GIS Cloud – the Web-Based Geographic Information System
GIScloud is the first fully featured Geographic Information System in the cloud. The team of developers from Zagreb (Marko Santic and Dino Ravnic) will present the system and discuss its technical features, including Flash vector tiling, and the “freemium” business model.
The discussion will center around future collaborations with Santa Fe Complex and the WPI Santa Fe Project Center using GIScloud as a potential platform for advanced planning applications.
Innovative Technologies to Support Urban Planning
A professional education workshop presented by the Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization.
Fabio Carrera and Stephen Guerin will present a number of Santa Fe Complex projects which use innovative technologies to support urban planning activities, with a specific focus on transportation-related GIS applications, sensors, and citizen participation via the use of ‘smart’ phones.
RSVP to Keith Wilson if you plan to attend.
More about the Santa Fe MPO here….
“Dynamics, Emergent Computation, and Evolution in Cellular Automata”
WedTech@theComplex
“Dynamics, Emergent Computation, and Evolution in Cellular Automata”: an overview by Wim Hordijk
The Evolving Cellular Automata (EvCA) project provides a framework for studying the relations among dynamics, emergent computation, and evolution in decentralized spatially extended systems. more…
THATCamp Pre-Conference Dialogue
In anticipation of THATCamp New Mexico (October 2-3), Santa Fe Complex will host a free-form discussion for people who will be participating—or who haven’t made up their minds yet.
IgniteNM 8 at Santa Fe Complex
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).
The Real Impact: YouthWorks Showcase
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.
The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, A Torch For Peace
Running time is 92 minutes. Teri will make a short introduction, and answer questions after the film. more…WedTech@sf_x: SimTable’s Entrepreneurial Process
Chas Curtis, CEO of SimTable, will present the status of the company, its fire training application, and the process that lead to funding this year through the Los Alamos Venture Acceleration Fund.
Open Coffee: September Meeting
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.
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Cafe Scientifique: “Eternal Vigilance: How to Catch a Terrorist”
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…
e here now: Adding Emotional Presence to Digital Interactions
Project Review and Call for Collaboration
Principal Investigators: Rob and Chris Shaw
Rob and Chris Shaw will present their work to date on “e here now” — a communications engine integrating facial expression into video and three dimensional digital social interactions.
Rob and Chris are soliciting input from technologists and content creators into the objectives and technical means of the project.
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New Mexico Game Jam
The Rio Grande chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is holding the second annual NM Game Jam from August 13th to August 15th, 2010. This year, the Game Jam will expand beyond the borders of Albuquerque to include sites in Santa Fe and Las Cruces, allowing game developers from throughout the state to participate.
Joshua Thorp
Joshua has many years of practical experience in the field of complexity science and agent-based modeling. He holds a degree in computer science with a concentration in mathematics from the Cornell University School of Engineering. more…
Steve Smith
Steve Smith is founder and President of Los Alamos Visualization Associates (LAVA), a small systems development and consultancy firm specializing in visualization of complex systems but with branches specializing in Visual Analytics, Immersive Systems, Holographics, and Musification of Data. Steve retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 2008 after 27 years of service. more…
Orlando Leibovitz
Orlando Leibovitz is a self taught painter and photographer. His most recent series Painted Physics is composed of nine stylized portraits of famous physicists at the moment of insight. The physicists are shown in their youth and the paintings contain references to their scientific discoveries. In October 2010 Painted Physics will be on display at The American Center For Physics in College Park, Maryland. more…
Irene Lee
Irene’s interest is exploring the use of new technologies, from agent based modeling to network visualization, as tools to teach and learn about computational thinking and complex adaptive systems. more…
Stephen Guerin
Steve is the inspiration behind the Santa Fe Complex and spends a significant percentage of his time volunteering on its behalf as a spokesperson, organizer, and developer of the intern program. more…
Owen Densmore
Owen Densmore has more thirty years of experience in the computer industry, during which he worked with three of the industry’s most innovative companies: Xerox, Apple, and Sun Microsystems. His work spans the spectrum from language systems to networked multimedia to hardware and software, and he holds nine patents in various areas of computing. more…
Ed Angel
Ed Angel is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the first UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow. He has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and the University of Rochester and has held visiting positions in Sweden, U.K., India, Venezuela, and Ecuador. more…
Data Sharing for New Mexico Pottery Typologies
A Santa Fe Complex WedTech talk with Dr. Eric Blinman, Director, Office of Archaeological Studies New Mexico.
The study of ancient Southwestern pottery should be simple. Someone makes a pot, it breaks, an archaeologist picks up the sherds, sorts and counts them, and writes up a report. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) things aren’t that simple. more…
Musical Visions
Rob Shaw, Woody Vasulka and Steina create musical visions enabling us to simultaneously see and hear music. The facade and the interior of the Complex will be transformed by sound and light into a immersive spectacle of the senses.
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.
Stuart Kauffman: “Res Extensa, Res Potentia And The Poised Realm”
Please join us for a short philosophical discourse with Stuart Kauffman, eminent theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher.
“We have lived with scientific “monism” since Newton. Monism is the view, shared by virtually all scientists, that the world is made of one kind of “stuff,” the Actual world of matter and energy and with some question marks, space and time and information.
There are very good grounds to accept monism, and it has an ancient history. No less an ancient philosopher Empedocles said, “What is real in the universe is what is actual.”
Aristotle was less sure, he toyed with the idea that both the Actual and the Possible were “Real.” He called the Possible “potentia” and meant a variety of things by Potentia. And no less a mathematician and philosopher than Alfred North Whitehead, he of Principia Mathematica in the early 20th Century, written with Bertrand Russell, moved on to think of both Actuals and Possibles as “real”, or “ontologically real”, meaning two kinds of “stuff,” Actuals and Possibles in the universe.
I’m beginning, to my surprise to think Aristotle and Whitehead may have been right.
If so, the implications are radical.
I’m beginning to think of a dualism, not the Res Extensa and Res Cogitans of Descartes, but a new Res Extensa and Res Potentia.”
Continue reading Stuart’s essay at at NPR’s 13.7 blog on science and culture with follow-on discussion here.
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