Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

It is a distinct language that has survived against the odds for centuries in a tiny pocket of central Sweden, where just 2,500 people speak it today. And yet, despite bearing little resemblance to Swedish, Elfdalian is considered to be onl...

it is possible to prompt CoPilot to suggest copyrighted ... computer game Quake III Arena, complete with comments fr... programmer. This code cannot be reused without permission.

It is tempting to conclude from this record that functio... have what it takes. They may make sense for certain limi... and contain useful concepts to be imported into other la... imperative and object-oriented languages are simply bett...
Tempting as

It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and

It just might be the right time for everyone to brush up... tech skills. iPads and touch-phones are ubiquitous. Touc... interactive whiteboards and displays are in schools and ... Microsoft's Windows 8 and the news that the company rece... Han's compa

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ...
Take a look at the pic below and you’ll see the Osteoi ...
... won’

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu...
Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ...
iPavement being installed in Spain
Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ...
The apps are available in a number of

It turns out, all you need to do when you read or hear s... that sounds smart, is try to translate it back into ord... better yet, have the person explain it for you - without... scientific jargon or terms, and see if it still makes sense.

It was the fall of 1998, and Schaefer was about to leave... job in the linguistics department at Uppsala University,... Stockholm. Hock announced that he had a going-away prese...
She was a little surprised—a parting gift seemed an od ...
Schaefer op

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
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Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ...
... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
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It's easy to imagine an application that takes advantage... extracting just what it needs and dumping it into a loca... database. But that's clearly cheating. It's equally easy... completely generic low-level Linked Data browser, but th... less than c

It's great. John Graham-Cumming is collecting screen sho... from movies and TV shows on the tumblr Movie Code and ex... actors are really looking at. Just because it's filled w...
Below is scenes from Terminator (he's looking at 6502 as ...
What all th

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

It's no secret to that our society is getting older. Mor...
The solution, the robotics industry hopes, is technology ...
Japanese Nursebots can lift up elderly patients and brin ...
In recent years, Japanese tech giant Panasonic has creat ...
In the next

It’s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... it’s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

It’s all for you © Claire Brewster 2013
It is an edition of 20, all hand cut by me, so even thou ...

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a plann... multiply violating elementary norms of international law... have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as... have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no oppos... they claim,

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

It’s not everyday you see a book that can be read in s... different ways, and this small book from the National Li... definitely an anomaly. According to Medieval book histor... this 16th century text has a special sixfold dos-à-dos ... back”) bi

iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files...

Its first stop was my stomach, whose complex work is und... what's sometimes called "the little brain", a network of... your stomach and your gut.
Surprisingly, there are over 100 million of these cells ...
The little brain does not do a lot of complex

It’s the latest in research software. NVivo 7 takes anal... a whole new level with a powerful, intelligent applicati... to manage, shape and analyze virtually any information, ... NVivo 7 will change the way you work forever.
Designed in consultation w

iVoLVER is a tool that allows users to create visualizat... textual programming. It is designed to enable flexible a... types of data (text, colors, shapes, quantities, dates) ... source types (bitmap charts, webpages, photographs, SVGs... within the

J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that ... untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims t... of Ecma-262 3d edition.

J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that ... untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims t... of Ecma-262 3d edition.

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager.... format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibl... JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and s... well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.