Monome Community Tour
In the spirit of collaboration, as it is exemplified by artistic endeavor, more than 30 Electronic Musicians from around the world will be participating in a global, relay-style tour, showcasing a diversity of musical usages for the monome controller.
Santa Fe Complex Awarded NSF Grant
The Santa Fe Complex is part of the New Mexico "brain trust,” along with the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, awarded $597,220 in funding from the National Science Foundation's Partnership for Innovation program. The grant will fund the development of the hardware and software that make it possible to use "fulldome immersive environments"--such as the LodeStar planetarium at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science--to help people visualize, simulate, or experientially comprehend a wide range of information.
Canal Traffic Simulation – City of Venice
Situation [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo Credit: Kyle H. Miller"][/caption] The City of Venice needed to revamp operations on its canal system to reduce traffic noise and minimize the serious architectural damage to the city’s structures caused by wakes in the canal system. As part of the CIVITAS Initiative, a project sponsored by the European Union, the investigators wanted to identify solutions that would lead to more sustainable, clean, and energy-efficient urban transport.
Public Mental Health – Tracking Clients through the System
SituationSan Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth & Their Families (DCYF) needed to understand the movement of their clients through the services and among the various providers in the public mental health system. With a mission to ensure that young people become healthy, productive, and valued community members, the department needed to understand the impact of client demographics and clinical characteristics on outcomes.
Mick Thompson and Tyler White win Alcatel-Lucent iPad App competition
Mick Thompson and Tyler White took first place and $10,000 in an Alcatel-Lucent contest to develop an iPad app using the Alcatel-Lucent location based service API. The app they made puts your friends (using smart and non-smart phones) on a map using new location-getting techniques and shows the closest Flickr image to their location. Mick (Collecta) and Tyler (Legend Apps) submitted the app named “Peer Peer” – named for it’s verb-noun meaning. For more information about the competition, visit the Alcatel-Lucent website.
Calling Technologists & Artists
On June 17-19, the Santa Fe Complex launched the first stage of a permanent installation demonstrating the power of ambient computing. Now that the launch is past, the Complex is inviting technologists and artists to come work with the Complex team to invent next-generation computer interfaces. The first state of this ambient computing demonstration featured works demonstrating new concepts in digital projection mapping and human/computer interaction.
The Complex was completely mapped in digital projection, and the projections were monitored by interactive sensors for human interaction and play through the use of Android mobile phones, iPhones/iPads, Wii controllers, and laser pointers. more…
Santa Fe Complex Awarded NSF Grant
The Santa Fe Complex is part of the New Mexico “brain trust,” along with the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, awarded $597,220 in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Partnership for Innovation program.
The grant will fund the development of the hardware and software that make it possible to use “fulldome immersive environments”–such as the LodeStar planetarium at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science–to help people visualize, simulate, or experientially comprehend a wide range of information. more…
Simtable Wins $100,000 VAF Award
Simtable, a company that got its start at the Santa Fe Complex, has been selected as the recipient of a $100,000 award from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Venture Acceleration Fund.
Chip Garner and Stephen Guerin shed new light on wildfire modeling. Photo Credit: Bill Stengel
Simtable is a technology developed for wildfire training, incident command, and community outreach that combines hardware and software to create simulations on sand. more…
Cafe Scientifique: “Eternal Vigilance: How to Catch a Terrorist”
| September 9, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Guest Speaker: Tom Tierney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cafe Scientifique is a program that brings teens from all walks of life together to explore, discuss, and debate the latest ideas in science and technology.
At this Café Scientifique, we’ll discuss some of the science and engineering behind the technologies that keeps America safe from terrorism, and share thoughts on the societal burdens that the use of these technologies impart.
For more information on Cafe Scientifique New Mexico…
Monome Community Tour
| September 13, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
In the spirit of collaboration, as it is exemplified by artistic endeavor, more than 30 Electronic Musicians from around the world will be participating in a global, relay-style tour, showcasing a diversity of musical usages for the monome controller.
Open Coffee: September Meeting
| September 15, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
Hosted by Flywheel Ventures and Northern New Mexico Connect.
The Santa Fe Open Coffee Club invites anyone interested in startups in New Mexico to meet at the Santa Fe Complex for informal networking with developers, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, and other interested parties. The Open Coffee Club is part of a worldwide network begun in the U.K. as a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet. For more information about the local club, click here. more…
The Real Impact: YouthWorks Showcase
| September 17, 2010 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
See exactly how much can be accomplished in six shorts months by youth, with the right support and opportunity. Presentations from youth leaders on community improvement projects completed in partnership with the City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, NM Youth Conservation Corps, the Santa Fe Community College, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, the Santa Fe Housing Trust, “the Breakfast Club’” YouthWorks culinary training program, catering and café, and local businesses such as the Santa Fe New Mexican and Woodstone Builders.
Come learn about these exciting projects and the first-hand experiences of local youth working hard to show our community new ways about thinking about our youth.
IgniteNM 8 at Santa Fe Complex
| September 22, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
You have an idea, a passion, an experience, so enlighten us, but make it quick!
Submit your topics now for Ignite New Mexico 8 to be held at The Santa Fe Complex, Wednesday, September 22nd at 7 pm. All submissions must be received by Friday, September 12th.
Ignite brings together a wide range of topics in a unique format: each talk is a fun fast five minute presentation (20 slides, 15 seconds per slide).
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