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Usability in the Movies: Top 10 Bloopers (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

lysander07 — 2012-12-08T14:08:56+01:00

User interfaces in film are more exciting than they are realistic, and heroes have far too easy a time using foreign systems.

Google makes more money from ads than print media combined | Internet & Media - CNET News

lysander07 — 2012-11-13T06:36:45+01:00

The search giant generated $10.9 billion in ad revenue in the first six months of 2012, while newspapers and magazines in the U.S. made $10.5 billion, according to Statista.

Updated database landscape graphic — Too much information

lysander07 — 2012-11-04T10:35:18+01:00

infographic on current database landscape - sql, nosql, relational, graph, etc.

BBC's Adoption of Semantic Web Technologies: An Interview

lysander07 — 2012-11-04T10:26:12+01:00

The BBC’s website for the 2010 World Cup was notable for the raw amount of rich information that it contained. Every player on every team in every group had their own web page, and the ease with which you could navigate from one piece of content to the next was remarkable. Within the Semantic Web community, the website was notable for one more reason: it was made possible by the BBC’s embrace of Semantic Web technologies.. Topic: Information Management

RDFa

lysander07 — 2012-10-28T16:59:50+01:00

More information about RDFa

6th Tele-Task Symposium

lysander07 — 2012-10-12T11:59:38+02:00

On October 8-9, 2012 we were glad to attend the tele-TASK Symposium at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam. It was the 6th event of the series, where practitioners and researchers came together to discuss innovative technologies and methodologies for online learning.

How Search & Social Engines Are Using Semantic Search

lysander07 — 2012-09-27T18:56:14+02:00

The term “Semantic Search” is certainly not new. However, it has taken on a new dimension and implications in both search and social engines today. In addition, it has had a strong impact on targeted semantic advertising.

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel and the Secret of his Philosophy

lysander07 — 2012-08-27T16:05:37+02:00

On August 27, 1770, German theological philosopher Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel was born, who is counted as the creator of German idealism.

Fred Hoyle and the Big Bang Theory

lysander07 — 2012-08-20T19:06:02+02:00

Sir Fred Hoyle, born in 1915 was a famous astronomer, mathematician, and author. The scientist was the first to coin the term "Big Bang" for the now prevailing theory of the early development of the universe in 1949, even though he happened to be a strong opponent of this theory.

How High/Low Can You Go? - The Explorer Auguste Piccard

lysander07 — 2012-08-18T16:38:50+02:00

Scientists and explorers we are...to boldly go where no man has gone before. If there is one scientist, who might serve as the prototype of an bold explorer, then we have to consider Auguste Piccard, a Swiss professor of physics, who tried to explore the deepest depths of the sea as well as the extreme stratosphere of the earth. And he did this not only in theory, but by experiment (always including his own person).

Robert Fulton and the Steamship Company

lysander07 — 2012-08-17T17:06:52+02:00

From the invention of a new power source or engine up to a vehicle that applies this power source to move forward sometimes is only a small step. But, to become a commercial success, this step might take even decades. Just think of the oldest type of engine powered by steam.

How to Calculate Fortune - Jakob Bernoulli

lysander07 — 2012-08-16T15:44:34+02:00

The Swiss Bernoulli family is well known for their many offsprings who gained prominent merits in mathematics and physics in the 18th century. Jakob Bernoulli, born in 1654, is best known for his work Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Conjecture). In this work, published 8 years after his death in 1713 by his nephew Nicholas, Jakob Bernoulli described the known results in probability theory and in enumeration, including the application of probability theory to games of chance.

H. G. Wells and the Shape of Thing to Come

lysander07 — 2012-08-13T17:07:13+02:00

For sure you have seen the classic movie 'The Time Machine', where the Victorian epoch time traveller went to a future far, far away into the world of the future where the old struggle of good against evil will. Then, you also might have heard about the story, where aliens from Mars started war against earth, but finally are going to die because of earth's microbes. Or maybe also the story, when famous actor and director Orson Wells in 1938 produced a radio show from this story, which was mistaken by a lot of American people to be a true radio report about an alien invasion of the USA, causing a real life panic?

IBM and the Personal Computer

lysander07 — 2012-08-12T20:58:09+02:00

It all started on August 12, 1981. IBM presented the IBM 5150, the very first IBM personal computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform.

It's Computable - thanks to Alonzo Church

lysander07 — 2012-08-11T17:19:00+02:00

You know, the fact that you can read your email on a cell phone as well as on your desktop computer or almost any other computer connected to the internet, in principle is possible thanks to mathematician Alonzo Church, who gave the proof (together with Alan Turing) that everything that is computable on the simple model of a Turing Machine, also is computable with any other 'computer model'.

Henry Moseley and the Atomic Numbers

lysander07 — 2012-08-10T15:41:08+02:00

For sure you do remember that poster from your classroom with all the chemical elements ordered in the so-called periodic table. But, certainly only a few of you will have heard about Henry Moseley and his concept of the atomic numbers.

The Man Who Shrank the Globe - Frank Whittle

lysander07 — 2012-08-09T15:27:30+02:00

On this day in 1996 the British Royal Air Force engineer officer Sir Frank Whittle passed away. He was best known for inventing the turbojet engine for which he received the knighthood in 1948.

Victorian Poetry with Alfred Lord Tennyson

lysander07 — 2012-08-06T16:07:56+02:00

209 years ago today one of the most important English poets of the Victorian era was born, Alfred Lord Tennyson. The works of Alfred Lord Tennyson are best known for their close affinity with the English mythology and English history, they influenced the movement of the 19th century's Victorian Art as well as the Arts and Crafts Movement, which was to join art and handcraft using simple forms applied to mostly romantic or medieval styles.

On the Road with Bertha Benz

lysander07 — 2012-08-05T16:48:08+02:00

Without her husband knowing about it, Bertha Benz took her two sons on the first long distance car-trip ever performed today 124 years ago.

Mozart Got Married

lysander07 — 2012-08-04T17:27:10+02:00

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the finest composers the world has ever known, had two great loves in his life: the first was music; and the second one was Constanze Weber, whom he married in Vienna on August 4, 1782. She was 20, he was 26.