Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy?

Mobile Interaction Design
Matt Jones, Gary Marsden
Mobile Interaction Design

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI...
Through rea

A Theory of Objects (Monographs in Computer Science) (Ha...
Martin Abadi, Luca Cardelli

David Freeman brings you the inside scoop on how to appl... Emotioneering™ techniques he's so well known for. Thes... techniques create a breadth and depth of emotion in a ga... player to identify with the role he or she is playing. M... techniques

A Theory of Fun for Game Design features a novel way of ... designers how to improve their designs to incorporate th... fun. This book will truly inspire and challenge game des... artists and designers from all segments of the industry....
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Types and Programming Languages (Hardcover)by
Benjamin C. Pierce

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon ... extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly –... developmental biology that we – and most other Drosoph... biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in... print. But

Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudiment... of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secur... Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigati... yellow. In another case, the BBC’s 2002 redesign of it... website int

After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest.

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

KISSING-CRUST (n.)
As loaves of bread expand in the oven as they're cooked, ...
LONGINQUITY (n.)
Derived from the Latin word for distance, longinquity is ...

Librarian questions quality of a publishing house. Libra... criticizes said press on his personal blog. Two years la... current employer get sued for libel and damages in exces...

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate.
Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did.

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio

A peaceful movement fights against violence and oppressi... nothing much changes. Then, everything changes.
Why do many complex systems – cultures, environments, ...
There's a tool that can help us understand this: attract ...

A versatile variant of Heapsort, adapted for external di... presented. On a single processor RAM with internal memor... Θ(m + kbw) words, it sorts a file of n records of ... stored in m physical blocks, each consisting of b record... using O(m l

I finally picked up a protective cover for my Kindle Tou... airport. Doing so revealed a hidden habit I was only fai... compulsively use boarding passes as bookmarks. What happ... to mark my place goes away?

rian Marick, Boundary Objects
An analytical concept from science studies: does it appl ...

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

Theoretically, the number of numbering systems is unlimi... complete (used by the divinities and the angels) has an ... symbols, one for each individual number; the simplest ne... is written as 0, one 1, two 10, three 11, four 100, five... seven 111,

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nig... to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated en... wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their s... only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit acc... they can pa

Google is approaching a watershed moment in its internal... time is nearly at hand when they will have to decide onc... Android is, what Chrome OS is, and where they are both g... to say it has not been internally decided and even worke...
The hint is

3. Language, Thought, and the "Extended Mind"
"Memento's Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Exten ...
"Author's Reply" to symposium on Natural-Born Cyborgs. ...
"Minds, Brains and Tools" (with a response by Daniel De ...
... ought" Pragmatics And

ANN is a library written in C++, which supports data str...
In the nearest neighbor problem a set of data points in ...
Based on our own experience, ANN performs quite efficien ...
The library implements a number of different data struct ...
The library