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Bill Gates was great on The Daily Show ! (Link goes to Youtube clip.) Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Oh, that is just gorgeous. Read More...
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