Lucy Sushman, who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science last year, is doing a talk in Sydney titled ‘Embodied Agencies at the Interface’. The talk will …
What is Captology?
Captology refers to the process and design into how computers can be designed to change what people think and do. It also refers to the study of computers as persuasive …
Google Labs – the technology playground of Google
labs.google.com is the location of Google’s technology playground. The site contains some of googles latest developments including the new 26 March Google Compute where you can donate your idle computer …
What is Bioinformatics?
Daniel Steinberg comments on Bioinformatics saying optimistically that the field will not have strong focus in 10 years (2012) as it will have the same/similar context as other scientific disciplines. …
Weapons of Mass Transit
Technology Review comment on Saddam’s biggest secret – his weapon of mass transit. www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_muller031403.asp
Logitech’s new Digital Pen
Shoshana Berger from Business2.0 comments on the new Logitech Digital Pen whose sole purpose is to get rid of paper and digitise everything you write. www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,47314,00.html
Technology close to connecting brain to machine
An interesting article which comments on new neural interface technologies which will soon connect our minds to machines. The idea which was popularised by film The Matrix, might be closer …
The future cyber wars
An interesting article in CNN.com on future cyber wars that will develop as technology advances. The article covered the topic of misleading information, the internet and information overload. “Warfare is …
Technology Review comments on Word Bursts
Technology Review picks up on the topic of “Word Bursts”, and comments on the algorithm created by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University in New York which analyses large collections of …
Wire-free Electric Power technology
Mobile wise have developed a wireless electric power technology that allows devices such as monitors, palms, laptops, etc. recharge without the use of power cables. It is quite an interesting …
The demand for better rechargeable-battery technology
An interesting article in Technology Review on the new demanding necessities of portable power, particularly as we embark on a world of wireless devices and portable technology. With our society …
Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction
An interesting article on MIT’s Alumni website commenting on new Information privacy laws. The article is titled “Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction: On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a …
MIT & the Next Generation Computing
MIT wrote a series of articles in their OPENDOOR Alumni Association website in April 2002 on Next generation Computing. The 3-part articles titled, “Science of Computing“, “Human Centred Computing” and …
Is Weblog technology going too fast?
An interesting article in the New York Times (free subscription required to view) which looks at whether the rapid adoption of weblogs and the technology associated with it is just …
The Battle in 64 bit Land
The Battle in 64 bit Land, 2003 and Beyond www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT012603224711