Kaust – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
On the homepage it says that KAUST will offer “uncommon freedom for pursuit of scholarship” to lecturers.
Add comment November 19th, 2007
Archive for November, 2007
Wissennetworx in Salzburg
with an event featuring Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research) and Heiko Beier (moresophy) in talks about the role of semantic technologies in knowledge management, organised by wissennetworx and hosted by Salzburg Research.
I enjoyed Wernher’s point that in our heads we are able to deal with a “soup of information objects” whereas machines are only able to process “lego type bricks”. Which is true, I believe. And it’s part of the problem of the semantic web.
1 comment November 15th, 2007
Tagit
Tagit is a small dissemination project supported by Land Salzburg (Wissenschaftsressort). The innovation is in students/pupils themselves contributing to a virtual atlas on Salzburg. See tagit.salzburgresearch.at.
The first tag was set by Frau Landeshauptfrau.
Add comment November 14th, 2007
4. Salzburger Medientag
For the fourth time, Plattform Digitales Salzburg (University, FH Salzburg and Salzburg Research) have organised an event on the convergence of media. This year’s theme was “mobile TV“.
Jo Groebel gave a keynote, outlining the development of the Internet and the mobile world form 1967 to 2007. Terms used were camouflage (first decade), competence, community, commerce and now community 2. There is an increasing number of options competing for the users’ attraction. It is important to explicitly take into account the
- user’s mood,
- the fact that they are part of a community and
- the situation awareness.
Summarising all the discussions, it was interesting to see that all experts expect mobile TV to be there (in 5 years). No one really know how and to what extent, but everyone is working towards that goal (broadcasters, service providers, etc.). And the overall estimation/mood was very good.
Add comment November 7th, 2007
