3rd UK-UbiNet Workshop: Designing, evaluating and using ubiquitous computing systems. This workshop follows successful workshops in September 2003 and May 2004. This 3rd workshop aims to examine issues and research in the design, evaluation and use of ubiquitous computing systems. It will provide a...
[Weird] A cool spam visualization
A visual history of spam is cool, the author has "kept every single piece of spam and virus email since mid-1997. Occasionally, it comes in handy, for example, to add naïve Bayesian spam filter to my custom-written email filter. And occasionally I use it to build a chart of spam and virus email.". ...
[Space and Place] Wandering in Basel
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[TheWorld] moving further geo-caching
A new game we should play! la feuille explains in his blog that he likes finding books that were previously sent to specific person by the editors (with a carefully written dedication of the author) in bookshops specialised in second-hand books.The game is simple: find those books and tell the auth...
[Tech] angle04: what is this about?
I don't really get the meaning and how to use this angle04 project: the ergonomic is poor, I don't get the real affordance of the tool and I cannot find any explanation (the faq is a bit short). However, it is nice... ...
[Research] Positioning practices and mobile services
Alexandra Weilenmann's research agenda: Location- and position-based services have been pointed out as one of the possible groundbreakers on the mobile market. The starting point for this project is to approach such services from a non-technological perspective, by investigating how people orient t...
[Lyon] Future science and culture museum
A very nice picture of the yet-to-com science and culture museum in Lyon, France; designed by coop himmelblau, presented at the Venitian Biennale. I really find it impressive. ...
[TheWorld] Swiss cows, virtual agents and government decisions
DO COWS improve the view? This question is seriously taken by the swiss government according to the economist. The question actually is rather how much do cows improve the view and where do they provide most value for money? One justification for the subsidy is that cows eat young trees, and fewer ...
[Weird] The KLF manual
For those of us who never quit listening to the justified ancient of mu-mu, the KLF manual is still online to remember how to behave ;)THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USE IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN (1988). This may be the agenda for any futuristic organization...
[Prospective] Supply and demands negotiated by autonomous agents
Agents of change by P. Thibodeau discusses a capitalist future in which supply and demand is negotiated on a minute-by-minute basis by autonomous agents. Negotiation was one of the key agent capabilities tested at the conference's Trading Agent Competition. In one contest, computers ran simulations...