I found this article about people from Cornell University creating a powerful computer program that was able, due to some major calculations, to figure some scientific laws of physics such as the Newtonian Laws. It’s pretty cool to know that a program could do that and that in the future it might be able to …
Monthly Archive: July 2009
Jul
14
Bimanual Pen and Direct Touch Interaction
In this paper, a study was conducted to analyze the benefits of using both touch and pen interactions in the same application. They focused on the advantages and disadvantages of using the touch and pen in both the dominant hand and non-dominant hand in different applications, trying to combine the positive qualities of each input …
Jul
14
Become a fan of UNH ECE on Facebook
Are you on Facebook? If yes, check out the UNH ECE page: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire Promote Your Page Too
Jul
08
Gaze Tracking and Monitor Privacy
While perusing through my daily RSS Reader, I came across this slashdot article that refers to a company called Oculis Labs. They have two products that utilize eye tracking techniques to keep information on the screen private to just the user, the PrivateEye (geared towards commercial users) and the Chameleon (geared towards the military). They …
Jul
07
Twittruth
For everyone with a Twitter account, there’s a new service called TwitTruth that can tell you details about your use of the social networking site. Unlike tools that analyze publicly available tweets, this application asks for access to your account and then analyzes if you’ve been tweeting links, re-tweeting, or just updating followers on your …