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Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
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Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
EyeWire
People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

MARVIN THE ROBOT, a supporting player in "The Hitchhiker... Galaxy," speaks in the dull monotone of the chronically ... "Star Wars" films, C-3PO is a bundle of anxiety and neur... "2001: A Space Odyssey," the HAL 9000 is creepily homicidal.

WAVING your hand to get the bartender’s attention may ...
Miniature projectors may soon have all kinds of new uses ...
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... service industry, but also in video games and robotics.

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
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With Kinect, Microsoft is finally getting it right. And ... Kinect, while it incorporates ridiculously advanced tech... software, is not about technology or software. It is abo...
As I threw a virtual ball with my real arm to my black p ...
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Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
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However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fi... and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four l... could be wi

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told cus... products were “secure,” marketing its cameras for ho... baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. ... a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw and p... live feeds,

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy mon... remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower... cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the mon... glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How abo...
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The aim of OpenInterface is to design and develop an ope...
Numerous multimodal laboratory prototypes embedding inno ...
It is now time to make a step change in the domain of mu ...
1. to ground the development of multimodal interactiv ...
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Pileus
The Umbrella Photo Browser to Relay Experiences in Rainy Day
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OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology...
* rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area
* email prioritizing, routing, summarization, and an ...
* expert systems
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For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
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When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
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Presentation Model
The purpose of MVC is to separate UI from domain logic. ...
Some examples include scrollbar positions and column sor ...
This is sometimes called an Application Model and the pa ...

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
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the pages below this one describe the two models for usa ...

This all happened a couple of years ago – just before ... search entirely and handed that part of its business ove... Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the sma... has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But ...
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Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the... Innovation” theory from his research on how farmers ad... innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rog... in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (19...
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Some of that research went back a generation. It was in ... instance, that researchers discovered that aspects of vi...
Muller Lyer Illusion Comparison 3
Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with ...
More recently psychologists had challe

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.
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There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
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Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
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Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
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