppose for a, to a certain I've taken for granted what an Ecademy business member is and it wasn't until recently somebody recently highlighted to me the difference between Ecademy's network and other networks that it started making me realise that 21st century business is built through collaboration and is built much more through having people on contract to you running their own businesses are able to really raise your game all the time because if they're contracted to you as a business they are wanting to be a supplier to your business, makes your business have the best at all times in your business and rather than managing a large work force of people that you are ending up having to have HR departments to manage and offices to keep them in you're actually, as the leader of that business, focussed entirely on what the customer wants because you're not having to manage HR and facilities so 21st century business people should be collaborating with large groups of people that are all the experts in their field and bringing their skills in for their clients when they need them and that's the way that I see people using social networks at their absolute best is when they're not just using it as somewhere to get referrals and grow their brand, they're also using it in a collaborative way to develop their business in having the best people in their network. You know I've already talked about Darwin and the species who are most likely to survive is the one who can adapt the most. That has to be one of the most important mantras that we have when we go into the 21st century. Massive competition, massive visibility of brands so how can your business constantly adapt to this changing world that's accelerating at internet speed, the knowledge is accelerating, the needs, the demand for markets are accelerating. If you have a leading business where you're completely customer focussed then you're going to be able to adapt and by using a social network, a large group of people around you, experts in their field you're going to be able to adapt your business utilising a field of people rather than utilising a base of employees. See more business news television shows from Penny Power, as he gives his top expert business advice at http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com Find out more about the very latest show releases, as well as other yourBusinessChannel news by visiting our blog at http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com/blog.aspx |
 | Crossgate CEO Stefan Tittel and SAP CEO Léo Apotheker Crossgate CEO Stefan Tittel and SAP CEO Léo Apotheker answer Gartner's Paolo Malinverno's question regarding Business Processor Outsourcing and how the SAP / Crossgate relationship will grow into the future. http://www.crossgate.com http://www.sap.com |
 | Broadband Analysis of Collaborative Haptics This project investigates techniques that will allow an additional human sense, haptic touch to be sent over the Internet. Currently, networks are designed to carry information that stimulates two human senses: the auditory sense (e.g. VoIP) and the visual sense (e.g. video, graphic, text etc). However, the introduction of haptics in the medical field for training purposes has proven the importance of simulating this sense. We are at the dawn of the widespread use of haptic devices in a multitude of application domains. With the introduction of the Falcon haptic interface (Novint™ Technologies) such devices are not a "laboratory specimen" anymore but become a "household appliance." More info at http://cs.armstrong.edu/felix/projects/BACH/ |
 | Collaborative Observatories for Natural Environments May 11, 2007 lecture by Ken Goldberg for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). Ken describes a new class of systems that combine networks, robots, cameras, sensor, actuators, and human input to observe and record detailed animal behavior in remote settings. He also presents a series of results on robots collaboratively controlled by humans via networks. CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/ Stanford HCI Group: http://hci.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Professional Development: http://scpd.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/ |
 | CMAR - Collaborative Mobile Augmented Reality CMAR is a platform for collaborative mobile augmented reality, which allows several users to interact and manipulate with a shared scene on consumer mobile phones in real-time. Up to eight users can collaborate in an augmented reality environment trough the Bluetooth network. The network consists of a mobile phone server and therefore is the platform very portable, but the platform also supports PC clients listening to the network for a high resolution overall view visualization. www.cmar.se |
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