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Fleet number 37 was seen on Potterrow in Edinburgh’s Southside operating on route 42 from King’s Road (Portobello) to Craigleith. The building behind is part of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
National Institute of Dental Research (U.S.)
Publication:
[Bethesda, Md. : National Institute of Dental Research, 1987?]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Dental Informatics,
Radiography, Dental
Genre(s):
Pictorial Works
Abstract:
Researcher at the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) uses computers to measure very small changes in teeth and their surrounding tissues that are not detectable with conventional dental X-rays.
Exhibition:
Exhibited: "Images from the History of the Public Health Service," organized by Ronald J. Kostraba, Parklawn Conference Center, 1989.
Extent:
1 photographic print : 21 x 26 cm.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101447510
NLM Image ID:
A018676
Permanent Link:
© 2010 by Papafrezzo. All rights reserved.
Detail of 'The Cube', a stainless steel sculpture by Bård Breivik that was temporarily placed at Festplassen in Bergen, Norway. It has been removed today (September 6th) and will go in storage before it will be installed as individual wall reliefs on the outer walls of the new building for the Institute of Informatics (IFI) at the University of Oslo (IFI2). The sculpture consists of four walls representing the following mathematical equations: Orion's Belt, High C, Doppler Chamber Tone A, and Fractals. Here a detail of the "High C" wall.
An article from Bergens Tidende (BT), the local newspaper, from the removal. It is in Norwegian, but the picture tells the story.
Enjoy it best large and on black.
This collage is an example of what can be done totally legal and in a very simple way with the Creative Commons license. Thanks to the following individuals, Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons and the Wikipedia.
The topics of this little experiment have been several. From the first days of computing to nowadays most recent thoughts about information and technology itself.
1. General history of computing, computer science and informatics
2. Warfare, WWII and the evolution of computers, security and surveillance
3. Globalisation and "the net"-culture
4. From industrial-society to information-society
5. Violability of the information-society
6. Privacy
7. Copyright vs. Copyleft
I'm attending informatics (which isn't cs only) at the Technical University of Vienna
These minor local staircases are a feature of the Informatics Forum building. This one hangs out into the free space of the huge Atrium, connecting together the three vestibules on the three middle floors which offer computing facilities for visitors. In busy times this makes it easy for visitors to locate an empty computing desk and to locate their friends on other desks.
A view of this staircase from across the other side of the atrium can be seen here.
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This is an abstruction of the PoIC+43Tabs Circle I drew before. Time and space are expressed as a double-faced ribbon. The "space" is confined into one-dimension, although it is three-dimensional in real world we live. One side of ribbon is imaginary, and the other side is real.
You see there are four visual "transition". They corresponds to "Now", "Past", "Here", and "Future". I call a "Time" dominated time (black in the figure), and "Space" dominated time (white in the figure) as "Era", that is more fundamental dimension than time and space.
The idea of "Era" is expressed as "Area" by Aki, one of PoICer, in context with "space" (Era is much more like "time"). It may be related to "Aeon" of the Gnosticism, too. See also "Ying-Yang" diagram from Chinese philosophy.
This looks apparently strange, but not an "eye illusion". You can make it using a ribbon of paper.
This staircase links the three vestibules on the three middle floors which offer computing desk facilities to visitors. In busy times this makes it easy for visitors to move from one floor to another to find an empty desk. These wired university web facilities are in addition to the university web wifi which operates throughout the building, and in general anywhere within a stone's throw of any large university building.
There are a few other spiral staircases of this kind in the building. This is the most prominent one. It is viewed here from the other side of the atrium from the central open staircase and lift well which connects all floors. The view out from the bottom vestibule can be seen here.
At bottom mid right can be seen the main entrance with its swipe card security gates.
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This is a model which explains an index cards in PoIC system (photoset, group) become "half" after reproduction process.
Picture above is an atomic parts, and can be connected two or more, like zig-zag pattern. So things goes on two steps forward, one step back, and two steps forward, one step back, ....
Plotted how many days to finish one Field Notes (80 pages) v.s. Volume, using my last 39 Field Notes since 2006.5.26. The Field Notes is used as subsystem of PoIC to capture records, ideas, etc., before index cards. Each duration is shown as circle-bar-circle.
Its outlook shows steep uptrend at beginning, then constant uptrend, and flat at last. It looks like Sigmoid Curve or Logistic Curve appear in chaos theory. According to PEACE-Sigmoid model I made before, the Field Notes curve representing I'm approaching "Equilibrium" which is problem solved and the Field Notes finished its role in my system (in other word, died).
Recently, however, new problem arise around me (fortunately?), and I start using Field Notes (volume 40th) frequently again as before. :)
The atrium is extended on the ground floor into a two floor high meeting space on the other side of the main staircase and lift scaffold. For the first four floors the main staircase runs up inside the scaffold. For the last two it moves out into the atrium space in order to provide extended public space on the top two floors.
[Technical Note: a very difficult place to photograph, firstly because of the scale, secondly because there are at least three different colours of illumination.]
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