Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication

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 itâ ...
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.

JAIR(ISSN 11076 - 9757) covers all areas of artificial i... publishing refereed research articles, survey articles, ... notes. Established in 1993 as one of the first electroni... journals, JAIR is indexed by INSPEC, Science Citation In... MathSciNet.

Japan’s robot revolution moves from factory to the home
The world’s leader in robotic technology is creating m ...
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A Japanese robot demonstrates its ability to flip pancak ...
Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters

Jaron Lanier's book, You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, ... feathers in the US. The book takes a swipe at Web 2.0, a... destroying individuality, destroying creativity and dest... middle-class professions. On the cover of the book are t...
"It's early

Java applications, in particular those written with the ...
have a reputation for feeling clunky and out of place, a ...
belong on your computer. Often your users can't put thei ...
what it is that doesn't feel quite right. It is often th ...
... pos

Java Sketchbook: Getting Started with Java Web Start Jav... Getting Started with Java Web Start
by Joshua Marinacci
08/11/2005

Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly... loading the page or in run-time. This means that HTTP re... without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes. This post ... of my experiments with the inclusion of external javascr...

Jeff Randall: Here in Britain we’re very good at comin... but not very good at turning them into money-making busi... that?
Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ...

Jennie Carroll
Working Papers
This page contains various Working Papers and works in p ...
The development in the Model of Technology Appropriation ...

Jess is a rule engine and scripting environment written ... Java language by Ernest Friedman-Hill at Sandia National... Livermore, CA. Using Jess, you can build Java software t... capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the f... rules. Jess