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Bill Gates on the Daily Show

Bill Gates was great on The Daily Show ! (Link goes to Youtube clip.) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:41 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

where Design comes from this month

There's a fresh wealth of design ideas in this month's Where Design Comes From newsletter . My favorite piece is Jonathan Yuen's design portfolio , which he's delicately sketched with ink and innovation. Interacting is a joy and gives a satisfying sense Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:21 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Petzold's new WPF book, Applications = Code + Markup, is brilliant

I've been meaning to write for some time about Charles Petzold 's book on the Windows Presentation Foundation, Applications = Code + Markup . Early reviews of the book offered glowing praise , so I ordered a copy of my own. I've read enough of it by now Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:23 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Fun with Texture Transfers

One of the image processing technologies that Andrew Blake (of Microsoft Research) showed us during his Computer Science and Illusion presentation was image quilting , where bits of a texture are stitched together into a large, cohesive image. A cool Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:06 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Illusion, Theory, Computation: Andrew Blake on Computer Vision

Here is a link to the slides from Andrew Blake's fascinating presentation last night on Computer Science and Illusion. ( 44MB, zipped PPT ) His presentation took us on a journey through four topics from computer vision: perspective drawing, texture, shading, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:07 AM by robburke | 4 Comments

Looking forward to Computer Science and Illusion on Wednesday in Dublin

If you're in the Dublin area, don't forget that Andrew Blake from Microsoft Research will be presenting on Wednesday night at Trinity College Dublin on the subject of Computer Science and Illusion . The talk will explore and demonstrate connections between Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:50 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

Andrew Blake, 'Computer Science and Illusion' presentation in Dublin, September 6th

A highly respected Senior Researcher from Microsoft Research in Cambridge is visiting Dublin on Wednesday September 6th to give an evening's presentation titled Computer Science and Illusion: A Computational View of the Interpretation and Manipulation Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:32 AM by robburke | 3 Comments

Strange brew (eh)

Here is my Canada Day jogging soundtrack from this morning, which you may also find suitable for during a Leafs game , after watching the ultimate modern adaptation of Hamlet , or (where I originally heard most of them) all throughout Friday afternoon Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 3:21 PM by robburke | 8 Comments

New Windows Live Local - with traffic data, updated developer support, and more!

Windows Live Local (Virtual Earth) has released a new Beta version of their online mapping application , which now includes features like live traffic information, new maps of the UK, and some really impressive new developer support ! Fellow evangelist Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 3:45 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

Web The Next (TM)

The only thing funnier than Something Awful's take on Web 2.0 is O'Reilly's take on the upcoming IT @ Cork MiniConference on Web 2.0 . Common sense surrenders. [Update: Gotta respect them for responding .] Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 2:54 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

Microsoft Research in Cambridge: Applied Games Group visit

I had the good fortune of spending Thursday and Friday last week at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. I had been invited to visit by Ralf Herbrich and Thore Graepel, the leaders of MSRC's newly-formed Applied Games Group . Before starting the Applied Games Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:18 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

There once was a city called Limerick...

What in the name of Munster could possibly, POSSIBLY cause the lovely Limerick to lose its esteemed City status, and be demoted to Town or even Hamlet in the eyes of the EU? Rugby, of course ! It's all fun and games until someone loses a city, lads! [ Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:19 PM by robburke | 4 Comments

Juxtaposition

Seen on a newsstand as I was leaving Las Vegas: Cover of Time: "Are Kids too Wired for their own good?" Cover of Wired: "Guest Editor Will Wright's new World of Games." I bought the Wired :) *Will Wright is the esteemed creator of The Sims and Sim City, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:55 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

On Hawkins' "On Intelligence"

I've just finished reading Jeff Hawkins' book, On Intelligence , in which Hawkins develops his theory of how the brain works. In it, he describes what he calls the memory-prediction framework , and outlines how artificial intelligence researchers might Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 10:09 PM by robburke | 7 Comments

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

Oh, that is just gorgeous. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:59 PM by robburke | 3 Comments
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