From the smoking cauldrons in Arlington comes an effort to track every electronic, and some not so electronic, bit of data surrounding a persons life. The electronic data mesh this conceives would be capable of making incredible connections between information, the needs for which are being questioned by government and private agencies alike…
Wired News: A Spy Machine of DARPA’s Dreams
Here is a list of links which explain, in increasing levels of sophistication, an initiative which is attempting to make sense of the glut of information on the web.
The plan is to make it so computer programs can make logical assumptions and relationships between resources on the Web based on the semantics of their content. It is referred to as the Semantic Web.
The links that follow provide a gentle, if not brief, introduction to this initiative.
Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing…
The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders.
In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are found in the first 5 subjects as espoused by many Usability pundits, and 2) Does the same test run with a different sample reveal the same defects. The answer seems to be no.
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