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    blog@CACM started by Jo Vermeulen
    Apparantely, there’s a Communications of the ACM group blog now, called blog@CACM. There is also a blog roll that includes the blog of Daniel Lemire, which happens to be one of my favorite research blogs. Although Daniel works in a different subdiscipline of computer science, I
    New homepage started by Jo Vermeulen
    I finally updated my homepage today. It used to be a custom Rails website, with RHTML views that I edited through SSH. I never got around to create a database model for my website, and to be frank, I am glad that I didn’t since my homepage’s structure changed a lot. On
    Australian conference and journal ranking started by Jo Vermeulen
    Just read an interesting post on Albrecht Schmidt’s blog about the Australian conference ranking.

    No big surprises in the list of course, but nevertheless interesting to have a look at. The big problem (at least in Belgium) seems to be that the rankings used for university fu
    MIT Media Lab wearable projector prototype started by Jo Vermeulen
    Lode pointed me to an interesting article on Wired about research done at the Fluid Interfaces group of MIT Media Lab. The article was based on the recent TED Talk by Prof. dr. Pattie Maes (who is a Belgian by the way :-)).

    In their prototype, the user carries a wearable projector tha
    How to efficiently perform a literature review started by Jo Vermeulen
    Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
    – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986)

    I got the idea to document the way I read papers from a discussion with Lode (he uses mos
    Integrating Disqus with a Ruby Site started by jonnyma
    Hi Guys,

    I tried out Disqus recently really wanted to use it in a Ruby site that I have already made. I downloaded the ruby gem made by njclarke, but am pretty clueless as to how the integration works. Has anyone done this witht their own ruby projects? Could someone walk me through the integration process?

    Thanks so much,

    Jon
    Making things talk started by Jo Vermeulen
    A few weeks ago I came across a blog post by Cati Vaucelle about Making Things Talk, the new book by Tom Igoe. The book deals with building smart, communicating things. It is built up out of specific projects and uses practical examples to explain different technologies. Tom works at NYU ITC (
    Going further in geo visualization started by Jo Vermeulen
    I read an article about Everyscape. Everyscape tries to give its users an immersive experience by stitching together a set of panoramic photographs, in contrast with the satellite imagery that is being used by other tools such as Google Earth. I played a bit with the NY demo and was pretty impress
    In Traction » About started by Jo Vermeulen
    In Traction » About started by Jo Vermeulen
    VR: after the hype started by Jo Vermeulen
    Lode wrote in his last post (amongst others) about the fact that the hype of Virtual Reality is over. This doesn’t have to be negative in my opinion. Maybe having a fresh (and more realistic?) view on virtual reality and its possible uses can help.

    As a comparison, look
    Goodbye to an old friend started by Jo Vermeulen
    Today I traded in my old, trusty 1992 (third generation) VW Passat. It used to be my parent’s car, which I took over in 2001. It was a very reliable car, I never had big problems with it besides the normal wearing out of some parts. It had more than 357000 kms on the counter.%0
    Homepage migrated started by Jo Vermeulen
    The last couple of days I have been working on a new, fresh design for my homepage. It was quite hard, since I’m far from a good designer. I have to experiment a lot before I end up with something that I really like, while Luk for example can come up with something astounding withi
    New blog, website, web host and domain started by Jo Vermeulen
    This all started when I wanted to create a new blog.

    Typo seemed impressive. However, it required Ruby on Rails, which wasn’t supported on Lumumba. I figured it would be cool to redesign my homepage with Rails as well, so that I could dynamically add content, and more tightl
    Wendy Ju’s implicit interaction framework started by Jo Vermeulen
    I recently read an interesting CSCW 2008 paper by Wendy Ju: Range: Exploring Implicit Interaction through Electronic Whiteboard Design. She describes a framework for implicit interaction and applies it to the design of an interactive whiteboard application called Range.



    The paper is situated in the field of ubiquitous computing. The goal of Mark Weiser’s vision [...]
    Playing around with pybluez started by Jo Vermeulen
    We received our new laptops this week. Since they support Bluetooth (just as about any laptop these days), I decided to experiment a bit with detecting nearby Bluetooth devices. A while ago I discovered PyBluez, an easy-to-use Python Bluetooth library by MIT PhD student Albert Huang. The nice thing about it is that it works [...]
    http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6pcpw started by Jo Vermeulen
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    Small update on face detection post started by Jo Vermeulen
    Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection started by Jo Vermeulen
    I had some fun with Gary Bishop’s OpenCV Python wrapper this morning. I wanted to try out OpenCV for detecting faces using a web cam. This could be used for instance to see if someone is sitting behind his desk or not. I used Gary’s Python wrapper since I didn’t want to code in C++.

    I [...]
    Bzr vs git, the sequel started by Jo Vermeulen
    A while ago I noticed Jordan Mantha repeated my old bzr vs git benchmark.

    I was curious to see if things changed. It seemed that both systems have improved in speed, but there were no shocking results.

    There are some differences between our experiments though. Jordan wonders how long it took for me to commit my changes [...]
    AVI 2008 started by Jo Vermeulen
    Although it’s a bit late (almost a month after the facts), I finally found some time to blog about Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2008 in Naples, where Jan presented our paper about Gummy.



    I liked it very much: the conference had good quality papers but was still reasonably small (around 150 attendants), and of course the [...]
    EDM News started by Jo Vermeulen
    It’s been a while since my last post, so this is a quick update of what’s been happening lately.

    On Monday and Tuesday the TAMODIA 2006 workshop was hosted at our institute. I joined a few interesting sessions. It was nice to meet again a lot of people I saw earlier this year at CADUI 2006. [...]
    Domain name problems started by Jo Vermeulen
    I had some problems lately with my domain (jozilla.be). The guys who I registered it with didn’t answer any mails, nor did they answer any phone calls. I was lucky once to speak to someone from support, who told me everything would be taken care off if I deposited another 4 Euro’s to get the […]
    Demo video of a Smalltalk environment started by Jo Vermeulen
    Just a quick update to my previous post. I can imagine that my post about the advantages of Smalltalk might be a bit abstract for people who never used it.

    So here’s a short demo video of a Solitaire game running in a Smalltalk environment. It clearly illustrates features such as full introspection (e.g. by using […]
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