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5 000 000 Books

Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel discuss Google Labs’ NGram Viewer. In their TED talk what can you learn from 5 million books?

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The future according to Google

Some projections about the future from the webcomic XKCD:

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Reading through computer eyes

by Juan Carlos Rocha (PhD student at Stockholm Resilience Centre working on Regime Shifts) An N-gram is a sequence of characters separated by a space in a text. An N-gram may be a word, a number or a combination of … Continue reading

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Wilderness Downtown

Google Creative Lab has collaborated with the Montreal band, Arcade Fire to create a interactive web movie “The Wilderness Downtown” using Google earth.  Director Chris Milk combines the nostalgia of the new Arcade Fire song “We Used to Wait” with … Continue reading

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Cyber-Environmental Politics?

twitter.com/vgalaz Google and renewable energy? Hackers, deforestation and carbon emission rights? This might sound like an odd mix of events, but something is definitely in pipeline. Global environmental change and rapid information technological change have for a long time been … Continue reading

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Kenyan elephants send text messages to warn of crop raiding

Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir’s screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers’ crops during the harvest, sometimes … Continue reading

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