Mai 2011 - Metalab-announce - Metalab Mailing Listen

Vormerken: Sa 4 Juni - Grillerei auf der Donauinsel
by Peter Kuhm 27 Mai '11

27 Mai '11

--> http://metalab.at/wiki/Grillen Am Sa 4. Juni auf #15, Steinspornbrücke ab 13:00 wie beim vergangenen Mal. Grillkohle und Essen selbst mitbringen Anfahrt: U2 Rathaus - Praterstern - U1 Kaisermühlen VIC - 91a Roter Hiasl (Richtung Ölhafen). Über die Steinspornbrücke und dann ca 300m links [Lageplan] Ich bin dabei: [...]

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reminder : :metalab : : 30.5.2011 at 21h : . : . : Syrian architect: Kinda Alsayed on Activism and Counter-Activism: Behavioural Dynamics in Cyberspace
by Stefanie Wuschitz 25 Mai '11

25 Mai '11

http://metalab.at/wiki/Activism_and_Counter-Activism *miss baltazar's lab this time for all genders:* Activism and Counter-ActivismBehavioural Dynamics in Cyberspace *When/Where: *Mon *2011-05-30, 21:00* at the Metalab<http://metalab.at/wiki/Lage> main room*Lecturer:**Kinda Al Sayed* is from Syria, she is working as an architect in London and has closely followed the political changes in Syria. MORE INFO ON: http://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/blogDE/?p=829 The exercise of democracy in societies has always been the product that tradeoffs between two forces; emergent bottom up expressions of individual interests and top down decisions made by authorities. This equation maybe imbalanced in systems where power and decision-making is exercised by the authority rather than by the people. In authoritarian regimes, when people make attempts to exercise their democratic rights they will be faced by coercion for which media machinery and communication tools are either devoted to mislead the public or disabled to avoid exposing authoritarian actions. This form of suppression of media machinery is only maintained through having control over the centralized form of media. The despotic enforcement of media control has been evidently busted throughout the Arab spring phenomena as an effect of decentralizing and personalizing media tools. This new instrumentalization of the media by the public allowed individual’s emission of information by exploiting all the affordances of the WWW medium. Social media networks have particularly contributed to a great extent to the dismantling of authorities’ suppressive activity. Within this process new forms of emergent behaviors have evolved as a by-product of togetherness in cyber space that would never have been enabled in the physical space. Different types of behavioral dynamics were identified within the flow of messaging between anonymous activists raising individual’s awareness towards communal values and disrupting activities exercised by counter-activism machinery. Time as a fundamental component of the medium’s affordances started playing an essential role in the regulation of action-reaction dynamics within the messaging flow. In this way the medium became the message by means of time and the social networking interface was made value-laden by means of its structure that embraces different affordances towards time and space. The partitioning of space and time in these interfaces together with the network structure that builds up between the different partitions left a huge impact on the influence boundaries of the message. This is where time as a construct of cyberspace starts to build a reciprocal relationship with time in the physical space. Through this reciprocal relationship differences can be identified between the affordances of Physical and Virtual spaces towards the rise of social organizations. The phenomenon of twitter journalism casts a very substantial impact on individuals’ actions and reactions due to its brief and instant messaging power. Where there are benefits to such medium of communication there are also risks that are posed by control and distortion of information. The persistence and spreading of the Arab spring phenomena and the partial success of it suggests that emergent self-driven reporting activity will eventually prevail. This suggestion is reasoned by the simple realism that the powers to control its emergence and contain its spreading won’t be affordable once passed a certain threshold.

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Talk: Sentiment Analysis - 26.05.2011
by Amir Hassan 24 Mai '11

24 Mai '11

Hey, Rober Zinkov (from Los Angeles) dropped by the Metalab yesterday and told me about the talk he is going to give at the WU. It's about sentiment analysis in text data, and sounds really interesting. So if you want to know how emotions are extracted from your twitter posts for fun and profit: Abstract: Over the last decade, researchers have discovered that text can be analyzed for its emotion content. Opinions can be readily extracted from documents about various topics and products. This presentation will cover the various smaller tasks involved in performing sentiment analysis. This will include extraction patterns, both unsupervised and feature-based learning methods. I will cover how sentiment dictionaries are built and sentiment is seeded. I will also discuss how sentiment analysis interacts with other existing natural language processing systems such as entity extractors and summarization algorithms. This talk will assume basic familiarity with machine learning and natural language processing algorithms. It will be in the Computer Lab on the 5th floor of the Statistics Building at the Business School. It will be on 26/5/2011 at 16:00. Everyone is welcome to go. Institut für Statistik und Mathematik WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) Augasse 2-6 1090 Wien Austria

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Heute Fr 13.5., 20 Uhr: Einführung Metallurgie und Schweissen
by Peter Kuhm 13 Mai '11

13 Mai '11

Dieser erste Teil vermittelt den notwendigen theoretischen Unterbau. Ein Workshop mit Profi Oliver Gerstbauer. Mehr: http://metalab.at/wiki/Metallurgie_und_Schweiss-Workshop -- http://metalab.at - 222m² Raum im Herzen Wiens für technologisch-kreative Projekte, Veranstaltungen, Software, Hardware, Essen & mehr... http://log.metalab.at/ Schnappschüsse aus dem täglichen Leben rund ums Lab

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Activism and Counter-Activism Behavioural Dynamics in Cyberspace
by Stefanie Wuschitz 09 Mai '11

09 Mai '11

Liebes Metalab, Eine alte Freundin von mir, *Kinda Al_Sayed,* kommt aus Syrien. Sie arbeitet als Architektin in London und hat sich intensiv mit den aktuellen politischen Veränderungen in Syrien beschäftigt. Kinda wird am 30. Mai um 21h einen Vortrag im Metalab halten. Ich hoff, ihr habt Zeit zu kommen und mit zu diskutieren. *Activism and Counter-Activism Behavioural Dynamics in Cyberspace* The exercise of democracy in societies has always been the product that tradeoffs between two forces; emergent bottom up expressions of individual interests and top down decisions made by authorities. This equation maybe imbalanced in systems where power and decision-making is exercised by the authority rather than by the people. In authoritarian regimes, when people make attempts to exercise their democratic rights they will be faced by coercion for which media machinery and communication tools are either devoted to mislead the public or disabled to avoid exposing authoritarian actions. This form of suppression of media machinery is only maintained through having control over the centralized form of media. The despotic enforcement of media control has been evidently busted throughout the Arab spring phenomena as an effect of decentralizing and personalizing media tools. This new instrumentalization of the media by the public allowed individual’s emission of information by exploiting all the affordances of the WWW medium. Social media networks have particularly contributed to a great extent to the dismantling of authorities’ suppressive activity. Within this process new forms of emergent behaviors have evolved as a by-product of togetherness in cyber space that would never have been enabled in the physical space. Different types of behavioral dynamics were identified within the flow of messaging between anonymous activists raising individual’s awareness towards communal values and disrupting activities exercised by counter-activism machinery. Time as a fundamental component of the medium’s affordances started playing an essential role in the regulation of action-reaction dynamics within the messaging flow. In this way the medium became the message by means of time and the social networking interface was made value-laden by means of its structure that embraces different affordances towards time and space. The partitioning of space and time in these interfaces together with the network structure that builds up between the different partitions left a huge impact on the influence boundaries of the message. This is where time as a construct of cyberspace starts to build a reciprocal relationship with time in the physical space. Through this reciprocal relationship differences can be identified between the affordances of Physical and Virtual spaces towards the rise of social organizations. The phenomenon of twitter journalism casts a very substantial impact on individuals’ actions and reactions due to its brief and instant messaging power. Where there are benefits to such medium of communication there are also risks that are posed by control and distortion of information. The persistence and spreading of the Arab spring phenomena and the partial success of it suggests that emergent self-driven reporting activity will eventually prevail. This suggestion is reasoned by the simple realism that the powers to control its emergence and contain its spreading won’t be affordable once passed a certain threshold. Alles Liebe! Stefanie

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Fr 6.5. Metaday #42 - Thomas Bugnyar: Evolution des Gehirns - Denken bei Tieren
by Peter Kuhm 01 Mai '11

01 Mai '11

--> http://metalab.at/wiki/Metaday_42 Einmal im Monat lädt das Metalab Vortragende aus aller Welt ein, bei uns von ihren Projekten und Ideen zu erzählen. Anschließend gibt es Platz für Lightning Talks, wo Besucher aktuelle Unternehmungen und Vorhaben vorstellen können, sowie ein Buffet und gemütliches Ambiente für Diskussion und Austausch. Das Metalab lädt herzlich zum Metaday #42 am Freitag, den 6. Mai 2011, 19:30 (Beginn 20:00) im Metalab, Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 Wien – Eintritt frei http://metalab.at/wiki/Lage == Evolution des Gehirns: Denken bei Tieren == Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bugnyar • Department für Kognitionsbiologie, Universität Wien http://cogbio.univie.ac.at/ • Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle für Ethologie, Grünau http://www.klf.ac.at/Staff/bugnyar.htm Der biologische Ansatz zur Intelligenzforschung geht davon aus, dass kognitive Fähigkeiten, wie andere körperliche Funktionen, eine Anpassung an bestimmte sozio-ökologische Lebens- umstände darstellen. ‘Intelligenz’ ist somit nicht rein auf den Menschen beschränkt, sondern findet sich in unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen und Abstufungen im Tierreich. In diesem Vortrag werden die gängigsten Theorien zur Evolution von (höherer) Kognition vorgestellt und anhand von ausgewählten Beispielen diskutiert. Ein besonderer Augenmerk wird hierbei auf die konvergente Evolution von Denkleistungen zwischen entfernt verwandten Arten wie zum Beispiel Primaten und Rabenvögel gelegt, da dies Rückschlüsse auf die zugrunde liegenden Selektionsdrücke erlaubt. Zur Person: Dr. Thomas Bugnyar ist Experte im Bereich der sozialen Kognitionsforschung und war einer der ersten Forscher, der kognitive Fähigkeiten im Feld und Labor untersuchte. Seit Oktober 2009 ist er Vertragsprofessor für Kognitive Ethologie am Department für Neurobiologie und Kognitionsforschung der Universität Wien. [Mehr…] Forschungsschwerpunkte: * Evolution von Intelligenz * Kognitive Anforderungen des Soziallebens (soziale Intelligenz) * Höhere kognitive Fähigkeiten bei Vögeln == Lightning Talks == Lightning Talks sind Kurzvorträge. Hier sollen aktuelle Ideen, Projekte, und vor allem Work-in-Progress vorgestellt werden. (Selbst auf der Wiki-Seite eintragen!) Die Dauer der Vorträge ist auf 5 Minuten begrenzt. == Afterparty == Buffet, Wein und Ambient/Downtempo Chillout Musik Der Eintritt ist wie immer frei. -- http://metalab.at - 222m² Raum im Herzen Wiens für technologisch-kreative Projekte, Veranstaltungen, Software, Hardware, Essen & mehr... http://log.metalab.at/ Schnappschüsse aus dem täglichen Leben rund ums Lab

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