Archive for the 'Computing' Category
08-12-05
Tags:Computing Watch List No, Apple still blocks access to its default calendar program on iPhone/iPodTouch, and going through iTunes or MobileMe involves Outlook (on the Windows side), which I strongly detest and have uninstalled even though we have a site license for it. I was searching for an over-the-air solution, and someone has come up […]
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08-12-03
Tags:Computing My students were abhored to find me using Google Chrome one day in class. Yep, I am one of the 1% who still do, because it’s much faster to start than Firefox and uses less memory over time. But I miss all the extensions I have on FF. One must have is Adblocker.
There is no […]
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08-11-17
Tags:Computing Watch List This is way better than what I had — when I had to leave my computer in public space, I used to start a screen saver, with a bouncing line of text that said "Motion Sensor Activated; Camera Activated". This one actually reads the motion sensor in Thinkpads.
If I were to steal […]
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08-11-15
Tags:Computing google map Add Your Own Custom Map
Adding a custom map is a very simple process with the latest version of the Google Maps API. The latest revisions of Version 2 implement several JavaScript classes that make the addition of your own custom map layer very simple. This guide is meant to describe how […]
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08-11-15
Tags:Computing googla map Watch List Pretty amazing … David20Rumsey20Historical20Map20Collection. Not only that sheer size of the collection, nor the fact that he scanned all of these, some of which are more than 1m large. I am more impressed with the fact he published all these without any troubles with copyright. Hey, don’t get me […]
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08-11-11
Tags:Computing Watch List
A great source of JSON data for mashing.
LibraryThing JSON Books API - WikiThing. There is a test page here: http://www.librarything.com/api/json.php
And then there’s the RESTful service:
RESTThis format is a simple HTTP GET or POST action and expects method information. Requests follow the following format:http://www.librarything.com/services/rest/[version]/?[method_name]&[arguments as key=value separated by ampersands]&apikey=[your developer key]example: http://www.librarything.com/services/rest/1.0/?method=librarything.ck.getwork&id=1060&apikey=d231aa37c9b4f5d304a60a3d0ad1dad4By default, REST requests […]
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08-11-10
Tags:Computing I don’t know when this function was added, but you can now search the web for faces only. Try this: "gary feng" - Google Image Search
[Disclaimer: as of today, none of the faces you see there is mine. In fact, you can’t find me even if you turn the "face-only" thing off. My invisibility cloak fooled […]
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08-11-09
Tags:Computing statistics Watch List What the Dickens? is a javascript Bayesian classification tool. It loads a corpus as a js file (which is no more than word counts from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dickens’ roughly half of Great Expectations). It then uses something akin to Divmod Reverend, a Python library for Bayesian filtering. There are parts missing, but it […]
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08-11-08
Tags:Computing eye tracking Research Watch List Doesn’t say the accuracy of eye-gaze location tracking. Prize winner in Competition "Best C++/MFC article of June 2008"
CodeProject: TrackEye : Real-Time Tracking Of Human Eyes Using a Webcam. Free source code and programming help The purpose of the project is to implement a […]
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08-11-08
Tags:Computing Linguistics Paperville psychology statistics Bob Port lists many interesting papers on this page in support of Rich Phonology, which I know little other than that it seems to emphasize on the richness (high dimensionality) of memory/representation of spken words (or do words exist if we are anti-segmental all the way?).
I am […]
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08-11-05
Tags:Computing Watch List Someone beat me to this . NPR provides an interesting API for accessing their stories; this wedget is one that uses the field:date to plot a time line:
Widgets : Tech Center : NPR
NPR SIMILE TIMELINE
The NPR SIMILE Timeline allows you to display a listing of NPR stories on a timeline. This timeline, made entirely of […]
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08-11-04
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Looks like a good tool, but can it do more than pies, bars, and areas? What is the HTML Canvas tag? Can I use it for visualizing eye movements?
PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting | liquidx
IntroductionPlotKit is a Chart and […]
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08-10-28
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Am I reading it correctly? So Google is in Amazon’s business of selling books, or even better, fulltext of books. You get 20% preview, and unlimited access after you buy it?
Will Google come up with something better than Kindle? I hope not. I hope everything will be in PDF, but […]
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08-10-27
Tags:Computing Watch List CouchDB is an Apache project that implements a flexible schema-free database. Most interestingly, it supports JSON API, RESTful API, and a distributed model whereby multiple servers can have independent copies of the same data and can be synchronized bi-directionally.
Planet CouchDB
Announcing "Relax with CouchDB" by O’ReillyI am happy to announce that Noah Slater, J. Chris […]
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08-10-21
Tags:Computing Exactly a month ago I blogged about Chris’ online game Flitta. If he hadn’t patented it, it’s too late. Picasa Web Albums now has a game called where in the world.
Check out photos from around the world and guess where they were taken!
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08-10-11
Tags:Computing Education Of course my lab is not the only ReadingLab around. Xerox owns the domain theReadingLab.com, which actually has some interesting (though outdated) information on some of their projects, for example,
The Reading Lab:Listen Reader
The Listen Reader is a personal interactive reading experience that combines the look and feel of a real book - a […]
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08-09-20
Tags:Computing See this? Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Where is it?
Kiev, Ukraine
Managua, Nicaragua
Havana, Cuba
Hawaii, USA
That’s essentially the game of Flitta, an online experiment deviced by Chris and popularized around the world by Sujai. Chris — we should do this with eye-tracking.
(and there is an obvious hack to cheat …)
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08-09-18
Tags:Computing Research Watch List I have a long interest in setting up something like CiteSeer for Psychology. In fact I contacted Steve Lawrence way back when, and still have their alpha version server scripts they graciously shared with me (but I was never able to make it work). […]
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08-09-05
Tags:Computing exhibit mit Research Watch List A way to put citations online in a multi-facet interface. Now sure what problem this solves, but nonetheless cool. Welcome to Citeline, a service to facilitate the web publishing of bibliographies and citation collections as interactiveexhibits and facilitate the sharing of this type of data.Here are some of our […]
Citeline
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08-09-04
Tags:apple Computing eye movement Watch List A patent filing described by AppleInsider | Apple looks to take multi-touch beyond the touch-screen shows that Apple plans to use the iSight webcam to track the "gaze vector". What’s interesting is that they will fuse it with other input such as hand gestures.
Gaze Vector Fusion
Similarly, iSight cameras could […]
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