Google Earth 5.0 goes Under the Sea, to Mars, & Back in Time

Google Earth has just launched "Google Earth 5.0", a wonderful new ocean program said to eventually document the entire ocean floor.  It also features historical images and incredible details of Mars.  ...

3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Inn...

Coming soon to your living room; full immersion "virtual reality" extreme sports, action, romance, horror, scifi and shopping"The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens...

A Comprehensive Look at Digg's Recommendation Engine

"It's hard to believe but Digg's latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over two years. Before they developed images functionality, launched visualization tools, released Google, Netvibes, and Myspace widgets, developed Facebook...

New Inbox Visualization for Gmail

The colored labels, which were introduced a couple of weeks ago, kind of revolutionized the approach to inbox and made it all of a sudden a friendly place with a means to quickly find whatever was needed, without having to use the internal search engine built into the client....

A Picture is worth a thousand words

2007 Visualization Challenge Winners from"Science 28 September 2007:Vol. 317. no. 5846, pp. 1858 - 1863DOI: 10.1126/science.317.5846.1858"These images are breathtaking. The charts are exemplary. Here's to good looking."2007 Visualization Challenge WinnersBenjamin Lester"

Cheat Sheet for Where the 2008 Presidential Candidates Stand on the Issues

The full resolution of this chart can be seen here. This data has been remixed from www.2decide.com/table.htm. I reorganized the candidates to be grouped by Democrats and Republicans with the highest rated...

Medical Illustrator David Bolinsky among the world’s greatest thinkers and ...

David Bolinsky, medical illustrator and founder of XVIVO an award-winning medical animation studio, is one of the latest speakers at the annual TED conference. XVIVO teamed up with Harvard to create the one medical animation we’ve all come to know and love, the Inner...

Google's contextual advertising may lead to heart attack

Ok so maybe that headline is a bit dramatic, but just take a close look at this screen capture of Yahoo! News. Google ads work by scanning a page for keywords and placing ads that relate to the keywords in the advertising space. So obviously ‘coffee’ came up numerous...

Why I'm Happy with my U.S. Senators

Visualization of complex or even just large data is one of the real strengths of computers. The Sunlight Foundation's Sunlight Lab brings visualization to bear on how your (tax) money is allocated. If you want your senator to be corrupt as long as he or she gets a hog-sized...

Louisiana Hosts One of World's Largest Supercomputers with New 4.1-terabyte S...

"Massive System at Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) is One of Largest Shared-Memory Computers Available to Private Sector LAFAYETTE, La. (September 18, 2006) — With a single computer acquisition from SGI (OTC: SGID), the Louisiana Immersive Technologies...

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