Des*Syn
ALife ALife X
BEACON(Bio- Evolutionary Advanced Concepts)
BEACON
Biobot Mission BIOBOT
C-IQ(Collaborative Intelligence) C-IQ
ESAC ESAC
MetaVu MetaVu
Provocateurs
Sponsors
Links
Home
 

Links
Overviews of two complementary books that describe the intellectual foundation for the methods of DE•SYNlab and the role of design thinking in scientific discovery and technology innovation. Both explore parallels between evolution in nature and the nature of intelligence.

If Microbes begat Mind
from origins of life to emergence of intelligence

What Daedalus told Darwin
about Darwin’s dilemma & designing intelligence

Collaborative IQ & Wiki Links
Concept Maps
Dotnet Junkies — Knowledge Mgt + Collaboration
Drupal Platform for Open Source Content Management

Enterprise Innovation — Spigit
Enterprise Social Media — Awareness Networks

Envisioning Information — Edward Tuffte

Envisioning Information — Many Eyes (IBM)

Google Sites
Groupscope Visual Network Analysis
Groupware — TikiWiki
Jive Software
Learning Network — Collaboration Tools
MediaWiki, SW of wikipedia

Moodle for online learning communities
Neighborhood America
Network World
Wikia

WikkaWiki — a PHP/MySQL wiki engine

Design (Science & Synergetics)
Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Design Science Lab
Buckminster Fuller on Guinea Pig B
frog design
IDEO
Mind Mapping SW
Siggraph

SMARTlab Digital Media Institute

Earth Overview
Gateway to Astronaut Photography

Environment — Green Tech
Environmentalism — Sierra Club’s Carl Pope
Green TechnoLog
Green Tech Forum

Green Tech Org

Green Tech World

Integrated Farming & Waste Management
Khosla Ventures

The PAX Group

TMCnet Green

Environment — Information & Action
Al Gore — The Climate Project

Carbon Fund

Conservation International

David Suzuki Foundation
Earthjustice

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth International

Google Earth

Google.org

Greenpeace
Millennium Campaign
National Audubon Society

National Resources Defense Council

The Natural Step

Nature Conservancy

Ogle Earth Links on Google Earth
PlaNetwork

Sierra Club

Trust for Public Land

Whole Planet Foundation

Wiser Earth Web Portal

World Changing

World Wildlife Fund

Environment — Research    
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Desert Research Institute

The Earth Institute,
Columbia University

Geotimes: Earth Science News

Genomic Research & the Environment — J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)
Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB): Coastal and Marine Digital Library Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
NASA Goddard Earth Science Data & Information Center

National Biological Information Infrastructure

Natural Capital Institute

Nature, Journal

NOAA Satellite Information — National Geophysical Data Center

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
USGS
NOAA Satelllite Information Service
Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Science Blogs
Biocurious
Cosmic Variance – Random Samplings from the Universe of Ideas Nature Network Bloggers
Science & its political implications

 

Links to pdf files of papers coming soon.
Get the Acrobat ReaderIf you don't have the Acrobat Reader you can download it for free here.

 

Images courtesy:
ALife animations - lightcycle
Biobot - Mark Cutkosky, CDR, Stanford
Biomodels - Natalio Krasnogor
Cellular Automata - Wolfram Research
Golem robot - Jordan Pollack and Hod Lipson
Vesicles - Martin Hanczyc


©2006 - 2014. DE•SYN. All Rights Reserved.
Contact