Attending the Game Developers Conference | February 28-March 4, 2011 | Moscone Convention Center | San Francisco, California

I will be attending some of the tutorial sessions and summits. Here is more info on this conference:

Game Developers Conference | February 28-March 4, 2011 | Moscone Convention Center | San Francisco, California

HTML 5 Basics - 3 (Pulsating Rotating Yin-Yang symbol)

This time, the yin-yang symbol expands and contracts while rotating. (Requires browser that supports HTML 5.)

Here is the link to the Javascript source code for this.

HTML 5 Basics - 2 (Rotating Yin-Yang symbol)

This time, the yin-yang symbol is animated. (Requires browser that supports HTML 5.)

Here is the link to the Javascript source code for this.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Salon with Nathan Myhrvold

Attended the FourPeaks event "Innovation & Entrepreneurship Salon with Nathan Myhrvold" at UW today. Presentation about his new book on modernist cousine, followed by discussion on entrepreneurship and education. Some things that stuck in my mind:

"The tuition in life is largely failure" (meaning that failure is the tuition you pay for learning in life)

"Sports and music prodigies get passionate advocacy to grow while academic prodigies don't"

One of the main contributors to the Wright brothers' success in achieving flight was that they had created a wind tunnel where they could test various designs without having to risk their lives.

Also, copying from nature is usually a good idea, but in case of aeroplanes, that idea did not work too well.

Good overview article on Educational Games

Educational Games

Want Value From Social? Add Structure - Tom Davenport - Harvard Business Review

The trend towards structured / reliable / secure social media:

Want Value From Social? Add Structure - Tom Davenport - Harvard Business Review

HTML 5 Basics - 1 (Yin-Yang symbol)

Starting to create some simple samples / tutorials for HTML 5. I will start with something simple and keep making it more complex as I go. Let us see where it goes.

Here is a Yin-Yang symbol drawn using HTML 5. (Requires browser that supports HTML 5.)

Here is the link to the Javascript source code for this.

Visualizing Scientific Collaboration

Map of scientific collaborations between geographic locations - from 2005 - 2009. An interesting way to visualize the "scientific cortex".

Visualizing Scientific Collaboration