Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Parmi les conférenciers, c'est certainement Jean-Louis Lemoigne qui aura le plus retenu mon attention. Premièrement de part son charisme de prof d'université francais typique (grandiloquence, pas besoin de pauvrepointe, culture monstrueuse s'étalant des grecs à Herbert S...
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Vendredi à Lyon, j'ai assisté à une conférence de sciences cognitives intitulé "De l'approche systémique aux sciences cognitives". Les années précédentes les organisateurs proposaient une conférence assez similaire intitulée "La cognition non standard". A l'instar des au...
Does The Bell curve go flat ?
Daniel Pink in Wired 11.05 claims that the Bell Curve (normal distribution) goes more and more flat : low in the center and high on the side. For instance : there is tremendously large companies (GM, Citigroup...) and small enterprises; high-end luxury hotel and low-end budget (same for airways com...
The small-world phenomenon
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The small-world phenomenon is the idea that ANYONE on Earth can be connected to anyone else (even michael jackson in his castle :) through just 6 degrees of separation. This notion has been tested in the late 60s by social psyhcologist Stanley Milgram. His conclusion was...
My psychogeographical plan for tomorow
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Tomorrow, I'm gonna attend a conference about complex systems drom different points of view (AI, neuropsycho...) in Lyon, France. I also plan to experiment a new kind of dérive : I will use a map of Lausanne to visit Lyon (I know Lyon though), and the purpose will obvio...
Maja Engeli
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I should meet this Maja Engeli, a zurich-based architect professor who seems to work on real/virtual presence and close to the 3D gaming world. ...
Rem Koolhas
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Rem Koolhaas is dutch architect with strong acquaintances with smart people coming from various fields (william clancey, luc steels...). His work in architecture is related to virtual space as well as information visualization. He recently presented his stance about spac...
New extreme street sport
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The absolute next big thing is a new street sport : urban golf. On May 17th in San Francisco, the Urban Golf Association's holds its third annual "Emperor Norton Open". Player wears violent golf outfits. There is also a group named Natural Born Golfers. There war a demo ...
SMS Game
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I had a very interesting meeting today at EPFL with Philippe Rochat, a computer science phD student who showed us his SMS game. The game in itself is not that intersting but it was a way for me to understand how it works. In this game, the cell phone is used as a remote ...
Train Thoughts
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Dans le train, j'aime bien me mettre dans le sens inverse de la marche, c'est totalement l'inverse de notre habitude de déplacement, anti-physique mais c'est comme ca que l'on percoit le progrès... le futur quoi :) ...