When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission »

Palo Alto, Calif.
STEVE WOZNIAK built the original Apple I to share with his friends at the Homebrew Computer Club, but it was his business partner Steve Jobs who had the insight that there might be a market for such a contraption. Indeed, for decades, Silicon Valley has been defined by the tension between the technologist’s [...]

PLAYING WITH BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES »

Operating machines or playing videogames just with our thoughts is not science fiction anymore. And Anton Nijholt (see photo on the left), full professor of computer science at the University of Twente, is one of the researchers working at building so called brain-computer interfaces for these purposes.
At CHI 2008, he is one of the organizers [...]

What is Mobile Weekend? »

That’s a great question. Mobile weekend follows in the tradition of Startup Weekend. I was lucky enough to have participated in Startup Weekend Toronto and Facebook Weekend Beta (and to have been one of the organizers). We’ve thought for a long time that Mobile would be a great forum for such an event. Here, in [...]

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