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Posted April 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
Below you will find out what is currently happening or about to happen at the Institute
NMRI Technologies
Posted April 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
The Institute has staff and partners who are expert in a wide range of media and information technologies, as well as earth science, geography, sociology, and marine science.
The New Media Research Institute has wide-ranging interests in the theories and applications of information technology in education. We are particularly interested in the promise of geographic information systems (GIS) and in the future role of digital libraries. Below is a partial list of our current interests.
- Data access software applications for education
- Data visualization theories and application development
- Data metadata and server-side and middleware issues
- Multicasting in education
- Digital library organization
- Smart clients for digital library users
- Personal digital collections
- Sharable personal digital libraries
- 3- and 4D displays of information
- Data fusion between raster and vector data sources
- Distributed delivery systems
- Open access publishing informatics and sociology
- Social organization of digital communities
NMRI Partners
Posted April 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
The Institute works closely with scientists, researchers, and educators at several institutions, adding value to their work and adding their insights to the efforts of the Institute.
NMRI Projects
Posted April 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
The Research Institute partners with major university and government research efforts to develop advanced informatics solutions for education and public use. The list of active projects is in the menu above (on the right).
People at the Institute
Posted April 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
The New Media Research Institute is a collaboration between in-house staff, the very active board of directors at the New Media Studio, and a constellation of partnering scientists, graphic artists, and media professionals.
Here is our current staff:Studio Staff
DIAL PROJECT MAIN PAGE
Posted March 30th, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
Welcome to the DIAL project!
NOTE: If you are interested in obtaining a license to the DIAL plugin to Adobe Director, please send an email to the Project PI (below). This license is free for the authoring and distribution of applications that are distributed without cost for educational purposes.
One this site we will be blogging and commenting and basically providing all the information you need to learn if DIAL data-rich multimedia authoring is right for your needs.
DIAL IS:
DigitalOcean Panel at the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, UNESCO, Paris
Posted April 16th, 2010 by Bruce CaronThe DigitalOcean Consortium will be presenting a panel at the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: Ensuring Survival, Preserving Life, and Improving Governance, May 3-7, 2010, at UNESCO in Paris.
This is a major opportunity to showcase how the DigitalOcean software and team can help improve governance by building rapid, effective communication fabrics between scientists and ocean stakeholders and planners.
A New VISION for the Research Institute!
Posted September 9th, 2009 by Bruce CaronIn August, 2009, The Instititute received word that the Phase II STTR project, Volumetric Imaging for Science Instruction of an Open Nature, has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Building a Web 2.5 social network and community
Posted December 2nd, 2008 by Bruce CaronThe Research Institute was given a contract from UCSB to help manage the planning phase of a proposal to the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This proposal, DigitalOcean, involves the development of a dedicated social network (ECOSNet) linked to other Web 2.0 services, such as Flickr and Google Ocean, and building a strong community of users who will provide content for the system.
Client Side Technology Infusion Working Group
Posted September 27th, 2007 by Bruce CaronThe Client Side Technology Infusion Working Group is looking at issues of data access, analysis, and display in the world outside the Internet browser environment. Today, as it was ten years ago, probably 95% of the scientists who use NASA/NOAA (etc.) data sets do so with commercial software products such as Matlab, IDL, ENVI, or ARCgis.
