This side event will launch an initiative to establish a common spatial data framework for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning, linking a wide range of relevant data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
The book itself gives rise to temporal and spatial issues of a more immediate kind.
How it works:Ones and zeroes of digital data are first converted into checkerboard "pages"of bright and dark pixels using a liquid-crystal panel called a spatial light modulator.
Better spatial visualization is a must for dozens of professions: surgeons training for arthroscopic procedures, drug researchers modeling how complex proteins fold in upon themselves, petroleum geologists mapping miles-deep oilfields.
"It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand that its arm is on it not on the other side of the mirror, " Justin Hart, the PhD student leading the research told BBC News.
The work starts with discussions focused on client objectives -- making a visual statement, drawing a particular kind of traffic, solving a spatial problem -- and moves into the design phase, rendering two or three different ideas.
The sound experience is further enhanced by Philips' Virtual Surround Sound technology and advanced spatial algorithms that produce a rich and immersive audio experience from one source.
ENGADGET: Philips showcases its 2013 Fidelio audio lineup at CES, we go eyes-on
The enhanced spatial audio effect provides a new dimension of presence and depth while maintaining the integrity of the source mix and ensuring audio is always appropriate to the source material.
ENGADGET: Denon outs 2009 line of Blu-ray players, AV receivers and headphones
The PURE mode processes audio in the truest of forms while the VQ (V-MODA eQualizer) mode adds a slight spatial 3D soundstage, tightened bass and increased treble attack that invigorates an all-around sensory experience.
ENGADGET: V-Moda VAMP for the iPhone: an analog converter and headphone amp with a $650 pricetag
The rake of the auditorium seating is just as generous, and the stained-plywood walls cut into loosely rearranged jigsaw pieces shade pleasantly from honey hues at the back to dark mahogany at the stage's edge, a playful spatial echo of the houselights dimming.
WSJ: Frank Gehry | Pershing Square Signature Center | By Julie V. Iovine
Snyder, by contrast, wants to localize the Holocaust, to make it part of a geographic and spatial history.
Last October Esri acquired SpotOn, a geo-spatial business intelligence software developer which worked with IBM Cognos to provide customers with embedded maps in their reports.
FORBES: Big Geographic Data -- From Tokyo Retailers to Flood Zones
His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.
The team told him to use "motor" imagery like a tennis match to indicate "yes" and "spatial" imagery like thinking about roaming the streets for a "no".
Zebra encodes each hogel onto a laser beam using a high-resolution spatial light modulator.
Instead of poring over pages of reports if I can see the data in bar charts, line graphs, pie charts or integrated with geo-spatial tools, I can make a lot more sense of it.
Another is that the games might provide a way of rapidly improving spatial ability in people such as drivers and soldiers.
Beginning this year, the city will rely heavily on a test that mostly assesses spatial thinking skills and uses almost no words or language.
Last week, the National Ocean Council brought together more than 500 Federal, state, tribal, and local government representatives, indigenous community leaders, and other stakeholders and members of the public from across the country for a National Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) Workshop in Washington, DC.
WHITEHOUSE: Energy and Environment Latest News | The White House
In analytics terms, the graffiti could have produced a text analysis to accompany the spatial analytics of encampment movements.
Kamikihi-to, a Kampo medicine, ameliorates impairment of spatial memory in rats.
The Final Recommendations prioritize actions for the NOC to pursue, and call for a flexible framework for coastal and marine spatial planning to address conservation, economic activity, user conflict, and sustainable use of the ocean, our coasts and the Great Lakes.
WHITEHOUSE: Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force Announced | The White House
People who were asked to reflect on their many past successes or a specific failure scored roughly 10% better on tests of mathematical ability, as well as verbal, spatial, and abstract reasoning, than those who reflected on either many past failures or a single specific success.
FORBES: Yesterday Influences Your Performance Today in Surprising Ways
Geo-spatial visualizations will be designed and delivered in the context of a business process.
FORBES: SAP Partnership with Google Maps Indicates a New Openness
It recognizes that the right to culture in everyday life is fundamentally political and requires a significant degree of autonomy: legal, juridical and spatial.
Robert Venturi's "gentle manifesto, " published as "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" in 1966, called for a reconsideration of the lessons of history and the subtleties of spatial relationships and enriching ornament of the past.
Second, cyberspace turns out to have all kinds of novel spatial properties (see the new book, Cyberspace and Security: A Fundamentally New Approach, by Victor Sheymov, excerpted in this comment for more on this), but three-dimensionality is not among them.
FORBES: Famo.us Cracks The Secret Of High-Performance Apps By Tapping Another Dimension
We certainly won't argue the value of Natal for gaming or even manipulating content in a home theater setup like we've seen with Toshiba's Spatial Motion Interface, but for the office, incredible value... really?
ENGADGET: Bill Gates: Natal for Windows coming to an office near you
应用推荐