I just learned about Eduroam: Eduroam which stands for Education Roaming, is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming. Being part of eduroam allows users visiting another institution connected to eduroam to log on to the WLAN using the same credentialsusername and passwordthe user would use if he were [...]
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I am doing some background research for a paper on “active music” and have been testing various audio software over the last few days. I was very excited about testing GarageBand ’08, since Apple has been shouting loudly about its new “magic” features. I have to say that I had some expectations that we would [...]
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Everyone is working on solutions for creating semantic descriptors these days. The Norwegian book shop ønskebok.no gives the user the opportunity to choose from a set of three descriptors and it will give you a list of books to choose from. Some of the adjectives seem to be based on words from psychological studies on [...]
Read more →Earlier today I went to the release seminar of a new book on creativity and idea development called Slagkraft – Håndbok i idéutvikling by Erik Lerdahl. In his introduction, Erik Lerdahl stressed the importance of creativity not being something that happens by random, but rather that it is a “muscle” that can be trained. Nice [...]
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Came across Sumotori Dreams, a sumo wrestling game based on physical models. The movements of the wrestlers seem to be based on some kind of physical modelling, and their presence is astonishingly real and far-fetched at the same time. Great fun!
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