Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Timeline yourself.
Automatically create a Personal Timeline of your life fr ...

I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I...
Lecturing
Blackboard Technique
Publish the same results several times.
... Be prepared for old age.

Symbolic
Olfactory
Display
full thesis:
... ts for symbolic, computer-controlled, olfactory display.

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Smell But Wer...

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

Many of you have shared with us difficulties you’ve ex... using traditional path analysis tools. For instance, man... don’t sensibly group related visitor paths and pages, ... analysis can be difficult. You’re looking for better w...
The Google

Here, you will find all of the documentation needed to g... building an application on top of the data at Mendeley.

Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Re... cause your iPhone app to be rejected.

You may use this tool to create a Firefox extension (.xp... greasemonkey script.

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD... (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Resear... internal documents, historical reports, and statements r... debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled fi... chronologic

Annual Review of Sociology
Vol. 26: 463-496 (Volume publication date August 2000)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463)
A Space for Place in Sociology
... laces matter for social practices and historical change?

Arnetminer (arnetminer.org) aims to provide comprehensiv... services for researcher social networks. In this system,... creating a semantic-based profile for each researcher by... information from the distributed Web; (2) integrating ac... the bibliog

The question that has long raged among archaeologists is... first began using ochre as a tool for engineering or as ... making art. In other words, does symbolism start with sc... aesthetics? By examining 23 ochre-processing tools from ... researchers

IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic) way.

Google has released a new software framework that aims t... the ability to create interactive experiences in physica... potentially be used to build interactive art installatio... involve physical interaction.

XRay is a mashup of Microsoft Surface and the iPhone. St... Surface application that reveals photographs, but by lay... Surface, more layers of imagery are revealed, synced in ... upper image layers shown on Surface. The only limit to h... be used at

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey...
By John Timmer | Published about 17 hours ago
You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosyst ...
The team went back to 1993 and compiled statistics on ev ...
... PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.10

Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavil... programs, which analyze experimental data and run simula... would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outsid...
Reproducibility refers to the ability to repeat some wor ...
Reproducibi

In the latest cautionary tale involving the so-called In... white-hat hackers have devised an attack against network... lightbulbs that exposes Wi-Fi passwords to anyone in pro... the LED devices.
The attack works against LIFX smart lightbulbs, which c

Tate holds over 70,000 items in its collection.
Help us locate them around the world.

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

Finding your way around a museum — or a mall or airpor... — is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone.
As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

Welcome to the Computing Research Repository (CoRR), spo... arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Sc... Reference Library), and AAAI. CoRR allows researchers to... download papers through its online repository. CoRR is a... members of