Tag: Center for Design Informatics

  • Science & Tech

    The skin’s the thing for conserving a building’s energy

    It has been estimated that a third of the world’s energy is consumed by buildings, a third by transportation, and a third by industry. With gasoline prices rising and electrical blackouts plaguing California and threatening the rest of the country, conserving energy in all areas seems more and more of a necessity. That’s why a…

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  • Science & Tech

    What constitutes “community” online?

    How do we create online communities? Six panelists at the 2000 Harvard Internet and Society Conference struggled with the question. “Real world communities are ever so simple to create,” said Clement Mok, chief communications officer at Sapient. He attributes this to the “infinite bandwidth” of face-to-face contact, something online communities continually try to recreate. “We…

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  • Science & Tech

    Internet revolutionizing way designers (and others) work

    Professor Spiro Pollalis, who serves as director of the Center for Design Informatics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, estimates Internet-based project management networks are now being utilized by as many as 10 percent of architectural design firms, and those numbers are expected to mushroom in the years ahead. “We see the Internet as…

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