Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my family’s rural home... oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little tim... possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I stil...
I’ve hear

in order to integrate a new ontology a great deal of man... by the personnel profoundly familiar with the GRACE form... to operate the specific editing tool is necessary. Based... experience, it is estimated that integration of a small ... containing

In order to support data set owners to publish their dat... Data on the Web, as well as to support data consumers to... integrate Linked Data from the Web, the LATC project has... of open source toolkits that cover all stages of the Lin... publication

In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. ‮..

In other words, we live in a global economy that is larg... making. And today, the competition for the best jobs and... countries that are free-thinking and forward-looking; co... most creative, innovative, entrepreneurial citizens.
That gives nations

In our currently unstable economy, many are finding that... – people are increasingly moving in and out of work, a... support between these brief spells of employment. Even t... are finding it hard to meet the cost of living – a clo... UK’s bene

In pictures: Rare lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire
Cloud over Leeds
Cloud over Denholme
More properly known as Altocumulus Lenticularis, the clo ...
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In professional web design circles, the usability testin... become an essential component of any major project. Simi... groups in brand development and product launches, usabil... a rare opportunity to receive feedback from the very peo...
But how can

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

In spite of the stability and popularity of the Self-Org... at least two limitations have to be noted, which are rel... hand, to the static architecture of this model, as well ... hand, to the limited capabilities for the representation...
With our no

In the 1960s, Sister Keller studied at the University of... also studied at Purdue, the University of Michigan, and ... Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its comput... allowed Keller to help develop the computer language BAS...
Keller’s

In the 20th century mass production revolutionised how w... fabric. Now new technology is taking textiles into new f... architecture and sport

In the demo above and in the original article, the model... someone might know about characters inspired from the 19... Side Story", in which two gangs (the "Jets" and the "Sha... territory and overall dominance. Units, the activation l... represents

In the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet... used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spa...

In the future, I wonder if it'll be common for people in... that to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, p... strategically add more content to the cloud as an elabor...

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

In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ...
But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
... ive cos

In the past few years, performance research has become m... thanks to research by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance... Google’s Steve Souders. Most of that research studies ... HTML page, but the resources the page requires to displa...
Although bo

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D...
And just li

In The Shape of Things Unseen, neurologist Adam Zeman attempts to explain how and why this is. It is a wide-ranging survey – too wide, offering a mass of fascinating information about creativity, mental imagery and child development blo...

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
Idealized d

In this article I describe Animator, a class for creatin... à la moofx or scriptaculous

In this essay, I want to offer a competing narrative to the popular but woefully misnamed “sharing economy” (which, of course, isn’t sharing, unless you tell your kids that buying and selling toys from other five year olds is “shari...

In this example the physicist David Deutsch (1999) demon... explanations and predictions are entirely different thin... provide us with the linguistic tools from the English ve... calculus that enable us predict outcomes in our physical... and where w

In this paper, we analyse the current state of the devel... electronic prescriptions in Europe and the USA. These tw... different approaches to the healthcare sector, since in ... national social insurance usually provides treatment for... (most often

In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.

In this third part we will install an apache webserver w... different php versions. I will use php4 and php5, howeve... be used for php5 and php6 (as soon as there is at least ... candidate version) or even it can be used to install mul... php5 versio

In this workshop Niall Dempsey will host a Q&A session a... built for his Roscrea farm. FarmBot (the sheep herding r... inspired when Niall needed some assistance with herding ...
Farmbot is a small (2 ft x 3 ft x 2 ft high approx.), fo ...
Currently i

In turn, I was shaped by the Argonauts, a 20th-century radio club for children, which had us vow: “Before the sun and the night and the blue sea, I vow to stand faithfully by all that is brave and beautiful; to seek adventure, and having ...

In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher.
Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ...
Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ...