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Dagstuhl Day One

The talks Monday were after my own heart. The day started with relativization: The always entertaining Scott Aaronson talked on his approach to get an oracle where...

SOSP congratulations
From My Biased Coin

SOSP congratulations

One conference I've never had a paper in -- though I'd like to someday -- is SOSP, the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, one of the flagship conferences...

10/GUI, a new multitouch interface concept
From Putting People First

10/GUI, a new multitouch interface concept

MG Siegler writes on ReadWriteWeb about the fact that desktop touch screens don

On the difference between personalisation and customisation
From Putting People First

On the difference between personalisation and customisation

What’s the difference between personalization and customization? Are consumers really in control? Do brands (and designers) want them to be? Nick de la Mare of...

Philips Design and ABN AMRO create emotion mirroring system for online traders
From Putting People First

Philips Design and ABN AMRO create emotion mirroring system for online traders

Philips Design and ABN AMRO

TalkTalk launches Digital Anthropology Report
From Putting People First

TalkTalk launches Digital Anthropology Report

Yesterday TalkTalk, the UK broadband division of Carphone Warehouse, launched the Digital Anthropology Report

Working With Industry Helps Researchers?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Working With Industry Helps Researchers?

Is it a good idea for an academic researcher to work with industry R&D projects? Yes, in small doses: We find that university-industry relations exercise a positive...

Structured Search Is On The Table
From The Noisy Channel

Structured Search Is On The Table

Freebase. Wolfram Alpha. Google Squared. I hesitate to declare a trend, but there does seem to be a growing interest in more structured approaches to information...

Testing for Superclass With Shoulda
From Return 42;

Testing for Superclass With Shoulda

While I was refactoring a hand full of commonly used methods from a few controllers into a superclass, I was looking for a way to test that these controllers are...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 12
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 12

October 13 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission is holding a roundtable discussion on research on assistive voting technologies. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Kellogg...

Public Domain E-Reads
From The Eponymous Pickle

Public Domain E-Reads

There are now over 18,000 public domain (free) reads for the Kindle online. In addition Sony eBook readers can access Google's massive collection of scanned public...

Drawing Fewer Clicks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drawing Fewer Clicks

Short NYT piece on the Comscore study/ May mean we have to start looking at online very differently:'... A recent study, by the research firm comScore, has found...

Wi-fi Blocking Paint
From Schneier on Security

Wi-fi Blocking Paint

I wrote about this in 2004. This is an improved product: While paints blocking lower frequencies have been available for some time, Mr Ohkoshi's technology is...

The Benefits of Using Paired Programming
From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Benefits of Using Paired Programming

Have you tried pair programming yet in your classroom? I started using it in my classroom five years ago and will never go back to the one computer per student...

From Computational Complexity

The Molly Solution

This week Bill and I are both at the Dagstuhl Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Computation Complexity. I'll try to cover some of the talks and discussions on the...

Chart Understanding Versus Complexity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chart Understanding Versus Complexity

Continuing the topic of chart simplicity and understanding, Junk Charts looks at four charts of economic data and how they can be compared for impact and understanding...

links for 2009-10-12
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-10-12

What Caused the Sidekick Fail? "Microsoft was upgrading their SAN (Storage Area Network aka the thing that stores all your data)...

Using Wi-fi to "See" Through Walls
From Schneier on Security

Using Wi-fi to "See" Through Walls

Impressive.

Bringing internet video services to the living room TV set
From Putting People First

Bringing internet video services to the living room TV set

More details are emerging about Project Canvas, the ambitious joint venture by the BBC, ITV, Five and BT to bring internet video services such as the iPlayer from...

Examples of Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Examples of Visualization

A number of interesting visualizations of data. The original piece is 50 great examples of data visualization. There is no doubt that these are colorful, finely...
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