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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009After about two years of organizing raids for my horde guild in WoW, I have decided that it’s time to let someone else do the job.
There are several reasons for this. For one, I expect to be very busy with co-chairing Graphics Interface all winter and I should concentrate on that. But there are other, […]
CapCHI meeting on personal sensor networks
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009If you’re in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, don’t miss tonight’s CapCHI meeting. Anthony Whitehead will be presenting a talk entitled Personal Sensor Networks as Input Devices.
Personal sensor networks are also known as Body Area Networks and consist of sensor placed on various parts or around the body. In this talk we look at a heterogeneous accelerometer […]
Virtual reality stuff I need to explore next week
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Nicolas Nova has an interesting critique of augmented reality, which I want to read more deeply when I get back to work.
My friend Julian Dibbell points me to a new conference, FaVE 2009: the first international conference on Facets of Virtual Environments. This is one to add to our list of conferences to submit to.
Automated recommendation system
Friday, December 5th, 2008There’s an interesting article in the New York Times on-line about a contest Netflix is holding to improve its recommendation system. I’m particularly interested in the fact that the teams have hit a stumbling block and are having trouble getting their computer systems to reach the goal of improving the original recommendation system by 10%. […]
Collaboration text
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008This looks interesting but I am not awake enough to read it at the moment so I’m just marking it for reading tomorrow: When should we collaborate? Via a tweet from Lilia Efimova.
Beatles music game
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008This is for André who mentioned to me he’d seen something about a music game featuring Beatles music would be coming out eventually. Looks like I know what to buy him for Christmas of next year.
The omnivore list
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Via Liz Lawley, one of those fun internet lists, this one for food: the omnivore 100. The game is to bold the food you’ve eaten and cross out those that you would never eat. I thought I’d try my hand at it. By the way, just because I’ve tasted something doesn’t mean I’d ever eat […]
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