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2007-05-19 17:33:34     Open Archives Data Service Prototype and Automated Subject Indexing Using D-Lib(R) Archive Content As a Testbed

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december03/mongin/12mongin.html


Introduction
The Indiana University School of Library and Information ...
D-Lib Magazine Archive Structure
... is also probably not that useful [Salton, McGill: 1983].

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2013-10-22 15:22:46     The Nobel Prize in Economics 2013: of the madness and the wisdom of crowds | OECD Insights Blog

http://oecdinsights.org/...madness-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/

Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo...
Fama’s wo

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2009-02-04 10:33:15     iPhorest - Plant your tree.

http://www.iphorest.com/

iPhactory is pleased to launch the iPhorest, the app tha... plant trees from their phone. By downloading the app, th... seedling both virtually and physically. As the seedling ... grows, users can also send seeds to other phones, starti...
For each vi

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2007-12-08 15:26:51     BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7069943.stm

Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad
Not many of the people who were blogging in English from ...

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2013-04-10 08:26:39     RTÉ to employ semantic web and big data to preserve Ireland’s memories - Ireland's cloud news service - Siliconrepublic.com

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/...rt-to-employ-semantic-web/

Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava

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2007-11-25 12:38:18     iRobot Corporation: About ConnectR

http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=338

iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot
Stay close to those you love – no matter where you are!
Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ...
* Participate in family moments even though you're w ...
... ted to your family and frie

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2006-12-22 09:18:59     The iRows Blog

http://irows.blogspot.com/

iRows Founders Join Google
As the title says, we have decided to join Google.
We are really excited about this transition. When we sta ...
We launched iRows in January, and will shut it down on 3 ...
Being at Google will allow us to continue doing what we

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2012-01-29 19:05:31     SelfControl | Steve Lambert

http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the

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2016-12-09 18:00:51     The Challenge of Consciousness | by Riccardo Manzotti | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/...allenge-of-defining-consciousness/

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

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2012-05-03 16:38:04     Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?...

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

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2005-12-18 13:54:06     Free Statistical Tools on the WEB

http://isi.cbs.nl/FreeTools.htm

ISI - International Statistical Institute
Free Statistical Tools on
the WEB

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2009-04-09 07:13:29     Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer | Maximum PC

http://www.maximumpc.com/...ds_a_multitouch_surface_computer

It all started while we were researching an article on f... interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at th... multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the i...
There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart ...
And so we d

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2010-12-11 00:39:49     Open source teaching materials -time for a mandate « Thoughts on software and systems engineering

http://se9book.wordpress.com/...aterials-time-for-a-mandate/

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

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2024-01-18 08:24:37    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67993056

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

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2022-01-09 14:05:05     GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...ing-code-without-permission/

it is possible to prompt CoPilot to suggest copyrighted ... computer game Quake III Arena, complete with comments fr... programmer. This code cannot be reused without permission.

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2012-03-13 19:50:57     OCaml for the Masses - ACM Queue

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036

It is tempting to conclude from this record that functio... have what it takes. They may make sense for certain limi... and contain useful concepts to be imported into other la... imperative and object-oriented languages are simply bett...
Tempting as

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2016-12-06 14:28:55     Impact of Social Sciences – Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? Reviewing the literature on academic citations.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/...emic-papers-citation-rates-remler/

It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and

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2012-07-22 21:27:23     Interactive Multimedia Technology: Musings about NUI, Perceptive Pixel and Microsoft, Rapid Creative Prototyping (Lots of video and links) Revised

http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.co.uk/...tml

It just might be the right time for everyone to brush up... tech skills. iPads and touch-phones are ubiquitous. Touc... interactive whiteboards and displays are in schools and ... Microsoft's Windows 8 and the news that the company rece... Han's compa

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2014-07-12 07:04:12     A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/...t-can-heal-your-bones-40-80-faster/

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ...
Take a look at the pic below and you’ll see the Osteoi ...
... won’

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2014-05-18 08:27:50     Why Teens Are Innovators Of A New Public Form Of Privacy | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

http://www.fastcoexist.com/...f-a-new-public-form-of-privacy

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

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2012-04-28 15:40:58     iPavement embeds WiFi hotspots in the street

http://www.gizmag.com/ipavement-wifi-paving-stones/22325/

It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu...
Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ...
iPavement being installed in Spain
Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ...
The apps are available in a number of

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2016-04-18 07:58:36     Here's Richard Feynman's simple technique for sorting science from pseudoscience - ScienceAlert

http://www.sciencealert.com/...ng-science-from-pseudoscience

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.

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2012-11-18 07:52:08     They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manus.../all/

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

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2014-01-10 16:43:54     The ocean is broken | Newcastle Herald

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/18.../the-ocean-is-broken/

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
See your ad here
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.

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2011-10-17 12:05:25     BPS Research Digest: Are we really blind to Internet banners?

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/...rnet-banners.html

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 ...
... ritten

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2009-07-01 11:39:57     Architectonic: The Semantic Web or The Generic at War with the Specific

http://artofsystems.blogspot.com/...generic-at-war-with.html

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

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2014-01-04 16:26:22     What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/...mputer-sequences-act-1494297200

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

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2014-01-20 10:46:03     Britain is scared to face the real issue – it's all about inequality | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/...ty-threat-recovery-poverty-pay

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

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2012-08-19 19:00:09     Rise of the elder care robot

http://www.smh.com.au/...lder-care-robot-20120819-24g7w.html

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

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2016-09-29 14:52:29     Microsoft's Internet Business Gets a New Kind of Processor | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/...oft-bets-future-chip-reprogram-fly/

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

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