The UC Berkeley iSchool used to be the School of Library Sciences. Since so much information has come to be stored and retrieved using computers/the internet, many library science schools have changed to Schools of Information. One question this switch raises is — will databases replace card catalogs, search engines replace librarians, digital storage replace [...]
Wattzon released an API that allows you to get profile data and data from the Embodied Energy Database (EED, http://www.wattzon.com/stuff). I’m planning to use this as part of my final project for the class I’m taking on mashups.
Wattzon and Wesabe are working together. From the Wattzon blog post from 02/09/09: Wesabe is a free, online [...]
Free, open source visual recognition system created and made available by reactable. We used this with our final TUI project, attaching the identification markers to the bottom of gears. Set on a clear table surface, these markers were recognized by a camera from below. The markers worked quite well and were very popular among classmates’ [...]
We used Max MSP, visual programming, to code the music-control parts of our TUI class project. It was great, easy to learn the basics, and capable of doing much more, I’m sure, with a little more knowledge/experience.
These are a few resources that were helpful in making our code from Processing, Arduino, and Max to work [...]
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Broad Survey of Day Laborers Finds High Level of Injuries and Pay Violations
By Steven Greenhouse
Published: January 22, 2006
The first nationwide study on day laborers has found that such workers are a nationwide phenomenon, with 117,600 people gathering at more than 500 hiring sites to look for work on a typical day.
The survey found that three-fourths [...]
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Invisible to Most, Women Line Up for Day Labor
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: August 15, 2005
The women are not noticed by the weekday morning crowds that rush past Eighth Avenue and 37th Street, in the heart of Manhattans fashion district. They arrive in twos and threes after 8 a.m., shrinking against the buildings on both sides of [...]
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Day Laborers Are Easy Prey in New Orleans
By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: February 16, 2009
Hispanic laborers, known for carrying large amounts of cash, are now New Orleans muggers’ prey of choice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/us/16hispanic.html