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The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a powerful open-... source code maintenance. It is provided on the the Xcode... accompanies Mac OS X or as a part of the Xcode developme... online. This article covers some of the most commonly us... CVS, with e

the Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and... contrary to all popular belief, including that of most r...

The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and ter... how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A co... territory’s score indicates the perceived level of pub... corruption on a scale of 0 - 100, where 0 means that a c... as highly c

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

The curve clearly shows that you need to test with at le... discover all the usability problems in the design. So wh... testing with a much smaller number of users?
The main reason is that it is better to distribute your ...
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The Daily Telegraph, Thursday 28th January 1999
The Stuff that Dreams are made of...
Jim Horne
Even though the sleeper has little knowledge of what is ...

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

The deep union of ourselves with our inventions is not n... means a being that is part biological and part technolog... humans began as cyborgs, and still are. Our ancestors fi...
We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our ...
Clearly, we

The deep web (or invisible web or hidden web) is the nam... the World Wide Web that are not part of the surface web ... common search engines. It consists of pages which are no...
Non-textual files such as multimedia (image) files, Usen ...
The deep

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

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A...
The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ...
Second Sigh

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for iden... objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assig... for use on digital networks. They are used to provide cu... including where they (or information about them) can be ... Internet. I

The digital sundial displays the current time within its... (Credit: Mojoptix)
Image Gallery (3 images)

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larg... United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?

The Doppelganger service translates between IDs of entit... APIs. When you query Doppelganger with an entity ID, you... of that same entity in other APIs. In addition, a persis... serves as an anchor for your application that you can us... queries.

The education secretary, Alan Johnson, has come under fi... the use of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia for sc...

The effect was incredible.
The effect was incredible.

The Emotional Wardrobe builds on the characteristics of ... clothing, and imagines a world where fashion converges w... Emotional Wardrobe is about a new genre of clothing, who... benefits are intangible and difficult to quantify .. but... emotive cha

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

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The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

The EventSource enabler allows you to use the upcoming E...
The Event Source API allows you to generate JavaScript e ...
To use the EventSource enabler, simply include the enabl ...
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The Extensible Metadata Platform or XMP is a specific ty... markup language used in PDF, photography and photo editi... It was first introduced by Adobe Systems in April 2001 a...
XMP defines a metadata model that can be used with any d ...
XMP records

The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ...
Working for the Few - Oxfam report Source: F. Alvaredo, ...
The wealth

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

The Fabaroni is a 3D printing machine that constructs 3D... dough. Fabaroni's gantry has a moving Z-stage and a head... pasta-extruder moving in the X-Y directions. Fabaroni ta... input, processes them using Python, and prints to the ma... printed cir

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) Manual is a detai... guide that explains how to categorize facial behaviors b... muscles that produce them, i.e., how muscular action is ... appearances. It illustrates appearance changes of the fa... description