MindManager on Tablet PCs
Posted on March 31, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | 2 Comments
I think i might give Mindjet’s Mind Manager software a go when I get my new tablet PC (soon… so soon…)
MindManager on Tablet PCs
Mind mapping, the technique our software is based on, was originally done with pen-and-paper. With the advent of the latest tablet PCs, mapping has come full circle as maps can once again [...]
Common sense boosts speech software
Posted on March 31, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Common sense boosts speech software:
‘One surprising thing about testing interfaces like this is that sometimes, even if they don’t get the absolutely correct answer, users like them a lot better,’ said Lieberman. ‘This is because they make plausible mistakes, for example ‘tennis clay court’ for ‘tennis player’, rather than completely arbitrary mistakes that a statistical [...]
Anti-Chewing-Tobacco Activists Speak Out Against Secondhand Spit
Posted on March 31, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | 2 Comments
The Onion | Anti-Chewing-Tobacco Activists Speak Out Against Secondhand Spit
‘I don’t give a shit what Skoal says, secondhand spit is a serious threat,’ Pertwee said. ‘At the very least, the industry needs to measure secondhand spit’s effects on kids, who are closer to the ground, where all that spit ends up.’
P2P Quality Control
Posted on March 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Freedom to Tinker writes about Cornell researchers attempting to invent a form of quality control for P2P networks:
This scheme presents would-be adversaries with a dilemma. If Alice’s votes are truthful, then if you want to mislead Alice about one file, you have to earn her trust by telling her the truth about other files. You [...]
A Coder in Courierland
Posted on March 21, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
A Coder in Courierland || kuro5hin.org:
Once upon a time, I was a coder not unlike yourself. My day consisted of coffee, perl and java hacking, meetings, and e-mail. I had a cubicle with fluorescent lighting, my own bookshelf and two computers. And I traded it all in.
Even before Office Space, white collar workers peered out [...]
Will biometric security harm users?
Posted on March 20, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, security | Leave a Comment
vnunet.com writes in Will biometric security harm users?
Most worrying is the fact that biometric parameters are largely permanent. This is a limitation, not an advantage - if someone learns your password, you can change it, but you can’t change your fingers if a criminal manages to replicate your fingerprint.
As Bruce Schneir has said, biometrics are [...]
Speech Jobs at Microsoft
Posted on March 15, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
How to look for speech jobs
Submissions directly to me from my blog. I love getting submissions from people who see one of my open listings here and send me their resume. If you have your own blog, it lets me understand you better and perhaps suggest or refer you to somebody else.
Get to it! (I’ll [...]
Partial screen dimming reduces power consumption
Posted on March 14, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Tom’s Hardware writes about a new development in selectively dimming screens on portable devices to save on battery life:
Ranganathan and his colleagues develop a method of lighting up only the portion of the screen that’s being used - only the lines of text being read, for example. The display changes as the user scrolls up [...]
Fujitsu palm vien authentication
Posted on March 13, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Engadget write about Fujitsu’s palm vien authentication demo
Read More..>>The Engineer Online - Mind reader
Posted on March 13, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I have found an interesting article on the human factors in biometric systems:
…according to Angela Sasse, Professor of Human-Centred Technology in the department of computer science at University College, London, much work is needed to match the reality of human behaviour with the performance expected from the technology.
She has spent years studying human responses to [...]