Computerworld features an interview of SAP Labs' Ike Nassi about how he foresees the future of wireless networking. Some excerpts I found interestng: The integration of the real world and the IT world is going to happen, and it's going to accelerate. It's going to be driven by the increase in RFID ...
Gartner about LBS
According to Information Week, the last "Gartner Hype Cycle" report about emerging technologies has some thoughts about location-aware technologies: Among the high-impact technologies under Real World Web were location-aware technologies and applications. The former includes the use of global posit...
I walk. Principally I walk
A nice quote for a rainy saturday I which got back to some situationist writings: —What do you do anyways? I don’t really know . —Reification, Gilles replied. —It’s serious work, I added. —Yes, he said. —I see, Carole said with admiration. It’s very serious work with thick books and a lot of papers...
Andrew Hudson-Smith on city visualizations
In Londonist, there is an insightful interview of Andrew Hudson-Smith (UCL, Department of Advanced Spatial Analysis) about new ways of visualizing the city in three dimensions. The picture below shows an air pollution map. So, tell us a bit about your background, and how you came to be playing god...
About sequential data analysis
Fisher, C. and Sanderson, P. (1996): Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis: Exploring continuous observational data, ACM interactions, 3(2), pp. 25 - 34. The paper is an overview of the sequential data analysis that are available with an exploratory perspective. It's a very broad description but it ...
Mobile technologies and social coordination in urban environments
In the last issue of the Receiver, there is a paper by Lee Humphreys about mobile technologies and social coordination in urban environments which is of great interest to my research. Starting from Rich Ling & Birgitte Yttri's seminal work about that question (see the paper “Nobody sits at home and...
What about voice?
I am not following voice-recognition and its potential applications but today I've been confronted to three papers about it in my daily scans. Even though it's still R&D oriented, each papers delivered some promising messages about a technology that I am skeptical about (based on previous research ...
Artwork that changes to suit your mood
People from Bath University (UK) developed artwork that changes to suit your mood. It's called "empathic painting", the university webpage is more verbose about it: "empathic painting" - an interactive painterly rendering whose appearance adapts in real time to reflect the perceived emotional state...
New sony handheld
Sony's Mylo (My Life Online) seems to be a cross-over between a Danger's Sidekick and a PSP. It's basically a new handheld device that has interesting capabilities as reported by BBC: The pocked-sized gadget, called the mylo, will sell for about $350, according to the Associated Press. It has a sma...
AOL data release and data mining freaks
It seems that data mininer researchers/hackers had been crazy about the the recent AOL release of tons of data. This "A chance to play with big data" blogpsot gives some hint about it: Second, the new AOL Research site has posted a list of APIs and data collections from AOL. Of most interest to me ...