Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Imagining A “Post-PC” World

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M. L�ng, K. Sattler, K. Schmidt, E. Schallehn:
Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes
ICDE Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systerms (SMDB07 ...

From a user perspective, current file systems are based ...
* Information is partitioned into coherent and disju ...
* Information objects are classified according to a ...
* Each information object is given a single, semiuni ...
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Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ...
The murder of Kitty Genovese shifted from crime to legen ...
The Times piece was followed by a story in Life magazine ...
New York be

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

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 latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

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

Whether you're a professional designer or just getting s...
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Includes booklet of 15 projects and with hundreds more p ...
Kit features popular modules like DC motor, servo, sound ...
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Fundamentally, our system is designed to be run across t... web front end and the back-end (commonly known as the "a... in SharePoint parlance).
FeandAppServerDiagram
As illustrated by the above diagram, the front-end compo ...

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

A conservative estimate by the World Blind Union indicat... million people world-wide are blind or severely visually...

"Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes."
Desmond Tutu

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

Find the essential details you need to use our web servi... eligibility to authentication patterns and technical doc... build enhanced services and solutions to everyday problems.

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs
In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ...
Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ...
At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ...
... already deployed I/O Docs for

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data....
The ten main classes
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Highlights
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Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
Your guides

The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri...
Douglass Ru

Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro

Women currently hold more than 51% of all professional o...
In 1991, women held 37% of all computing-related occupat ...
Women comprise 34% of web developers; 23% of programmers ...
Women hold 19% of CIO positions at Fortune 250 companies ...
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Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Digital Creativity is a major peer-reviewed journal at t... the creative arts and digital technologies. It carries a... interest to those involved in the practical task of maki... software for creative purposes. By the term �creative ... such discip

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...