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Renaissance Panel: The Roles of Creative Synthesis in Innovation

Posted on January 12th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I'm pleased to announce that Leonardo Bonanni and I are organizing a panel this year at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy (on Monday, April 7th). CHI's theme this year ...

Fishing for Students at Splash

Posted on October 31st by Matthew Hockenberry.
I'll be teaching a class at splash in November for my favorite demographic - high school students. If you aren't familiar with splash: One weekend in November, over one thousand high school ...
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Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.

Posted on August 19th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
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Connor’s Kameraflage gets noticed

Posted on July 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
A little shout out to fellow collaborative Connor who's work on Kameraflage is getting a lot of attention today. For those of you who don't know: kameraflage is a context-Sensitive ...
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Making Money off Mashups

Posted on July 3rd by Forrest Diamond.
People have been building exciting and creative web mashupss, but most mashup developers haven't yet figured out how to make them profitable. Fortunately, IDELIX Software has developed a new ...
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Googling for Students

Posted on June 12th by Matthew Hockenberry.
One of my biggest concerns in bringing on new students is their ability to solve problems. I'm much less concerned about teaching actual skills. That's actually not that hard to do. You ...
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$100 Laptop at Siggraph Emerging Technologies

Posted on June 8th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As a heads up, the $100 dollar (XO) laptop will be demonstrated at Siggraph 2007's Emerging Tech, by myself and some other Media Lab people. If you're in the area ...
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The Recycled Challenge - Wordpress Theme Contest

Posted on May 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The collaborative has come into a little bit of money. To celebrate we'll be holding a little contest to for the recycled canvas theme. This seems fairly timely considering the nice ...
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I’m here to fix your *ahem* database.

Posted on May 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Good Magazine showcases some interesting statistics and graphs about internet pornography on the 'appropriate' medium. Possibly not a safe for work video (there is no nudity but it is definitely risque). ...

Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now

Posted on May 7th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Sorry for the delay but there is a lot of stuff going on here. In addition to the squeaky visual improvements and all of the basic features like: Clean simple theme in two ...

CHI - Design of Spatial Applications nearly Full

Posted on March 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If you are attending or thinking of attending CHI 2007 this year, my course offering "The Design of Spatial Applications" is almost full. If you think you are interested in ...
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Mousetracking for fun (but not profit)

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Creative Synthesis is now set up for mousetracking. Here is some of the activity, you can see where people held the mouse longer (bigger, darker circles). If you want to see something like ...

Deep Diving with IBM

Posted on March 9th by Matthew Hockenberry.
On wednesday I went down to New York City to participate in part of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook 3.0 for a deep diving brainstorm and discussion session on media and content. ...