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Computing in and with the physical world

Computers are connected to people, and to the physical world, through input/output devices. These are not just keyboards, mice, monitors, printers etc, but also various sensors, e.g. temperature, light, movement sensors and video cameras, and output devices like industrial control systems or robots. Every day, we increase the extent of what computers can observe, and […]

Posted 11 June 2009 † johan § Computer science § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Two new-ish search engines

Recently, while reading about methods for manipulating RDF, I discovered the search engine PowerSet. More recently, Wolfram Research’s Wolfram Alpha launched. There’s been no shortage of new search engines in the past year or so – Cuil is one that was much publicized but ended up remarkably useless – but these two still impress me. PowerSet […]

Posted 26 May 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Realtime disease tracking

I just found out about BioCaster, a tool made by people at my institute. It tracks news in real time and lets you view the spread of diseases geographically. I’ve seen similar services before (related to swine flu, etc), but this one lets you break down the data by disease and even by symptoms. Asahi Shinbun […]

Posted 15 May 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,