An important landmark: 'The Simpsons' are not over, they just reached half of their path. A cool paper about it in the NYT Mr. Groening, in spite of his own hints in previous interviews that the show might be running its course, has found a second wind. "I think the show has almost reached its hal...
'The Simpsons' has almost reached its halfway poin
An important landmark: 'The Simpsons' are not over, they just reached half of their path. A cool paper about it in the NYT Mr. Groening, in spite of his own hints in previous interviews that the show might be running its course, has found a second wind. "I think the show has almost reached its hal...
IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal of Smart Phone
The last issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing is devoted to smart phones. The mobile or smart phone is ushering in the real age of ubiquitous computing, and we shouldn’t undervalue its importance. This issue highlights work that presents specific smart phone applications as well as programming infrast...
Location-based annotations in Geneva
Shoutspace (one of the research project at our lab) now allows user to put location-based annotations in Geneva with mobile phones! Thanks to fab's hack!Basically, this program enables users to leave messages to other users on the map (our campus in Lausanne + Geneva). The message is then dispayed ...
Last week trip in Paris summary
Last week I had the chance to visit few labs in paris, France. I gave few talks presenting CatchBob! and the results we are getting. I received interesting feedbacks from the persons I met both from academics labs and private companies (mostly a telecom company, a video game editor and an electrici...
Swat team plans monkey business
Via ananova: An elite American Swat team wants to train a small monkey as the ultimate reconnaissance tool. Wearing a bullet-proof vest, video camera and two-way radio, the capuchin monkey would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go. "Everybody laughs about it until they really st...
rhizomatic moment
Yes, Anne, this is a deleuze+gattari-ian moment: extracted from Deleuze and Guattari's bible: A Thousands Plateaux. ...
Debate about cheating and computer uses in classroom
An interesting debate about cheating in ACM's Ubiquity. Donald Norman reply to Evan Golub. Golub's point was to question the open-book/open-notes exam that may trigger cheating situations. Norman's take is about defending cheating: I was disturbed by Golub's article because the emphasis was on chea...
LaCoMoCo: Laboratory for Context-dependent Mobile Communication
Laboratory for Context-dependent Mobile Communication: Context-dependent Mobile Communication is a strategic research theme at the IT University of Copenhagen. It consists of research activities within a value chain ranging from social and cultural implications of mobile communication to the techno...
Executive Laptop Steering Wheel Mount
A very tricky tool: the executive laptop steering wheel mount: Mount your laptop or notebook to your car's steering wheel and catch up on all your work while parked for extended periods at a location. Ideal for outside field sales and service professionals, real estate executives, students, etc. A...