Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Our goal is to make it easier for people to collect, org... visualize, and share their information. One of the bigge... such information management is the rigid, centrally-plan... models and user interfaces of existing applications and ... data people

We sometimes forget the real use of data - that of provi... humanity in various forms, and providing true functional... need it. Connections are good, but functionality is para... that a company can store ticket information on the web i... but the use

This website is for people involved in applied social re...
Some highlights of what is available:
Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base
An online hypertext textbook on applied social research ...
... g the use of the method, and information about software.

This web page provides a convenient way to try out and e... JavaScript code from the book Press On. It provides a ra... devices you can experiment with, a JSON import so you ca... devices, and an export function (currently supporting JS... SCXML, Dot

Basic general information about the markup languages: cr...
↓ Creator ↓ License ↓ First public release ...
avg Ulrich von Zadow LGPL 2003 0.7.0 text editor or ...
GladeXML GNOME LGPL April 1998 2.10.0 Glade GTK+
... 3. ^ XForm

The federated vertical search portal scitopia.org was cr... imagination and collaboration of 21 leading science and ... societies.
Searching for a better way to help researchers quickly g ...
Scitopia.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explor ...

We are in the midst of an explosion of emerging human-co... techniques that redefine our understanding of both compu... interaction. We propose the notion of Reality-Based Inte... unifying concept that ties together a large subset of th... interaction

False judgements and assumptions
Another reason to move beyond 'face value' is that our u ...
Recently, I decided to check a number of such assumption ...

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
It's that k

This event focuses on some significant developments in I... that have emerged in the last few years. Although these ... received widespread media coverage they have so far rece... way of sustained investigation by the social sciences. T... intended to

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

I'm doing up some slides on Mac OS/X, using Office 2004.... window grabs from Grab.app, and for many of the slides, ...
Nice. The 'Compatibility Report' for reading this file b ...
However, some of the images did work, and the ones that ...
So, if you'

CoSign: Secure, Intra-Institutional Web Authentication
Open Source Web Single Sign-On
An open source project originally designed to provide th ...

So far we have been thinking of the probability for gett... know that the mean value should be . Now suppose we make... get counts, but we don't know anything about , except t... nonnegative, of course. We may turn the question around ... the most li

SproutCore is a totally new way of building applications... Instead of following the typical web-driven model where ... things happen in the server, SproutCore applications spl... SproutCore application is a JavaScript application that ... the web bro

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopa... are unable to work with the latest version of the Java p... language.

How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy mon... remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower... cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the mon... glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How abo...
This articl

Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum
Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at t ...
(Bruno Vincent)
Not the date Will Pavia was expecting
... ; “I’m like a machine in the bedroom”, and so on.

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
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Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers
... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ...
The deliver

Mozilla Firefox based Spiders
Author Bob Clary
Web Spider applications have a multitude of possible ...

XUL:browser
From MDC
« XUL Reference home [ Examples | Attributes | Prope ...
A frame which is expected to contain a view of a Web doc ...

Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabiliti... The Mozilla project's XUL engine is a user-interface lan... use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone ... is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform brows... this pair o

Rendering Web Page To Images
For a long time now, people have been asking for ways to ...

Code snippets:Running applications
From MDC
This page describes how to run other programs from your ...

Code snippets:File I/O
From MDC
This article describes local file input/output in chrome ...
You access the file system using Mozilla XPCOM component ...

Browsers are normally banned from launching local progra...
circumvented in Firefox?

Contact Person
Wolfgang Aigner
Project
Information Visualization is mainly concerned with the r ...