new science and art institute in gb.

Microsoft is supporting the IOCT, which initially has plans to create an Internet orchestra, cylindrical projection hologram animation, and pursue research in artificial intelligence.

holo in there; one day i will get my display and than even i may give up my resistance...

related: institute for the future, do they try to tell me that i have to revisit rheingold? nah, there is more interesting stuff to go through ... saw it too late: ethnographic network: trying to "understand everyday life and the role of tech in it"; another approach to a topic i failed on but stay tuned until i got it ...

A group of UC Davis researchers has just received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how open source software such as the Apache Web server is built. | via technews

another study on the topic, funded by the eu started 2005.

the 2-year project involves 17 partners in 12 countries around the world, who will share the Euro 660 000 (USD 830 000) grant from the EU's 6th Framework Research programme.

stanford research, 2003
mitsubishi research institute, 2004

Groups require coherence, networks require autonomy. Groups require privacy or segregation, networks require openness. Groups require focus of voice, networks require interaction. | stephen downes, revisiting david

there is also something out there called "team".