Ricardo Sato

I will write about a wide variety of topics but the general themes will be things like Open Source, networked learning, software industry, futures, knowledge management, knowledge work, emerging social technologies, personal publishing and creativity.

A summary of what those of us who are thinking, writing and speaking about networked urbanism seem to be seeing: fourteen essential transformations that, between them, constitute a rough map of the terrain to be discovered.

TYPECHART lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.

Only four freshmen showed up at the University of Virginia in 2007 without a computer of their own, and the school has decided that it's no longer worth the expense of running campus computer labs.

What you see has always been an interpretation imposed on the data your eyes provide, but now your interpretation mechanism is tuned to a world from 30 years ago. When you talk to people and perceive the meaning of what they say, you round to the nearest simple interpretation in your model and reply to that; the actual intended meaning may not be easily expressible within the conceptual language you use to organize your world. You see and hear that which is in terms of what has been. You are growing blind.

Hardware: Data capture (scanners, photocopiers); Information storage (DVD, Cdrom); Barcode; Microfilms; Server architectures for documentaries; Mobile data management; Interaction devices; Laser discs and video films; Expansion devices; Hearing aid devices; Magnetic strip cards; Card reader.

Software: Archives, libraries and documentation centers; EBooks; Assessment (formal methods, metrics); Intranet and Internet; Electronic commerce; Document Management; Information and Knowledge Management; OCR's; Databases; Image processing; Collaborative tools; Enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer (CRM) (SCM), (EAI); Artificial Intelligence; GRIP technology.

Services and Solutions: Web portals; XML and new standards; Information accessibility; E-learning; Ergonomics (Human Factors); Digitization of documents; Interactive systems; Virtual reality; E-administration; E-government; Modeling user; Domotics; Content management; Information distribution system; Digital books; OPAC's.

Research into how Web browsers apply CSS properties/values onto form elements.
Browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 – Internet Explorer 6 – Internet Explorer 7 – Internet Explorer 8b2 – Firefox 1.5 – Firefox 2 – Firefox 3 – Opera 8.5 – Opera 9 – Chrome1 – Netscape Navigator 7.2
Operating System: Mac OS – Windows OS
CSS Properties: background-color – background-image – border: 0 – border-style – border-width – color – font-family – font-size – font-weight – height – letter-spacing – line-height – margin – padding – text-align – text-decoration – word-spacing
Form Elements: Input-Radio Buttons- Input-File Upload – Textarea – Input-Text – Input-Checkboxes – Select-Multiple Items – Select-Single Item – Submit Button

How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? The slides from Nicole's presentation at Web Directions North in Denver will show you how to use Object Oriented CSS to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. Adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful, standards-compliant, fast websites.

Dez escolas primárias em Osaka, no Japão, concordaram em utilizar o portátil DS, da Nintendo, como ferramenta de educação dentro de suas salas de aula.

Eduardo Morgado, professor da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), é um dos pesquisadores que investigam o potencial do m-learning no Brasil. Ao lado de outros professores e com patrocínio da Microsoft, ele desenvolve um projeto no campus da universidade na cidade de Bauru, com alunos dos cursos de sistemas de informação, licenciatura em matemática e pedagogia. "O objetivo é desenvolver aulas diferenciadas, por meio dos dispositivos móveis, em que os alunos não precisam estar necessariamente presentes para acompanhar o conteúdo que será desenvolvido pelo professor", explica.

A biologia é um dos campos que já abraçou a simulação participativa, uma das modalidades de m-learning. Exemplo disso é a atividade ilustrada a seguir, um estudo do contágio de doenças por seres humanos. Por meio do celular, cada aluno desempenha um papel – vírus, anticorpos ou seres humanos vulneráveis ao contágio – e tem funções a cumprir na simulação projetada em sala de aula. A interação se dá por meio de um programa usado em classe.

Durante uma daquelas cansativas aulas sobre química orgânica, o celular dispara um alerta sonoro muito conhecido entre os jovens. Chegou mensagem de texto. O professor olha aborrecido para o dono do aparelho e pede que ele o desligue imediatamente. O estudante ainda tenta ler as letras que aparecem na pequena tela, mas é novamente censurado pelo professor: não há nada que incomode mais o mestre do que celular em sala de aula.

Outras pesquisas já haviam mostrado que os computadores têm contribuído pouco (ou nada) para a excelência nas escolas brasileiras. Até esse momento, no entanto, nenhuma delas havia traçado um retrato tão negativo. Analisa a especialista Fabiana de Felício, autora do estudo: "Sem a supervisão dos professores, as crianças perdem tempo em frente ao computador com atividades sem nenhuma relevância para o ensino". Leia-se: jogos e bate-papos virtuais.

Sixth Sense is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures, like in the infamous Minority Report.
However, instead of requiring you to be in front of a big screen like Tom Cruise, Sixth Sense can do its magic—and a lot more—everywhere, even while you are jumping hysteric over Oprah's sofa.

The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit research group with over 40 years of forecasting experience. The core of our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace. We provide insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and social dilemmas. Our research generates the foresight needed to create insights that lead to action. Our research spans a broad territory of deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology, the workplace, and human identity. The Institute for the Future is located in Palo Alto, CA.

Maria Elizabeth Bianconcini de Almeida, doutora em Educação e coordenadora do programa de Gestão Escolar e Tecnologias, desenvolvido pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) de São Paulo, afirma que as escolas não exploram todo o potencial que a tecnologia oferece. “É nesse contexto que surge a importância da formação não só para o professor mas também para os funcionários, para que a tecnologia não seja utilizada só em sala de aula, mas faça parte do coletivo."

WaSP InterAct is a living, open curriculum based upon web standards and best practices, designed to teach students the skills of the web professional. Adapt and reuse our resources. Contribute your own content and ideas.

Mitsubishi Electric Corp prototyped a capacitive touch panel that can detect the distance between a finger and the panel and demonstrated it at Interaction 2009, which took place from March 5 to 6, 2009, in Tokyo.
Mitsubishi Electric calls the touch panel " 3D touch panel" because it can determine not only the x- and y- (plane) coordinates of a finger but also its z- (normal direction) coordinate. The prototype has a 5.7-inch screen with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels (VGA).

Ubiquitous Interaction (Uix) couples in-depth studies of human-computer interaction with design in the area of novel interfaces (mobile, ubiquitous, multimodal, mixed reality). The goal is to contribute to technology development efforts by deepening understanding of human perpectives.

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way.
Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more.
We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s.
I should mention that this article showcases only the significant advances in GUI design (not operating system advances) and also not all of the graphical user interfaces and operating systems existing today.

Who doesn’t like JQuery? This fast and easy to use Javascript framework became very popular in 2008. In the following article, I have compiled a list of 8 absolutely useful JQuery hacks, tips and tricks.

In this paper they speak about the role of play in learning and the freedom it entails:
"game players regularly exhibit persistence, risk-taking, attention to detail and problem solving skills, all behaviors that ideally would be regularly demonstrated in school."

And they touch on how Augmented reality games could contribute to the goal:
"Augmented Reality games that embed students in realistic real world scenarios"

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA's research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players.

Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation in education research from Linköping University in Sweden shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based knowledge is created.

Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon.

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph – we call our piece of it Calais.
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application