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Marketplace Tech for Monday, July 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014

Marketplace Tech for Monday, July 21, 2014

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With the online sports network ESPN 3 will carried a $10 million gaming contest in Seattle, Leoneda Inge takes a look at competitive gaming hitting the big time. Then, Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services, talks about the Apple IBM partnership. Plus, Sep Kamvar, LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media lab, stops by to talk about 100 maps that show only one thing.

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Mapping the city, statistic by statistic

Jul 21, 2014
The map, one of the central elements of navigation, has expanded in capability since the form has been translated to digital. Case in point, the MIT Media Lab’s “You Are Here” project is a collection of maps that visualize a variety of datasets over space. Things from bike accidents to coffee shops, graffiti reports, and […]

With the online sports network ESPN 3 will carried a $10 million gaming contest in Seattle, Leoneda Inge takes a look at competitive gaming hitting the big time. Then, Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services, talks about the Apple IBM partnership. Plus, Sep Kamvar, LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media lab, stops by to talk about 100 maps that show only one thing.

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