KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

Google is teaming since september 2007 with the X Prize foundation to launch a commercial race to the Moon with a $30 million incentive.  To win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a team must successfully land a privately funded craft on the lunar surface and survive long enough to complete the mission goals of roaming about the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending a defined data package, called a “Mooncast”, back to Earth.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/ 

0n FT Predict (Financial Times Predict), the games are openned. The Google Lunar X Prise to be won before 2012 can be bet on or off. It is a volatile value.

A quite different subject than the usual prediction games of FT.com like the pakistani national election date or the possible US + Israel Air Strike over Iran prediction date for 2008...

Google Moon already exist. Images are from the NASA, as well as for Google Space. But if you look for Google Lunar, everything is not ready.

If interested, you can join and apply for a job on the moon, at he Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (GCHEESE) ! 

By Locating a research and technology center on The Moon (Googlunaplex), Google engineers will be able to experiment with an entirely different set of parameters and conditions.

The Googlunaplex will house 35 engineers, 27,000 low cost web servers, 2 massage therapists and a sushi chef formerly employed by the pop group Hanson.

IBM Many Eyes is a complete web service for information vizualisation.

KMLABS 's Google shared Reader contains also some materials for information visualisation

A new online comunity , Wazhua (^_^), is changing the way people blog and interacts through the web in China and elsewhere. Developped by Simon Chan, Wazhua looks like MyBlogLog, but with an extra "manga" style. KmLabs has uploaded the interface in the right menu, at the "SocioBlogology" section, under the MyBlogLog widget. See the KM Labs Washua profile here.

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By the way, "Knowledge Management" in Chinese is : 知识管理 (simplified chinese) or in traditional chinese : 知識管理

Virtual Reality Technologies can offer Reality Mining Tools when extended to real life situations.

About Complex Event Processing Systems

CEP Complex Event Processing Principle :

An introduction to Complex event processing networks (from Stanford university).

A Time Line representation (from MIT Institue)

Google Earth and similar applications

In Google Earth, models are realistic real world models.. Mostly models of the natural and physical world. 

Real Time Traffic

Earth Temperature Monitor

Other Virtual Reality Technologies

Second Life

There

Active Worlds.

Areae 

Vreng 

WoW

The sims.

Second Life 

Digital Earth

Digital Earth was the label given to a visionary concept, made popular in 1998 by former US vice president Al Gore, for describing a virtual representation of the Earth on the Internet that is spatially referenced and interconnected with the world’s digital knowledge archives. Keyhole Technology, Inc. (later purchased in 2004 by Google for Google Maps) was contracted to develop and demonstrate the first full globe 3-D interactive Digital Earth using web-stream data from distributed database located on servers around the planet. A concerted effort within the UN community through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), via the Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG), followed immediately, including purchase of early Keyhole systems by 2002. Today, Digital Earth is an international collaboration project, and China wants to play a major role forming a non-profit entity from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to host the international secretariat of the International Society on Digital Earth

The MetaVerse RoadMap

The MetaVerse project is a World Wide Collaborative Virtual Reality Project.

Virtual's Worlds Inputs are solicited in four topic areas: I. Industry Conditions, II. Forecasts, III. Issues and Questions, and IV. Problems and Indicators. These were divided into nineteen categories, from History to Progress Indicators. Each was also considered in three subcategories: A. Technology and Science, B. Business and Economics, or C. Social, Legal and Other domains. This is an adaptation of the Foresight Framework Model of Dr. Peter Bishop, chair of the Futures Studies masters program at the University of Houston . More Resouces Here .

The main actors of Internet regulation are mainly american :

- ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) : manage the distribution and use of the adress (Dns adresses (http:// ...) and IP adresses) : the adressing system.

- Iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) : controls numbers for protocols, the Country Code Top Level Domains for US (.edu, .mil) and maintains the IP Address allotments.

- Verisign : private amercian company in charge of the technical management of the whole infrastructure service

...then into ICANN, several organisations to highlight :

- ASO (Address Supporting Organization) : responsible for reviewing and developing recommendations on IP address policy ..working in collaboration with the RIR (Regional Internet Registries).

- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) : responsible for the IP adresses in North America
- RIPE NCC (Network Coordination Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Europe

- APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Asia

- LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in South America

- ccNSO (Country Code Name Supporting Organization) : for national domain names (.fr, .it, ..) with the ccTLD Registries

- gNSO (Generic Name Supporting Organization) : for global domain names  (.com, .net…) with the gTLD Registries

- Registrars : accredited domain names sellers
- RSSAC (Root Server System Advisory Committee)

Technical Engineering and Management

- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) : normalisation multimedia languages like html

- ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) : normalisation telecommunication norms

- ITU (International Telecommunications Union) : United nations Agency

- IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force : architecture and technical recommandations for the internet

Internet Society representation

- ISOC (Internet Society)

- ALAC (At-Large Advisory Council) : elected members to represent internet users

Emergence de APML  (Attention Profiling Mark up Language) en complement des fichiers OPML pour vos flux Xml/rss

- ce qu'on en dit sur Technorati : APML sur Technorati

- le blog Officiel : APML news

Quelques nouvelles ressources pour composer son ecosysteme 2.0
- Dexly répertoire + de 2500 "Web services 2.0".
- Programmable Web pour les "Mashups" ou encore Mashable

The concept of Earth Simulator, installed in Japan in march 2002 to run holistic simulations of global climate could be extended to other "world systems", (economic, social, human systems...) for "time forecasts" and prospective analysis Applications already exists in some domains, but these statistics are not yet accessible to the public.
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Supercomputing is already largely repanded (see the top500) in the World.




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Everybody can participate with his own pc to social computing , for instance with the World Grid to give power and energy to the Human Proteome Folding, fight against AIDS, virtual reality, search engines, ...

La cyber-culture est une culture de "gouvernail" et de "gouvernement": navigation et gouvernement de soi-même, gouvernement du collectif, gouvernement de personnes libres s'assemblant virtuellement sur la nouvelle agora du monde. Le cyber nous fournit un "gouvernail", ce qui est beaucoup. Mais il nous revient de nous donner un cap. Et le meilleur cap, c'est l'"autre" (Philippe Quéau , Cyber-culture et Info-éthique, 1998)

Cyber espaces, cyber cultures, hypermédias, Arts et Sciences .. Le Laboratoire d'idees et des Technologies
d' Ergolab-@Prospective (groupe de la plate-forme Technologique Arts, Sciences Technologies AST) regorge de concepts, images, idees sur le futur mediatique. En particulier le prototype Syngergiciel repris par Alain Chaptal.


















Vocation est de servir l'"Ethnomédiologie" ou la capacité à distinguer ("mode lecture") les composantes des un(e)s et des autres : facultaires, disciplinaires, ethnoculturelles, et à relier ("mode écriture") ces éléments que nous avons su expliquer de manière à les comprendre.

La marche vers la Singularité, décrite par Ray Kurzweil, a sans doute fait des pas decisif ces dernieres années.

Ci dessous, un prototype de l"interface du futur" developpe par l'equipe de Jeff Han de la New York University



Ou encore les videos (1, 2, 3) du Laboratoire d'Interaction du Sony Computer Science Laboratories dirige par Jun Rekimoto.

On y trouvera aussi une liste des principaux laboratoires de Recherche dans le domaine de l'"Augmented Reality" et des "Computer Augmented Environments"

Encore d'autres produits surprenants a decouvrir :
Cisco Telepresence, La Wii, l'AudioPad...

Une analyse plus complete des technologies du futur dans ce domaine se trouve aussi sur RDT info, rapport Recherche de la Comission Europeene ou encore l'excellente etude de la FING "ProspecTIC 2010", sur les interfaces homme-machine-environnement a l'horizon 2010