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The RFID Hacking Underground

2006-07-15T18:18:00.000-07:00

They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground.

Hmm...electronics. Interesting reading including David Molnar from Berkeley and Oakland libraries.

How Bill Gates works

2006-04-14T13:17:00.000-07:00

How I Work: Bill Gates

A short piece on the technology on Bill's desk.
- not a lot of paper
- big screens
- tablet pc
- and a whiteboard's still there

Vodafone's Future

2005-09-02T18:25:00.000-07:00

Check out:
http://www.vodafone.com/flash/futures

to have a glimpse at what Vodafone envisages in the next decade or so...
+jono

conference at uc irvine

2005-04-12T13:43:00.000-07:00

Consider submitting a poster to this conference at UC Irvine on June 3rd.

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Institute for Software Research (ISR) Graduate Student Research Forum (GSRF) is an event “for students by students”. Both the program and organizing committee for the first annual GSRF are entirely composed of graduate students from universities across California.

The primary goal of the Forum is to foster community and expose possibilities for inter-disciplinary collaborations by providing an opportunity for students researching various dimensions of software and information technology to come together, meet, interact, and discuss their activities with a diverse group of their peers. Specific areas of interest are listed below, but generally fall in the broader categories of software engineering, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, social computing, and arts computation and engineering.

Participating students will receive valuable feedback useful in shaping their current research and informing their future research activities. To further promote interaction, we will also be hosting a competition for “Best Inter-Disciplinary Project Idea” among all participants and attendees focusing on the formulation of novel research directions.

The deadline is April 22.

SMS tickets

2005-03-16T09:40:00.000-08:00

Mobile phone becomes train ticket

Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket.

Does anyone know memetika?

2005-03-11T10:14:00.000-08:00

memetika
It says it's social network software but right at the early stages. Has anyone used it? Is it any good? They have a pretty intense privacy policy including:

By submitting or otherwise making available materials to public areas of Memetika. you agree that Memetika will at all times maintain a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, assignable right and license to reproduce, repurpose, use, store, modify, edit, distribute or make available any portion or portions of such materials as they see fit in any medium, now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, subject only to the terms set forth in these Terms of Service.

Makes me not want to submit anything...+jono

Colorization Using Optimization

2005-03-10T17:34:00.000-08:00

Colorization Using Optimization

In this paper we present a simple colorization method that requires neither precise image segmentation, nor accurate region tracking. Our method is based on a simple premise: neighboring pixels in space-time that have similar intensities should have similar colors.

In our approach an artist only needs to annotate the image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully colorized image or sequence.

Pretty cool
+jono

Big Brother's New Way to Watch You

2005-02-14T08:14:00.000-08:00

A note on privacy

" a federal judge ruled the [GPS tracking device] data could be used against Moran, saying that he had no expectation of privacy while driving on public roads."

Insitute of Design talk March 1st, SF

2005-02-11T17:17:00.000-08:00

Institute of Design Strategy Workshop
If a little pricey...

Overview
Themes like "total user-experience" and "reliable methods of innovation" are becoming important to business, and business leaders are increasingly looking to design to help in these areas (for an example, see this recent article in Business Week). The challenge for both designers and business managers is to find methods and frameworks for bringing the two groups together. To meet this challenge, there needs to be an increase both in business leaders' expectations of design and in designers' abilities to link the creation of user value to the creation of economic value.

This program will bring together designers and managers from engineering, marketing and other fields who want to help identify ways that design can be used in a more strategic way than it normally is. It will start with short presentations and panel discussion covering a range of topics, including:

# Design and entrepreneurship
# Designing services
# Designing the business
# Educating executives about design
# New initiatives from the business press and associations
# A new joint publication between IIT and I.D. Magazine about design and strategy

These will be followed by a workshop where participants will contribute ideas that can help design practice, design education and the people writing about design. These ideas will be captured and shared with the participants and others who can make use of them.

+Jono

Digital guru floats sub-$100 PC

2005-02-08T17:58:00.000-08:00

Digital guru floats sub-$100 PC

He said one laptop per child could be " very important to the development of not just that child but now the whole family, village and neighbourhood".

+Jono

BI meeting Mondays

2005-01-31T15:01:00.000-08:00

Berkeley Innovation 7-9 tonight

It looks like this is a reasonable time for the BI folks. If it's a problem for any BiD folks then just let me know
Thanks,
+Jono

Dublin hi-tech labs to shut down

2005-01-18T16:44:00.000-08:00

BBC - Media Labs Europe

Game Design as critical practice - Mon 24th Jan, 7.30-9pm

2005-01-18T16:29:00.000-08:00

Making and Breaking Rules: Game Design as Critical Practice
Monday 24th Jan
Monday Evenings, 7:30-9:00pm
160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley

Despite their commercial explosion in pop cultural, games remain largely unexplored as a critical practice with social and cultural dimensions. Why are games important? What kinds of games "break the rules" of mainstream computer and video games? How can making, playing, and studying games illuminate larger social and cultural issues?

This talk will focus on a range of projects created by the two speakers, including games designed to be played in conferences, offices, and urban spaces. Discussing their ideas, their processes, and the games they make, Katie and Eric will address topics in design, complex systems, emergent complexity, collaboration, competition, social play, and games as interventions into urban spaces and everyday life. Come to their talk prepared to play!

+jono

International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society

2005-01-17T16:14:00.000-08:00

International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society

Welcome to website of the International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society. To be held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA,18-20 February 2005, the conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. Main speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations

+jono

Platforms for Social Innovation

2005-01-11T13:34:00.000-08:00

Doors of Perception 8

What infrastructures are needed to enable bottom-up, edge-in social innovation? And how do we design them? Doors of Perception 8 is about these two questions.

Doors is a worldwide design and innovation network whose aim is to learn how to design services, some of them enabled by information technology, that meet basic needs in new ways. Every two years or so, the network meets to share the results of its work with citizens, education, industry and professionals.

+jono

pervasive computing in sports

2005-01-02T18:34:00.000-08:00

CFP

IEEE Pervasive Computing invites articles relating to the use of pervasive computing in sports to enhance the sport (or game) and/or experiences for players, spectators, and/or judges. We hope to span a wide range of sports including single-player, multi-player, and large team sports as well as activities ranging from track and field to indoor team sports to racing. We especially welcome papers that bridge multiple aspects of a system, report on the challenges of integration and deployment, and report on usage experience.

social bookmarking

2004-12-30T13:07:00.000-08:00

Has anyone tried this?

del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

CHI 05 Workshop: Engaging The City: Public Interfaces As Civic Intermediary

2004-12-16T10:30:00.000-08:00

As interest in the city as a viable site for HCI research grows, the organizers of this workshop aim to shift the research perspective from the architect's plan view to the street level. No longer reducing the city to a dense population of users, we challenge our participants to consider the city not just as a backdrop for interactions but as an inalienable part of interactions that happen within it. By reorienting ourselves, we move beyond the city as a muse to the city as a resource for public exchange.

This workshop is designed to explore notions of exchange within an urban landscape.
What relationships do we have with the city?
What do we give and take from it and each other in its embrace?
How is this exchange enacted in and upon the city in everyday life?
And how can technological innovation capture or foster this exchange?

The challenge for the HCI community is to design public interfaces that provide citizens with more active access, authorship, and agency. The workshops field research component will involve visiting the city of Portland as a case study for processing and refining these theoretical considerations.

We would like to gather a representative group of social scientists, technologists, urban planners, architects, artists, and des igners whose work addresses issues of shared public interfaces and interactions. Participants will be selected based on a demonstrated interest in the topic, seen through position papers that consist of:

* A discussion of background, interests, current work and relevance to workshop goals.
* An object/image/idea which represents an active exchange with the city
* Participants should be prepared to demonstrate this item's context within the theoretical framework of access, agency, and authorship.

Send submissions (Word or PDF) or questions to Michele Chang

Also see: http://hciresearch.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/engaging_cities/

=chris

Carefully Analyzed Crackpotism

2004-12-15T15:03:00.000-08:00

Fall 2004 Interface Show
California College of the Arts
Oakland campus
Friday 17 Dec
7-10 PM

Exploring New Media artwork in all its incarnations, students from five graduate and undergraduate classes from the Media Arts and Sculpture Programs will present kinetic sculpture, robotic works, interactive environments, computer-aided performances, chaotic video games, and electro-acoustic audio pieces. Work will be shown in the Oliver Art Center, Nahl Hall, the Isabel Percy West Gallery, and the third floor of Founder's Hall. A reception will be held in the Oliver Art Center during the exhibition.

NPD Tradeshow this Saturday

2004-12-14T18:43:00.000-08:00

For those who are still around the "New Product Development" class is having its end of semester tradeshow this Saturday.

Details:
Saturday 18th
10.30am -12.00
Wells Fargo room (Cheit hall), Haas

There's 17 different graduate projects from multidisciplinary teams of 4-5 members from Engineering, MBAs, CS, California College of Arts, SIMS and others.

You're all welcome to drop-by and see the projects. Food and drinks are provided.
+Jono

Berkeley Exoskeleton in NYT

2004-12-13T09:18:00.000-08:00

See: Berkeley Exoskeleton

Exoskeleton Strength
By NOAH SHACHTMAN

Published: December 12, 2004

Last Grouptalk - Mon 5th Dec 12-1pm 107 South Hall

2004-12-05T11:41:00.000-08:00

If you've been to a Grouptalk this semester then please come along for a last one tomorrow where we will discuss the Nature and format of Grouptalk and how to improve it for next semester. Thanks!
(and, as always, refreshments provided)
+Jono

Privacy and RFIDs in the library

2004-12-02T10:27:00.000-08:00

Talk today, Thurs Dec 2nd, at 4.30 Gates 4-B

David Molnar seminar

David Molnar, Berkeley
Privacy and Security in Library RFID

+Jono

DUX talk - Wed Dec 8th 7-9.30pm

2004-11-29T14:44:00.000-08:00

The Future of Digital Product Design

If anybody may go please let me know!
+Jono

Police Officer User Interface problems

2004-11-18T01:00:00.000-08:00

Wanted by the Police: A Good Interface
NYTimes
+Jono