You walk up to your computer and it says “Hi Peter”, unlocks the screen saver and lets you in. When you leave it, on comes the screensaver and the lock until your return. How cool is that? Well if you have a bluetooth phone, like the Sony Ericsson T68i and a neat piece of shareware…
Jiri Komzak presented a paper with Pavel Slavik at IV03 entitled “Scaleable GIS Data Transmission and Visualisation” Related Links: IV03
AS HOME to Britain's first public lending library Manchester is well placed to join the growing urban phenomenon known as “bookcrossing”. This Saturday the city's Urbis museum plans to place thousands of books – each bearing a sticker with a unique number registered on its official website – at shops, bars and bus stops, and…
'Instant messaging trialled to support study of German course' Please see KMi noticeboards to read the article, which appears in the July 2003 edition (issue 3). Related Links: online news (issue 3 not available at time of writing)
Yanna has been invited to HPLabs Bristol, at their NESTA FutureLab outpost, to present some ideas on live multiplayer gaming that could be deployed on next-generation wireless networks and devices. Her co-presenter is Bas Raijmakers, of the Interaction Design Lab at the Royal College of Art
Mike Clar, Matt Robinson, and Dave Gravell of ApplianSys visited Marc Eisenstadt, Martin Dzbor, and Jiri Komzak to discuss potential use of our BuddySpace client and Jabber server/client tools, modifications, and expertise, in conjunction with their 'IMBox 200' (secure instant messaging-in-a-box). Related Links: ApplianSys
The biggest distributor of the Linux computer system has waded into a row over claims that its creators have broken copyright by suing the company making the accusations. Red Hat, which sells a widely-used version of the open-source operating system, has started a fighting fund with a $1m donation intended to cover the costs of…
John Howard, Alison Hunter and Gordon McMullan from the BBC Digilab are visiting today. They are a small team in the BBC that looks at technology to help the BBC's staff share knowledge and communicate more effectively. They do this by bringing communities of practice together – both virtually and in real life – to…
Maria Macintyre's paper on research into online health communities has been nominated for the AoIR Student Prize at their 2003 conference. This will be the fourth conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, which is being held in Toronto, October 16-19, 2003. Related Links: Broadening the Band – AoIR 4
Prof Anthony Finkelstein and Prof Jeff Kramer came to visit John Domingue, accompanied by Profs Bashar Nuseibeh and Anne Deroeck of the OU Related Links: Prof Anthony FinkelsteinProf Jeff Kramer
