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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

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Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. How are Workshop locations selected?

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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What happens to the surprises designers encountered, the interactive that visitors loved, the bits that never seemed to work quite right? As a poet, I know how a wide range of poets over a few hundred years have influenced my work. What was the basis for this project? So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions?

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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I first saw Scratch a few years ago, when I had friends working at the Media Lab, and at the time it seemed like a neat way for kids who were unfamiliar with programming to jump in and start designing their own interactive stories and games. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects.

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

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It was a survey lecture, beginning with her work in the sixities and first-hand accounts of the civil rights movement in her " American People Series " right up to her current work. Her talk was inspiring and often humorous, sharing her stories to illustrate her life's work as an artist, activist, author, teacher, and parent.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. It creates another forgettable museum.

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