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Business & Technology | UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips | Seattle Ti... - 0 views

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shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
  • Our objective is to create a future world where RFID is everywhere and figure out problems we'll run into before we get there,
  • For more than a year, a dozen researchers have carried around RFID tags equipped with tiny computer chips that store an identification number unique to each tag. Researchers installed about 200 antennas throughout the computer-science building that pick up any tag near them every second.
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  • The system can show when people leave the office, when they return, how often they take breaks, where they go and who's meeting with whom,
  • if people don't see the tags, it's easy to forget they are giving out information whenever they come within range of a reader.
  • how to make the technology useful while protecting privacy
  • The system is transparent, so each can tell if the other has checked his whereabouts.
  • Users can search the calendar to jog their memories about when they last saw someone or how, where and with whom they spent their time.
    • Peter Ruwoldt
      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      I can see these things being useful. Like the idea of transparency
  • have been designed to divulge more information than necessary, opening the door to security and privacy problems
  • There's no reason to have remotely readable technology in a driver's license," Borriello said. He recommends a system that requires contact with the surface of a reader, so the license-holder knows when information on his license is being read.
    • Peter Ruwoldt
      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Ethical issues to choose the right technology for the problem. Good point
  • data from radio tags can be pieced together to offer a detailed profile of a person's habits without his or her knowledge.
  • People don't understand the implications of information they're giving out," Borriello said. "They can be linked together to paint a picture, one you didn't think you were painting."
    • Peter Ruwoldt
      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Critical for people to be street smart. Important role for schools
  • Last year, the number of police requests for information from London's RFID-based transit card rose from four per month to 100
  • It's important to understand what the technology can do and we, collectively, have to decide what we're going to use it for
  • As soon as it becomes widely used, then it's more attractive and people start attacking it," showing its vulnerabilities, Borriello said. The trouble is "by that time, it's hard to change.
    • Peter Ruwoldt
      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Good that someone is being proactive about this.
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
     
    The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
Peter Ruwoldt

Togelius: Automatic Game Design - 0 views

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shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 16 Jan 09 - Cached
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    "What makes games fun? Some (e.g. Raph Koster) claim that fun is learning - fun games are those which are easy to learn, but hard to master, with a long and smooth learning curve. I think we can create fun game rules automatically through measuring their learnability. In a recent experiment, we do this using evolutionary computation, and create some simple Pacman-like new games completely without human intervention! Perhaps this has a future in game design? The academic paper (PDF) is available as well."
Greg Willcocks

Future Student numbers in IT - 12 views

The statistics are leading us to the fact - we are shrinking! Is it true? What can we do at school level? What facts will convince students and parents that we can provide an excellent career path

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Peter Ruwoldt

HTML5 Could Be the OS Killer - Business Center - PC World - 0 views

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SASSIT programming issues FOSS

shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Jun 09
     
    Its focus on running applications within the browser is an important driver of interest in cloud computing, where applications live somewhere off on the Internet and are delivered by the browser. The focus of future browsers will shift from "going places" to "doing things." This will be a boon to free operating systems, which will increasingly be able to hide themselves under the browser user interface. While Windows and Mac OSX won't go away overnight, the pressure on them will be to innovate beyond the browser, perhaps through a common set of extensions for HTML5 applications to use.
Peter Ruwoldt

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Year 1999 A.D. - 0 views

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computer concepts future history sassit video

shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08
     
    Video clip from the 1960's projecting what computer in 1999 would be like
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