Apr 30, 2009
I want to applause with four hands that I don't have the speaker in this video.
Dennis Wixon (Microsoft Surface) brings in this video an approach to predicting the future of any technology.
His field of expertise is Human Machine Interaction, but the scientific approach he uses to foresee the coming technologies is really universal.
Select a field, look deeply at the evolutions in the past that brought to the the ...
Nov 9, 2008
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Research Asia organize every year a conference called "Computing in the 21st century". The subtitle was "New Horizon of Computing".
This year's version had no less than 3 Turing award winners (Turing awards are something like the Nobel Prize of computing), the Senior Vice President of Microsoft, and a Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia and at the same time IEEE fellow (a very prestigious ...
Oct 21, 2008
The financial crisis is expected to foster larger efforts in software security. This (not so) new finding about physical hacking (retrieving electromagnetic signal) however suggests that efforts will have to be made on the hardware as well. In the case of keyboards, it should not be anything too hard. Coating everything with a thin layer of metal and injecting electromagnetic noise to this shield should be enough. I ...
Jul 29, 2008
Although Singapore and more specifically NUS seems to have absolutely NO IDEA what Linux is, you may want to set up Linux on your desk at some point of time. And a few days later you will, like me, realize you have not set your lab's printer and start struggle with that. I did, so you no need lah, just follow this:
The printer is shared on a PC ...
Jun 13, 2008
There is 3 mobile phone networks in Singapore, by order of popularity :
Singtel
Starhub
M1
They are said to be equivalent, I haven't really been through a serious study of their prices, I was at Starhub and paid on average 36 S$ per month for ton of sms and quite a lot of phone calls.
Networks here haven't yet started selling bulk sms and minutes to subcontractors unlike they did in France ...
Mar 22, 2008
Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail.
I ...
Mar 21, 2008
Pour la 18e année consécutive, un jury américain a décerné, le 6 mars, les Jolt Awards, qui récompensent les meilleures solutions de développement des 12 derniers mois. Voici les lauréats.
>> La suite...
Mar 18, 2008
La société de services informatiques invite les candidats à développer leur propre application Facebook, dans le cadre du concours « AppliChallenge ».
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Mar 11, 2008
Le directeur de la sécurité informatique de l'Otan s'est exprimé lors de l'E-Crime Congress. Selon lui, une attaque contre des infrastructures réseau peut avoir de graves conséquences.
http://www.01net.com/editorial/373884/le-cybercrime-aussi-devastateur-qu-un-tir-de-missiles/
Mar 8, 2008
There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I (the original author) decided to create this one. If you know a method that is not listed below, just let us know and we’ll update it.
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ways-to-make-money-online-with-website/