Cortexstorming
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I cortexstorm, therefore I am!
NUDNIC of Cortexstorming - Nimrod Kozlovski
What is cortexstorming?
Brainstorming is a creativity technique of generating ideas to solve a problem. The main result of a brainstorm session may be a complete solution to the problem, a list of ideas for an approach to a subsequent solution, or a list of ideas resulting in a plan to find a solution.
(Wikipedia)
Cortex is a brain structure in vertebrates ...�the outermost layer of the cerebrum ... has a grey color, hence the name "grey matter" ... is formed by neurons. The human cerebral cortex is 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches) thick and plays a central role in many complex brain functions including memory, attention, perceptual awareness, "thinking", language and consciousness.
(Wikipedia)
Cortexstorming is a light and fun brainstorming (an outer-layer-brain-storming), where one participant presents an original idea to the public and the public just throws up into the air anything that pops up related to the idea. While not pursuing any concrete targets, cortexstorming's purpose is to generally inspire and stimulate original multidisciplinary ideas out of nowhere.
(EureKamp)
Cortexstorming.
Cortexstorming is the main activity of the camp; it's a kind of light and fun brainstorming (an outer-layer-brain-storming), 7-10 minutes long. One participant presents an original idea in a nutshell (2-3 min) to the public and the public just throws up into the air anything that pops up related to the idea. This is a platform for a free no-strings-attached collaborative thinking where anything positive is welcome - from a well-backed feedback based on real experience to the most crazy out-of-knowhere and useless application or improvement. The purpose is not to maintain a focused discussion or a brainstorm with a target in mind, but rather to generally inspire and to stimulate idea sparkles out of nothing. Cortexstorming will take place in the main room of the camp and will contain several consecutive sessions, grouped by the area of the ideas.The idea for cortexstorming may be one created by the participant or found elsewhere, business or non-profit, Internet-related or "old-world", technology-based or gimmick, useful or totally useless ... in short – anything creative, innovative, cool, crazy or fun that worth 5 minutes of attention.
Note: the ideas DON'T have to be business-oriented, Internet-related, technology-related or authored by the presenter. We aim at having a vast versatility of presented ideas to ensure true multidisciplinary interaction. We also don't seek for polished presentations and don't aim at convincing each other of anything. Less PowerPoint and more interaction!
Suggested ideas for cortexstorming.
Please add your idea below (and specify your name). You're free to open a new field. In case you don't want to reveal your idea beforehand, just write down something so we know the rough distribution of ideas by areas and organize the sections accordingly.
For the list of 2007 ideas - please click here.
Internet
- "Pimp your search" - skinning search results with visualization templates (Uri Levanon)
- Ayuda - a firefox extension that provides help, tutorials & tips for online application sites (think zoho, google docs, online CRM, collaboration apps, office 2.0, shopping sites, but also simpler sites like flickr, del.icio.us and even facebook..)
The idea is to bring the splash tips windows, tutorials and help features that we know from desktop apps, into the web apps world, as a generic tool. (Uri Levanon) - Fast Internet? How fast the internet really is? Not so much, as the ISPs are slowing down the traffic. I'll discuss how the we can measure the true speed provided by the various ISPs. (Zvi Devir)
- Portal for community-organized industry conferences - Can a community of professionals in a certain industry organize its own conferences, and save paying thousands of dollars in participation fees to conference companies? (Dror Gill)
- Photo Essay - the next big thing on the web - Who will be more likely to build it? Who will use it? Will you? (Hanan Cohen)
- Content Generated Users (Web 4.0?) -Web1 was about content and users, Web2.0 was mainly around user generated content, Web3 is going to be the semantic web, which is content generated content (if you think about it hard enough). Will Web4 be content-generated users? Are we hitting on an android on windows live messenger? Was that a robot who just poked me? And on a business level - can we avoid hiring sales personnel and use robots who studied the company content and chat history? What about technical support guys, where customers actually chat with them online today? Can they be more robotic than they already are? The Web4.0 robots' artificial intelligence is derived from studying the online content. Will artificial intelligence finally match human stupidity? (Boaz Kantor)
- HTML, the next generation -It sits there from the dawn of the Internet era. Humans loath it, machines misinterpret it and despite desperate, heroic attempts, even today there is no decent IDE that can handle it properly (Dreamweaver is not enough). It is the garbage we feed our browsers with. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome HTML as we know it. Would'nt it be nice if we shared ideas about how to replace it? (Tal Yaniv)
- User-generated Users (Web 5.0?) - okay, web 4.0 is about content-generated users. But since the common facebook user is also a member of any single social network on the planet (yes, I'm looking at you, ASW/linkedin/sixapart/seesmic/etc.), we just have to labor to keep our profiles in sync. Or do we? I've found out the average joe tries to do that (and fails miserably), but the more cunning users actually expose different facets of their personas in different networks. But let's skip the psychological reasons for that. From a marketing standpoint, how would you approach the notion of completely understanding a person so that you can optimally target her? (Shachar Tal)
- 2nd Life (virtual 3D worlds) : how to be here and there at the same time?''Discuss on technologies that can help us live and experience both worlds simultaneously (intelligent bots, multimodality, memory summaries, instant presence technologies etc.) (Slava Shechtman)
- BackDating --no, it's not about another securities manipulation... no tipping for how to be the next Kobi Alexander. It is about going back in time to date an Ex (ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend). Have you herad a friend mourning his Ex and dreaming about just another chance with her? Maybe she would have liked it too. But, social, emotional and other constraints perevent them from being re-united. So, what if a simple FaceBook applicaiton would enable you to confidentialy mark the Ex you want to back-date and if she/he marks the same a match will be announced? No embrassment or stress, just a simple way to get your second chance. The system can also enable you to imagine the perfect date (night sail? sking on the slope?) and if there is a match the system will organize the optimal date you choose for the reunion. Not just another idea - based on a true love story!(Nimrod Kozlovski)
- wiki sefer limud in a country that has a "free mandatory education" law, parents waste hundreds of shekels each year buying new books 4 their childrens. some times its even more or less reasonable - new teaching programs r selected, new materials emerges (heard about the "multiplication" operator?) but most of the times its just the same book as last year, with different page numbers, so the teacher couldnt give homeworks from last year book and forcing the childrens 2 buy. the idea is 2 let teachers write real free textbooks, without corrupt publishers in the way 2 the students.
"Real-world"
Cars without Gas are like Fish with Bicycles: why don't they work (and what does).
Millions of commuters use electric vehicles on daily basis. Science fiction? Futurism? Today's China?
Well, pretty much all of the above. We can discuss how:
- Electric cars became the holy grail (but have you driven a grail, lately?)
- Western industry is missing the race to personal transportation.
- China got a head start (though they can't believe it... yet).
- Grass-roots technology saves the day (in China, too!).
If there is interest, we can later userbreeze and see where this may all lead to. -- On 08:21, 7 January 2008 (PST) (talk)
Personal FAB for customizable materials - CNC your pillow
The MIT center for bits and atoms are trying to create a personal FAB - a desktop machine to which you can download a program, and it manufactures it for you - not just a 3D model, the real thing - even working. On the other hand - nano evangelists describe a world of self assembly, where tiny particles will join together to create a fabric.
How can we create smart materials that will be able to have different properties? -- Eviatar Tron
Breaking the rules: conversion of private drivers and public transport
Growing number of private cars in the big cities insistenly stimulates seach for creative solutions for its reduction. I want to suggest for cortextstorming an idea of effective incorporation of private drivers into a public transport force based on the concept “customers are an acting part of a company” -- Alex Rudnitsky
To Win Traffic
Roads today, contain a lot of information like Traffic, Road conditions, accidents and etc.
I would like to present an idea for a new infrastructure which collects all Road Data and trasfers it to all road users. This infrastructure doesn't depend on cellular or other existing infrastructures. -- Igor Nabutovsky
What would you say about the universally adaptable shoes?
Tired of having a full closet of old shoes? Having trouble finding a perfect match for your feet? A sudden weather change caught you off-guard? Why suffer any of this and more?
How do I find a parking spot?
If you know, tell me.
If you don't, come hear my idea...
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High-tech
- Differential Debugger The 90/10 rule states that 90% of the time of a programmer is spent on debugging 10% of the code.
- Why debugging is so hard? I'll talk about a different debugging method. (Zvi Devir)
Crazy, Fun
- Make the web your playground!
Hide n' Tag is a new web game that updates the classic childhood game of "Hide and Seek" and takes it into the interactive online world. The web game adds to the experience of surfing the internet and enables users to address the web as a playground, a physical space in which they need to find hiding-places.
The game has won 1st place in "Games" category in the "Europrix Top Talent Award 2008" festival, that took place in Graz, Austria.
Multimedia
Finding "the missing ingredients" in the digital lifestyle (Tal Givoly)
In the next 5 years there will rage a battle between many players to try to create and own the digital lifestyle (the always connected, everything works together, everything is simple enough for your grandparents, everything simply works, environment). Companies ranging from consumer electronics, cable and satelite providers, Telecoms, mobile operators, internet giants and startups, media companies, IT vendors, OS vendors, and more are all vying to service it.
This session will try to identify any critical "missing ingredients" that are missing in order to enable or accelerate realizing this digital lifestyle.
3D Product Placement (eden)
Late night idea (maybe being silly, there are some brand preservation issues that come to mind) about using real objects within video streams to mark the spot for computer embedding of fake content (like blue screen but for 3D content)
Education
- can complexity be taught? is there an inherent linearity to human minds, or can the children of the future understand neural networks, traffic jams and the universe? (Eviatar Tron)
- Making Statistics Fun: I hate it when people say something like "don't bother me with statistics, just give me the facts". I also read some pretty alarming information about the poor quality of statistics and methodology in most research papers produced by the univerisities. Statistics is perceived as irrelevant, boring or as a 'necessary evil'. Actually, it's the only real tool we have to learn valid information about our world. How can we make statistics cool and fun? (Oren Tirosh)
- "The Lost Tools of Learning"? -- a classicist hacker, who teaches ancient Greek and Latin but makes a living in software, looks at ancient ideas about education and their relevance to the 21st century. Looking for brainstorming partners for after-talk discussion! (Asaf Bartov)
- Entrepreneurship Education: What are the most important skills and tools in an entrepreneur's toolbox? can they be taught? what's the most effective way to teach them? are emotional resources more important than business and technical skills? how can investors identify them in entrepreneurs? can they be acquired? (Liat Aaronson and Maya Elhalal)
Business
- Sustainable business models for tech/web supporting non-profits with low budgets. Small non-profit organizations don't have enough money to pay for good websites and good technology. They utilise vulonteers and used machines. Using low quality technologoy and vulonteers doesn't allow them to grow. I am looking for business models ideas that will enable the creating of companies that will service non-profits while making a decent living. (Hanan Cohen)
- Realizing the power of "design thinking"- designing products, services, and environments: creating a process of inspiration, ideation and implementation. Using "design thinking" to drive multidisciplinary innovation. Since I became very suspicious with the term "innovation", I'm exploring new ways to integrate "design thinking" with the product development process. "Unlike critical thinking, which is a process of analysis and is associated with the 'breaking down' of ideas, design thinking is a creative process based around the 'building up' of ideas. There are no judgments in design thinking. This eliminates the fear of failure and encourages maximum input and participation. Wild ideas are welcome, since these often lead to the most creative solutions.." (Noa Bichovsky)
Society
- Translating israeli websites to arabic - overcoming the obstacles with users inputs', as in open source systems'. although arabic is the second formal language in israel, most of the websites, especially government info pages ("mimshal zamin"), are not translated to arbic. There are many obstacles in doing this, from political and sub_culture issues, to technical and budget wise aspects. I'll present papers from the Knesset Technology Committee meeting and would like to discuss a model similar to wikipedia and other open source mechanisms, that may help achieving it. (Neora)
DRM
- imagine a real, effective, applicable and monetized DRM system we have the solution [nimrod lehavi]
Anything else?
