Identifier: H2020-EUJ-2014Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the tab 'Call docume … | Continue reading
Identifier: ERC-2014-SUPPORT-1Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: ERC-SUPPORT-2014(CSA) | Continue reading
Well it’s finally arrived, the latest programming language to get us all excited has an official, well not 100% official but pretty much there, version number. SWIFT 1.0 is here folks! Swift has be… | Continue reading
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Scholarships for the Oct 29-31 Practical Object-Oriented Design Course (POODNC) in Durham, NC have been awarded! Winners are listed below, but before I introduce them I'd like to give an overview of the applicant pool and selection process. I'll be awarding scholarships for futu … | Continue reading
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs | Continue reading
More and more often, folks have been asking about how I became an engineer, what my “story” is. So, in the effort to save time and breath, here it is.TL;DR: I have a business degree, and started teaching myself how to code in the fall of 2011.Started in Business In high school, I … | Continue reading
More and more often, folks have been asking about how I became an engineer, what my “story” is. So, in the effort to save time and breath, here it is.TL;DR: I have a business degree, and started teaching myself how to code in the fall of 2011.Started in Business In high school, I … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we follow-up on Episode 15’s console discussion, and then dive into the Apple Watch introduction. We cover why we were disappointed in the presentation, and discuss the luxury market in Asia and why the Edition will cost thousands of dollars. And then we go … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we follow-up on Episode 15’s console discussion, and then dive into the Apple Watch introduction. We cover why we were disappointed in the presentation, and discuss the luxury market in Asia and why the Edition will cost thousands of dollars. And then we go … | Continue reading
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On the 12th September 2014, at the Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) in Zurich (Switzerland) Paul Chippendale gave a 20 minute presentation about the VENTURI funded research relating to the 2nd year prototype that focused on a Personal Shopping Assistance … | Continue reading
Medical search engines are used everyday by both medical practitioners and the public to find the latest medical literature and guidance regarding conditions and treatments. Importantly, the information needs that drive medical search can vary between users for the same query, as … | Continue reading
Medical search engines are used everyday by both medical practitioners and the public to find the latest medical literature and guidance regarding conditions and treatments. Importantly, the information needs that drive medical search can vary between users for the same query, as … | Continue reading
Event detection and tracking using social media and user-generated content has received a lot of attention from the research community in recent years, since such sources can purportedly provide up-to-date information about events as they evolve, e.g. earthquakes. Concisely repor … | Continue reading
Event detection and tracking using social media and user-generated content has received a lot of attention from the research community in recent years, since such sources can purportedly provide up-to-date information about events as they evolve, e.g. earthquakes. Concisely repor … | Continue reading
I've been teaching a fair amount, which means I've been revisiting my 'class problems' regularly. When I chose the problems, I thought that I understood them completely (hubris, I know) but now that I've worked them repeatedly I'm seeing new and surprising things. These new thing … | Continue reading
Glen Maddern: This is one of the key benefits of this approach. The presence of an attribute, e.g. am-Button, can and should be styled. The particular values of each attribute then alter and adapt these base styles. A maioria dos estilos de escrita atuais, em especial a metodolog … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss James’ first ever trip to Burning Man, ugliness in modern culture and on the Internet, the new divide in politics, and ultimately why we have hope for the future. Links Grover Norquist: My First Burning Man: Confessions of a Conservative from Was … | Continue reading
Between the 1st and 5th of September, Lorenzo Porzi from FBK presented a paper on “Personalizing a Smartwatch-based Gesture Interface with Transfer Learning” at the European Signal Processing Conference. The paper was presented in the Signal Processing Applications poster session … | Continue reading
I’m starting to think that the ramp up in sapphire production from Apple isn’t about a screen, but TouchID sensors on every Apple product… | Continue reading
If you're using filamentgroup's grunticon to inline SVG icons in your workflow and you're minifying them with svgmin before you're running Grunticon (as you should), you may run into broken PNG fallback images that are output by Grunticon. The bug: the PNGs contain a big blob of … | Continue reading
On the occasion of The Best in Heritage event, the eCult Observatory organises its third Dialogue Day on 25 September 2014 in Dubrovnik. The aim of the eCult Dialogue Days is to foster the communic… | Continue reading
Sörby gård and Lärkstugan in the beginning and end of the summer. Have some thoughts? Send me an email. | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss whether or not consoles will be disrupted. This episode was recorded a week ago (immediately after last week’s episode), before Ben wrote his pieces Games and Good Enough and Games and New Market Disruption. Links Ben Thompson: How Apple TV Might … | Continue reading
Popular microblogging services, such as Twitter, are engaging millions of users who constantly post and share information about news and current events each day, resulting in millions of messages discussing what is happening in the world. To help users obtain an overview of micro … | Continue reading
Popular microblogging services, such as Twitter, are engaging millions of users who constantly post and share information about news and current events each day, resulting in millions of messages discussing what is happening in the world. To help users obtain an overview of micro … | Continue reading
I saw the Mailbox beta launch the other day and felt this urge to get on board. I was excited like in the old days when new apps and services made me nervous like a little kid before christmas. But somewhere deep inside it didn't feel true anymore. I stopped my "early-adopter car … | Continue reading
It’s high time I wrote this post. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. It was part of my first year expat resolutions. But of course I missed the appointment with my first year. | Continue reading
On the 28th August, Elisa Ricci presented a paper at the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stockholm (Sweden) ICPR is an international forum to discuss recent advances in the fields of Pattern Recog-nition; Machine Learning and Computer Vision and on applicati … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SMEInst-2014-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014Latest information: Please note the release of the Flash Info on the 28th of August 2014. | Continue reading
I'm working on Kirby 2 for almost two years now. It started as a small wish to make the first version a bit better and has become a major personal effort, which takes all my time and concentration. It's no longer about iterating over the first version. I'm under constant pressure … | Continue reading
We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. … | Continue reading
We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. … | Continue reading
For entertainment, I’m learning assembler on Linux. | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we spend a good bit of time revisiting the native ads discussion, then dive into the different ways that Twitter and Facebook have handled the news this week. From there we discuss Twitter’s timeline changes, the realities of venture capital, and whether or … | Continue reading
I've updated my Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn sample app to the latest version of Jekyll available (2.3.0). It now have all the latest features from Jekyll! I also added a Heroku Button. So you can deploy your own version of the Jekyll site to a new app on your Heroku account with ju … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss feedback about Ben’s Android criticism, then dive into Andreessen Horowitz’s $50 million investment into BuzzFeed. Is there a real business here? We also discuss native advertising: Ben is quite a bit more optimistic than James. Links Ben Thompso … | Continue reading
Just like the ebb and flow, trends in webdesign come and go. Some of them set the foundation for future trends, some are just one-hit wonders. Butterflies following the mouse, scroll effects, textures, shadows, rounded corners, bubbly buttons, bouncy animations, cards, material d … | Continue reading