TED finally began on March 17 in the evening 6 p.m. here in Vancouver, BC.  At $7,500 per seat , it's outpriced the majority, including ...

" Generation C " is not a new innovation - it has been around since 2004 . In 2012, Zoe Fox's Forget Generation Y: 18- to...

I'm really glad I attended yesterday's screening of Google and the World Brain , hosted by UBC Continuing Studies @ UBC Robson Squa...

An American Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is potentially drawing the line in the ...

During my trip to the University of T oronto, I had the opportunity to visit the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library .  As the largest repos...

I'm moving out of my usual technology focus for something quite different. As a librarian, my work and passion involves both fiction and...

Popular media has focused much attention on context-awareness media technology. In the May 2013 issue of Wired Magazine , its feature ar...

Having recently completed a self-directed studies research project on context-awareness media in education with Dr. David Vogt , have accumu...

Although still in its embryonic stages of use in libraries, museums, and art galleries, augmented reality has really taken off in the en...

Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research may bring 3D printing and the Internet of Things together without the limitations of RFID or visual...

Ron Deibert conducts some of the most provoking and controversial research around today in academica. His area of study extends beyond the...

The  Vancouver Police Museum , the oldest police museum in North America, is one of my favourite visits in the city of Vancouver, BC.   ...

Image courtesy: University of Idaho Library Though difficult to imagine, the concept of the modern library with open stacks fully flushe...

3D Printing at Rodgers Library   Like a computer printer, a 3D printer processes directions from your computer and “prints out” those i...

The Horizon Report 2012 had accurately forecas t that gesture-based computing would be an important technology to watch out for.   Altho...