Links
1. Enabling always Available input with Muscle computer interfaces
Looks like Microsoft is working on things more cooler than Natal. The link is that of a YouTube demo. I haven’t got around reading their paper, but the idea is cool !!.
2. The Card Game – How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market
This was an interesting article from NYT talking about card fees of Visa and how it used it to become the dominant player in the field. Do you think there is no difference between entering the pin or signing after swiping a debit card ? Read this article !!
3. Introduction to Computational Advertising
The link is that of a course from Stanford for Computation Advertising. I have read some papers on Sponsored Search Auction , but this is way too cool. I especially like their project ideas. I have not read all their slides carefully, but its interesting.I came to this class after reading this and this post.
4. What does it mean to “Like” a status update?
This article talks about the difference between liking a Facebook post/ retweeting a tweet or liking in FriendFeed.
5. New and improved RNA interference
An article on MIT’s research where they talk about RNA interference and a new way to silence the problematic genes . This research is exciting because the genes can be cancer causing !!. The scientists claim that they can silence multiple genes in a single drug delivery.
6. Michael Schapira: Internet Routing, Distributed Computation, Game Dynamics and Mechanism Design I
A post by Michael Schapira on a game theoretic analysis of Interdomain Routing , BGF and issues like network stability.
7. DBMS Musings : 2009′s top blog posts
The top blog posts of 2009 from Daniel Abadi’s blog. The three posts he suggests are really good.
Have A Nice Week Ahead !!
