How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience

Remember how boring it was to visit a museum as a child? And more, when everybody was over the sign you coudn’t even reach the explanations?  Lately museums have adapted their displays to attract children’s attention, but see now How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience. Aliza Sherman writes about the new experiences implemented in Read More …

Rendez-vous with the EC research programme on Big Data

If you are in the area of Intelligent Information Management, check Roberto Zicari’s blog, he explains this call for projects from the European Commission in a simpler way than in the official site! Basically, they are funding projects in these areas: a) Reactive algorithms, infrastructures and methodologies b) Intelligent integrated systems c) Framework and tools Read More …

Gosling sails away from Google and Android

I just read this article Gosling sails away from Google and Android, where they write about the last move of James Gosling (the father of Java) leaving Google for Liquid Robotics. Check the great autonomous and unmanned maritime vehicle they did: as Gosling says, the whole concept is really cool! Can you imagine the quantity Read More …

Citizen Crowdsourcing

People encouraging people’s initiatives for the common good: here’s a great use of crowdsourcing for the benefit of the Indian population, and it’s done through crowdfunding! Here’s how the system works: Utility employees call NextDrop’s interactive voice response system when they manually open neighborhood water valves. The system generates text message updates for local residents Read More …

A view into the Data Protection landscape

In last week’s PWI lunch, Monika Kuschewsky explained to us the ever-changing data protection landscape. She’s a partner at Van Bael & Bellis, where she heads the firm’s European data protection law practice. Data protection has been reinforced with the Treaty of Lisbonne, now there is an obligation to inform any data loss or bridges Read More …