NATIW is a Think Tank focusing on information systems and commu- nication technologies. It aims at anticipating technological evolution and identifying emerging needs and opportunities in the information society.
NATIW is a project of Nomades Ateliers, which has been active in the field of information technologies and communication since 1989. Nomades always promoted the broadening of competences through interdisciplinary exchange and knowledge sharing.
NATIW’s activity is targeted at professionals willing to position themselves ahead of the market as well as anyone interested in assessing the impact and potential of information technologies in their fields.
NATIW offers consulting services as well as workshops & seminars with experts from various fields ranging from computer science to economics, passing by architecture, humanities and communication.
NATIW’s workshops and seminars are aimed at professionals willing to consolidate their technological and strategical understanding of new technologies and learn more about their impact on the economy and society.
Robert CAILLIAU will take the place Bernd Pollermann who cannot attend the seminar for personal reason.
Robert Cailliau is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web. In 1990, he propose, with Tim Berners-Lee, a hypertext system for access to the CERN documentation. This lead to the World-Wide Web. Tim had a prototype on NeXTStep. They got together to develop and promote this software. The name «world-wide web» was coined during that period (May 1990).
We are also glad to announce the participation of Bernhard SEEFELD of the Google Geo team
Bernhard SEEFELD is a software engineer at Google and working in the Geo team that is responsible for products like Google Maps and Google Earth. He joined Google through the acquisition of Endoxon December 2006.
Robert CAILLIAU will take the place Bernd Pollermann who cannot attend the seminar for personal reason.
Robert Cailliau is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web. In 1990, he propose, with Tim Berners-Lee, a hypertext system for access to the CERN documentation. This lead to the World-Wide Web. Tim had a prototype on NeXTStep. They got together to develop and promote this software. The name «world-wide web» was coined during that period (May 1990).
We are also glad to announce the participation of Bernhard SEEFELD of the Google Geo team
Bernhard SEEFELD is a software engineer at Google and working in the Geo team that is responsible for products like Google Maps and Google Earth. He joined Google through the acquisition of Endoxon December 2006.
Professor Jeffrey Huang, who will speak at the NATIW seminar on April 20, is currently looking at the design of future banking prototypes in his EPFL studio. According to him it’s “not enough to have a few loose links between a Web site and a physical presence. The kind of convergence I’m talking about requires a new approach to designing the spaces in which business is conducted, from stores to offices to factories to classrooms. It requires a new kind of business architecture.”
Putting theory into practice he designed the Swisshouse, a radical new type of consulate located both in Boston and on the internet.
His Harvard Business Review article is available here.
Using the same technology as the iPhone “reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. It was mainly designed as a toolkit for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces. This framework has been developed by Martin Kaltenbrunner and Ross Bencina at the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain as part of the the reactable project, a novel electro-acoustic music instrument with a tangible user interface.” for more see http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?software
L’Extremadure mise sur une version de GNU/Linux developpée localement pour booster l’éducation et l’économie de cette région parmis les plus pauvre d’Europe.
L’Extremadure mise sur une version de GNU/Linux developpée localement pour booster l’éducation et l’économie de cette région parmis les plus pauvre d’Europe.
NATIW: There is a debate about the impact of the web 2.0 in the enterprise. Some speak about Enterprise 2.0 and believe that the new web technology will change the work place by empowering employees and enhancing collaboration.Others believe that web technologies are not powerful enough to disrupt the existing hierarchical structures. What is your stake on that debate?(more…)
Tim Berners-Lee calls for a global vision of the web with creation of a multidisciplinay center for Web research: the Web Science Initiative (WSRI)
“The Web is basically a web of people. It’s a way that social people interact,” Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the basic software of the Web and is director of the World Wide Web Consortium standards group, said. “Because it’s something we created, we have a duty to make it better.”
“Suppose among all the beautiful, wonderful things it’s created, it also creates something horrible?”.
