Nickster’s First Law of Prediction
Posted on January 19, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Nickster’s First Law of Prediction:
Nickster’s First Law of Prediction: when trying to predict consumer acceptance of new technology, take your best, most experienced time estimate and then double it. For example, if in 1997 you thought that this would be a cable television world, with satellite being blown to bits by fibre to the doorstep [...]
Speech-centric multimodal interfaces
Posted on January 19, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I just read an article in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine that talked about using gaze and gesture recognition to augment speech recognition for human-computer interaction. Link (IEEE membership required). This seems like a very interesting idea for controlling a computer. For example, you might say “move this to here” and it would interpret you gaze [...]
Read More..>>Disturbing - Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983
Posted on January 18, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is a little disturbing.
via Scobleizer
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Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet
Posted on January 17, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
NASA - Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet
It is an event so large that the best seat in the house is in space: a massive iceberg is on a collision course with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA satellites have witnessed the 100-mile-long B-15A iceberg moving [...]
The Rule of Thumb
Posted on January 17, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Meanderthal: Future Schlock 1: The Rule of Thumb:
That is why I’m proposing Lobbygow’s Rule of Thumb, which is:
The adoption rate of any new tehnological gadget, gewgaw or gizmo will be directly proportional to the extent to which it engages the thumb in an intuitive and enjoyable manner. When it comes to [...]
Safecracking
Posted on January 15, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Schneier on Security: Safecracking:
Matt Blaze has written an excellent paper: ‘Safecracking for the computer scientist.’
It has completely pissed off the locksmithing community.
There is a reasonable debate to be had about secrecy versus full disclosure, but a lot of these comments are just mean. Blaze is not being dishonest. His results are not trivial. I believe [...]
The Piled Higher & Deeper Paper Review Worksheet
Posted on January 12, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, PhD, comics, humour | Leave a Comment
The Piled Higher & Deeper Paper Review Worksheet
Stuck reviewing papers for your advisor? Just add up the points using this helpful grade sheet to determine your recommendation. No reading necessary!
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Interesting Paper on Archiving of Lecture Materials
Posted on January 12, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Let’s just note at the start here that you, or your organisation, will require a IEEE Digital Library membership to read this article.
Anyway, I just read an interesting article by Michihiko Minoh, of Kyoto University called Automatic Lecture Archiving System which details a automatic system already in place for several courses at Kyoto University. This [...]
IEEE changes membership structure for students
Posted on January 12, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
The IEEE has just split the existing student membership grade into two grades, undergraduate and graduate. The dues of both grades are the same as the original student grade, but “… changes are being considered to better match benefits to the individual needs of each group”. Link.
Read More..>>“Data Shadow” Identities
Posted on January 10, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I found a couple of posts on Coralynn Sack’s Blog about your “data shadow” self — your identity as revealed by information available in corporation’s databases, or on the wild internet. I fear that the concepts involved here may be a little over my head, but it still is an interesting concept.
In the data shadow [...]