Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Thanks to Peter's Gekko’ tip on Using Firefox (and IE) to debug your apps in Visual Studio. It worked like a charm on first try however, after installing IE 7.0 beta, VS.NET started acting up. The debug process kept detaching from browser and upon resetting the debug project options to IE, it got fixed. Not…
I think I’m hung up on semantics again. This era of connected systems we live in, businesses highly rely on knowledge management to ‘know thy visitor’. All the consumer specific data they can get their hands on and all the possible customer trends which could be derived from this information are deemed as an asset…
After having a A huge leap forward to robotics R&D (my 10/05 post Autonomous land vehicles - drivers not required), DARPA has again raised the bar. Now entering the realm of “The real urban driving challenge” and the deadline is 3rd Nov 2007. Beside boundary conditions, how the machines would do? How well the artificial…
Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug http://www.hcibib.org http://www.useit.com/alertbox http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk http://www.usabilitynews.com Rainbow group from University of Cambridge Human Computer Interaction Resource Network Nielsen Norman group Stanford HCI Seminar’s Developer to Designer: GUI Design for the Busy Developer User Interface Design for Programmers Joel…
Last term during graduate course of HCI (Human computer interaction), my professor Dr. Maxine Cohen, a SUNY Ph.D. in Systems Science, created a WebCT forum thread called “HCI Resources”. Students were to post entries ranging from web based HCI resources to newspaper articles and books which they’ve found useful. Krug’s “Don’t make me think” subtitled…
An excellent Urdu / Raikhta master piece by Amir Khurso in my urdu blog.
So at least I’m keeping one of my new year’s resolutions so far, which was finishing up a book a week. As memory serves, my March and April readings are as follows. Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich The Last Juror: A Novel (Grisham, John (Large Print)) by John Grisham Christmas…
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is organizing an event by speaker Kazuhiro Otsaka , NTT on the topic of “Communication Scene Analysis Based on Probabilistic Modeling of Human Gaze Behavior”. This topic is a hotbed in the key HCI area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). AAC is to provide access to technology…
In London on June 10, 2003, as a BCS student volunteer I attended a day long conference tutorial tracks on “Executable Translatable UML” and “MDA Distilled” by Stephen J. Mellor. This one day workshop was organized by LogOn technology transfer, now Lufthansa Technical training and OMG (Object Management Group). Mr. Mellor is founder and Vice…
After Arfa Karim Randhawa - former Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, now we have Babar Iqbal, as youngest Microsoft Certified Professional The battle is on...