Software, Methods
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Information Architecture
Phil Windley We’ve all seen cities that don’t just quite seem to have a sense of place, where the zoning didn’t yield a coherent set of uses or designs and things just seemed thrown together. This results from a lack of planning. Imagine the difficulty and danger of living in a place where there were…
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Information Architecture
Phil Windley We’ve all seen cities that don’t just quite seem to have a sense of place, where the zoning didn’t yield a coherent set of uses or designs and things just seemed thrown together. This results from a lack of planning. Imagine the difficulty and danger of living in a place where there were…
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The machine that invents
St Louis Post-Dispatch Technically, Stephen Thaler has written more music than any composer in the world. He also invented the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush and devices that search the Internet for messages from terrorists. He has discovered substances harder than diamonds, coined 1.5 million new English words, and trained robotic cockroaches. Technically. Thaler, the president and…
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The machine that invents
St Louis Post-Dispatch Technically, Stephen Thaler has written more music than any composer in the world. He also invented the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush and devices that search the Internet for messages from terrorists. He has discovered substances harder than diamonds, coined 1.5 million new English words, and trained robotic cockroaches. Technically. Thaler, the president and…
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Mutating software could predict hacker attacks
New Scientist Novel computer viruses and worms can sweep the world within hours, leaving a trail of devastation, because firewalls and antiviral software work by identifying the telltale signatures of known attacks. They are useless against anything completely new. But now software engineers at Icosystem in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a program that can predict…
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Mutating software could predict hacker attacks
New Scientist Novel computer viruses and worms can sweep the world within hours, leaving a trail of devastation, because firewalls and antiviral software work by identifying the telltale signatures of known attacks. They are useless against anything completely new. But now software engineers at Icosystem in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a program that can predict…
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Moving off e-mail
e-mail has transformed the way we work. e-mail has meant that we are quickly able to communicate with friends and colleagues. Letters become conversations. Scribbled notes become shared ideas. But, as this article so nicely observes: e-mail is where knowledge goes to die.
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Moving off e-mail
e-mail has transformed the way we work. e-mail has meant that we are quickly able to communicate with friends and colleagues. Letters become conversations. Scribbled notes become shared ideas. But, as this article so nicely observes: e-mail is where knowledge goes to die.
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Links allsorts
VH1’s Best Week Ever: thanks to Anil for this link … … and for this one, too: the first blog dis record. I share Anil’s surprise that Google is ‘funding this guy making a name for himself in the social networking space’. (On this, David Weinberger has something to add: ‘according to the Butt Ugly…
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Links allsorts
VH1’s Best Week Ever: thanks to Anil for this link … … and for this one, too: the first blog dis record. I share Anil’s surprise that Google is ‘funding this guy making a name for himself in the social networking space’. (On this, David Weinberger has something to add: ‘according to the Butt Ugly…