on new communication paradigms
In the last 5 years communication has gone from being massively dominated by e-mail, phones, IM and snail mail to…
on statutues of limitations in academic work
I was shooting the breeze with Geoff Challen in Zürich before we headed down to HotOS and we chatted about…
post PC meeting SOSP PC member talks
My advisor chaired SOSP this year and asked a bunch of the PC members to give talks about their work during the morning after the meeting. He did a similar…Continue Reading →
back-of-device interfaces
I was poking around the other day and I found this coverage of CHI 2009. A bunch of my friends…
self-healing polyurethane
Following on the self-healing rubber from a few months ago, new work (by different people) has made self healing polyurethane…
on journalism and newspapers
My mom is a career journalist and I’ve always been interested in journalism, even though the closest I’ve been has been as a graphic artist and IT person for a…Continue Reading →
on artificial eyes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7919645.stm The BBC posted this article describing a 73-year-old man who has been blind for nearly 30 years and is…
contest for better OpenWrt web interface
http://www.ubnt.com/challenge/ They’re offering $200,000 in prizes for new Web UIs for OpenWrt to run on their new router. That’s really…
classes of computers
A while back I was thinking about this whole cell phone, PDA, laptop, desktop thing with computers where we have stuff in different form factors which we use in different…Continue Reading →
has the academic computer systems community lost it's way?
I just got into a debate with a few friends about whether or not the current academic computer systems community…