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Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th...
And analysis by England's higher education funding body ...
This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ...
The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ...
Analysis by

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

University of Nottingham

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels....
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ...
It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ...
Shodan sear

Unlike the Mercator projection, the 1569 mapping techniq... you'd probably recognize from the world maps you saw in... continents on the AuthaGraph aren’t lined up straight... angled in a way that provides a more accurate representa... distances b

unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOf... It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive co... documents.
Supported document formats include Open Document Format ...

Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Re...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

UPDATE: Musk said at his rally that one had to be a petition signer to be eligible for the $1 million prize. (“So– we really want to try to get as many people as possible to sign this petition. So. I have a surprise for you [crowd chee...

Update: New blog entry: Introducing S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partiall ...

Upside Down Text - Unicode Character Map
This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

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Usability with a twist (updated 20 Feb 2006)
10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

Use checkboxes and radio buttons only to change settings... buttons that make something happen. Also, the changed se... take effect until the user clicks the command button (la...
* If the user clicks the Back button, any changes ma ...
* If th

Use our service to anonymously and securely store an onl... proof of existence for any document. Your documents are ... database or in the Bitcoin blockchain, so you don't have...
All we store is a cryptographic digest of the file, asso ...
The key adv

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

Uses the new File API supported by Firefox 3.6. Enables ... html element and turn it into a hotspot for receiving fi... explorer!
Each file will be sent as a binary AJAX-request with cus ...

Using brain imaging, scientists have built a map displaying how words and their meanings are represented across different regions of the brain

ust a little less than a year ago I launched Better-Than... WordPress Search. I felt it was time to get back in the ... so I’m now releasing version 2 of the script.

UUIDs (related to GUIDs) are used frequently in computin...
7673868d-231e-490d-9c4f-19288e7e668d
This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
... WSDAPI, please use the urn:

Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society.

Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
My future c

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Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychi...
Sometimes the most beautiful things come from unexpected ...

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...