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WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)
The World Wide Telecom Web (also referred to as The Spok ...
The World Wide Telecom Web
Past and Present Collaborators:
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Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into rea... (video)
By Vlad Savov posted Apr 2nd 2011 1:24PM
It had to happen. When Google showed off a new and revol ...

The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet... Since then, countless technological advancements have al... more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do w... outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you... with your b

During the first NASA missions the astronauts used penci...
During this time period, Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pe ...
Fisher developed his space pen with no NASA funding. The ...
Fisher offered the pens to NASA in 1965, but, because of ...
... rt into

"Communities need libraries more than they ever have don... are in a superb position to help [during difficult econo...
"People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's al ...

Real Studio is a full-featured, cross-platform software ... suited to creating a wide range of applications, from ut... enterprise-class applications. Real Studio is the only o... cross-platform software development tool that enables us... to create p

The Code-Point Open dataset is advertised with the bold ... “Code-Point Open locates every postcode unit in the UK... precision”. Unfortunately this is simply untrue, and a... me to point this out, they’ve fallen at the first hurd... Northern Ir

Want to find the latitude/longitude of any UK postcode? ... Wales, and Northern Ireland? Read these first:
The problem with code point open from ordnance survey
Code point open northern ireland addendum
Then follow these instructions:

PostGIS is a spatial database extension for the popular ... object-relational database. PostGIS “spatially enables... server, allowing it to be used as a back-end spatial dat... geographic information systems (GIS) and web-mapping app... same manner

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
unicode.jpg

This is a free, community driven Q&A for statisticians, ... miners and data visualization experts.

BBC GEL Social Media Icons v1.0
Back in April, before I left Clearleft, I started creati ...
The BBC’s icons were lovely, single-colour icons, and ...
When BBC News (my news source of choice) launched a beau ...
... d I claim no ownership of the logos

Web search engines have become indispensable tools for f... online effectively. As the range of information, context... Internet searches has grown, the relationship between th... search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not al... seeking the

Docvert takes word processor files (typically .doc) and ...
Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Open ...
The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted ...
The result is returned in a .zip file.
Docvert has a user-friendly inter

The Zero Clipboard library provides an easy way to copy ... clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie, and a Ja... interface. The "Zero" signifies that the library is invi... interface is left entirely up to you.
This library is fully compatible w

Tagged datasets for named entity recognition tasks

The objective of the ACE program is to develop automatic... technology to support automatic processing of human lang... from a variety of sources (such as newswire, broadcast c... weblogs). ACE technology R&D is aimed at supporting various classificati

CRFClassifier is a Java implementation of a Named Entity... Entity Recognition (NER) labels sequences of words in a ... names of things, such as person and company names, or ge... names. The software provides a general (arbitrary order)... linear chai

Acronyms result from a highly productive type of term va... substitutes fully expanded terms (e.g., retinoic acid re... shortened term-forms (e.g., RARA). Even though no generi... patterns have been established for dealing with acronym ...
Acromine is

At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal.
In this century it's as likely to be graduates.
There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ...
Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate

Harvard researcher rejects Google's 'personal attack'
Google logo Google is under investigation by the Europea ...
Continue reading the main story
Related stories
... onal attacks" to distract people from its own behaviour.

By comparing results between leading search engines, we ... in their algorithmic search listings. We find that each ... favors its own services in that each search engine links... services more often than other search engines do so. But... engines pro

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Objec... then apply data-driven transformations to the document. ... example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table f... numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive ...
D3 is not a

Your Glove Size
picture of hand To find out your glove size, measure (i ...
Glove Size Equivalents
Some manufacturers indicate glove sizes by number and ot ...
... (example: A 7" measurement equals a size 7 glove)

To ensure a proper fit: Measure your hand with a tape me...
* Measure your hand with a tape measure around the k ...
* Measure your dominant hand - the right if you are ...
Note: some manufacturers indicate glove sizes by inches ...
... xx-larg

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of... the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’v... during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter y... of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s ... collection

A new rock with “topographic compositions”discovered... Valcamonica, Italy
by Alberto Marretta
The Bedolina area is today known mostly for one unique r ...
In general the imagery found in Bedolina links both with ...

Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ...
The upper p