Topics that came up:

Ward Cunningham
software patterns
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language
mind-map interface to wiki?

FreeMind

• Wikka

MindManager

"In Search of Modern China," Jonathan Spence
speed-listening

• if you listen fast and don't let your mind wander, you can absorb and retain information an order of magnitude faster

short-term memory (or the lack thereof)
types of memory and learning

• educational systems

lists, outlines, tables, databases/spreadsheets
how to kill creativity, dr. mclean

• no redundancy, no ability to make your own mistakes

healthcare wiki?
FluWiki

• Ted Kandell

Connotea (Nature)
tagging
Matador Technologies

• data flow testing

 learning by making mistakes

• make mistakes more unforgettable!

discourse styles

• interruptive/overlapping patterns differing on genetics, geographical/ethnic origins
• deborah tannen, "you don't understand"

 beef, growth hormones, FDA/BSE testing (or not)
DokuWiki

Twiki (hi, Peter!)

things that will get taught to students earlier in their curriculum

• relational database concepts (taught around the time you get algebra)
• searching techniques (taught around the time you learn to make a paragraph)

history of education

• schooled to order, david nasaw
• The Underground History of American Education, john taylor gatto

"Homeschooling for Excellence", David and Micki Colfax

patterns of wiki use
Wikiwyg editing
paste from Excel (or OpenOffice :-)

XML11

http://www.afmayer.net/

dKosopedia

Wolfram, cellular automata

• Kurzweil's refutation

Ed Fredkin
Thomas Poggio

Map the Google search engine on the data-information-knowledge-wisdom scale.

Vapnik's math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC_dimension -- explains why/when multivariate analysis works

First 20 pages of "Statistical Learning Theory" by Vapnik are a great discussion of math. :-)

• empirical inference science
• support vectors

Transcription (voice-to-text) services

• http://castingwords.com/

Mechanical Turk"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk