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Despite glittering outside offers, Berkeley’s faculty are choosing to stay

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The notion of a faculty brain drain at Berkeley turns out to have a lot in common with Mark Twain’s prematurely rumored death: Reports are greatly exaggerated. Berkeley has won 88 percent of the 33 retention cases settled during the 2010-11 academic year, up from 72 percent of 50 settled the year be...

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Robots and Humans — swissnex

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From its past, largely industrial focus, the field of robotics is now rapidly expanding into the human realm. This shift was brought on in part by advances in technologies that make human-centered applications possible. A new generation of robots can now interact, explore, and work with humans. And ...

“There is no consumer-facing Internet brand or site that ever keeps consumers’ attention for more than 10 years,” said Tim Chang, a managing director at Mayfield Fund. “It is not hard to imagine that in 10 years, people are going to be off of Facebook even.”

Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold

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As the company goes public, it has to figure out how to use its vault of information to grow and enrich its eager shareholders.

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Futurefarmers Powers of Ten

Futurefarmers picnic with Jake Kosek, shot with drone camera. Accompanied by 17th century music written to communicate with the bees.

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BCNM Student Presentations, May 9, 2012

BCNM's annual DE and Certificate student presentations in the BCNM Reading Library, Sutardja Dai Hall.

A generative blog entry written by Andrea Horbinski, graduate student in history at UC Berkeley. Andrew writes on the recent Mutated Text Cross-Genre Writing Workshop co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media, Science Technology, and Society Center and the Center for Race and Gender!

ZERO1 and its 2012 regional and community partners are sponsoring a series of calls for participation in the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley. The series currently consist of 1 call for game proposals, 10 site-specific ArtHERE calls, and 5 Emerging Artist Network calls (which break down into more than 25 mirco-grants).

Proposals related to activating underutilized spaces in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District can be submitted by any artist through ArtHERE, a community website and open call platform that matches art proposals with empty spaces.

The ZERO1 Emerging Artist Network is a series of calls for California-based emerging artists for projects to be featured in the weekend-long outdoor exhibition during the opening weekend of the ZERO1 Biennial. Artists chosen to receive micro-grants will be invited to participate in a weekend of events dedicated to the development of this new program.

http://www.zero1biennial.org/all-open-calls

Ken Goldberg's African Project Aims To Innovate in Educational Robotics

African Project Aims To Innovate in Educational Robotics - IEEE Spectrum

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The African Robotics Network (AFRON) wants to energize the robotics community on the continent and use robots as an educational tool

BCNM DE graduate Jane McGonigal on her new online game, SuperBetter, designed to help users face their personal challenges.

Jane McGonigal, Designer of SuperBetter, Moves Games Deeper Into Daily Life

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Jane McGonigal has the theory that games, once played for amusement, can guide and improve your life.

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$60 million Simons Foundation grant to launch theory of computing institute

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The Simons Foundation has awarded a landmark $60 million grant to UC Berkeley to establish a theory of computing institute that promises to catalyze new advances in broad disciplines that affect our everyday lives, from how we spend our money to how we fight disease.

Thank you to everyone who attended Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media. We hope the symposium was stimulating and informative, exploring the cutting edge of new media technologies and ideas.

Here is a link to Kimon Tsinteris and Bret Victor's work with Push Pop Press in developing digital narratives for the age of new media.

Al Gore's 'Our Choice' - an iPad app

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"Our Choice" by Push Pop Press will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of...

BCNM PhD student Jen Schradie's recently published research challenges conventional wisdom about the digital divide.

Blacks blog more than whites, Hispanics

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Internet-connected African Americans are blogging more often than their white and Hispanic counterparts, researchers say.

Second panel of the day will be starting soon. Laurent El Ghaoui (IEOR, CS, and BCNM at UC Berkeley), Sophie Clavier (Intl. Relations, SFSU) and Cathryn Carson (History, UC Berkeley) will be speaking on "Tools of Interpretation."

Currently we still have seats open. Drop-in and participate in some insightful debate with panelists. View the schedule online at: bcnm.berkeley.edu/digital-inquiry.

Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media

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First panel of the day has started - Geoff Nunberg (I-SChool Lingust) Mairi McLaughlin (UCB French), and David Ayman Shamma of Yahoo speaking on "Language and the Digital Archive."

*Registration is underway, but we will be releasing open seats on a first-come, first served basis. Please arrive 15 minutes before every Panel. View the schedule online at: bcnm.berkeley.edu/digital-inquiry.

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Digital Inquiry is underway! Don't forget to tag your symposium tweets #digitalinquiry.

*Note registration is currently full for both days. If you would like to show up though we will be releasing open seats on a first-come first-served basis. Registration tomorrow starts at 9am, we suggest arriving early.

Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media

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The last History & Theory of New Media lecture of the year! - Rita Raley on Tactical Media, tomorrow at 5pm.

History & Theory: Rita Raley, “Tactical Media as Speculative Practice”

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The Stalking of Korean Hip Hop Superstar Daniel Lee
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Rapping under the name Tablo, Daniel Lee became a star in Korea and was a rising phenom in the United States. Then an online mob attacked his credentials and torpedoed his career.

The Stalking of Korean Hip Hop Superstar Daniel Lee

www.wired.com

Rapping under the name Tablo, Daniel Lee became a star in Korea and was a rising phenom in the United States. Then an online mob attacked his credentials and torpedoed his career.

Berkeley Center for New Media

Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media!

This Friday and Saturday April 27th and 28th!
Free and open to the public!

The two day symposium will bring together interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and media industry representatives to reflect on the nature of knowledge in the digital age. How do the tools of new media transform the questions we ask, how do they enable new questions, and how do they foreclose other questions?

*Pre-registration is currently full. If you are still interested in
attending the event, please call 510-495-3505, Monday through Friday, 10am - 5pm. (Limited seating is available the day of the event on a first-com, first-served basis.)


For more information visit: bcnm.berkeley.edu/digital-inquiry
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Mitch Resnick begins with a presentation on Lifelong Kindergarten — at MIT Media Lab.

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Our next session is underway - Mitch Resnick begins with a presentation on Lifelong Kindergarten

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at the Poetry Foundation blog. On a digital/real Asian American Feminist Poetics.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/margaret-rhee-body-maps-a-digitalreal-asian-american-feminist-poetics/

Margaret Rhee: Body Maps: A (digital/real) Asian American Feminist Poetics

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/04/22/university-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science-department-increases-athletic-budgets-hmm/

The University of Florida cuts Computer Science Dept, Increases Athletic Budgets...

University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. - Fo

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The University of Florida is cutting its entire Computer Science Department, an incredibly shortsighted move that will save a few dollars and lose a major chunk of its reputation. For what that's worth.

BCNM faculty member Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture) in new show at SFMOMA: The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area. http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/439

training computers for emotions...

The science of smiling

www.bbc.co.uk

Computers may be able to read human emotions in the very near feature, according to the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?tag=new-media

on new media and hannah arendt, thoughts?