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About Ed Gottsman
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Ed Gottsman is a senior researcher with Accenture Technology Labs, the technology research and development (R&D) organization within Accenture. He joined Accenture in 1985 and was involved in expert systems and object-oriented programming - both hot topics in the IT industry back then. His research interests today include information visualization and the future of the online catalog. One of his most recent projects was the Information Source which uses a high-density interface to enable users to view up to 50,000 documents from the ZDNet whitepaper directory.
For more information on the work of Accenture Technology Labs, visit www.accenture.com/techlabs.
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Ed Gottsman
For more information on the work of Accenture Technology Labs, visit www.accenture.com/techlabs.
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Waking up, calming down
Fujitsu is working on a steering wheel-mounted drowsiness sensor that will detect subtle changes in the driver's heart rate and respond with various wake-up calls, including opening the windows,...
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Bugs and boredom
No matter where you were, you'd have to assume you were being watched by invisible insects (there's a paranoid fantasy) and that videos of anything interesting would wind up on the Web.
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Grid Computing meets ET
Could you run your nightly batch cycle on your employees' PCs? Maybe save a bundle on hardware? Probably not. The technique is best for compute-intensive tasks--tasks that require lots of...
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Web 2.0 again: Prediction markets
I just ran across an article in the Wikipedia on prediction markets, of which I've long been a fan. Prediction markets' basic idea is to turn predictions ("Obama will win" and "McCain will win,"...
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Something you're going to want to smack
A magic box from GreenRoad Technologies (UK) will be installed in 200 military vehicles as part of a six-month trial to determine whether it's possible to detect bad driving and then intervene to...
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And your point would be?
A website called The Point ("Make Something Happen") provides a framework in which you can raise support for a cause. The cause may be as grand as getting an oil company to lower gas prices or as...
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Cozying up on Twitter
Twitter...yet again. Stephen Rose over at Fast Company has discovered a new use for the beast: Following the activities of business contacts with whom you want to ingratiate yourself. So What?...
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Displays: More is more
Display manufacturer NEC has released a report on monitor size and its relationship to productivity. Surprise: There's a positive correlation. Big surprise: for editing tasks (text and...
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Perfecting the potato
Today, a couch potato still needs to operate that remote, which keeps his right thumb fit and toned. Gaze tracking could make his potato-hood complete.
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Lollicams
According to The Register, there were 1,400 incidents of crossing guard abuse (driving past while they're in the road, revving engines, shouting epithets, etc.) reported in the UK last year....
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Perfecting the potato
New Scientist is reporting on new gaze tracking technology designed for use in 3D virtual worlds. Gaze tracking has been used for years by people with motor neurone disease, cerebral palsy and...
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REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing
The (narrow but very important) problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit old test...
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On polite police
The Register is reporting on a pilot program in the UK under which police officers will have video cameras sticking out of their helmets. The goal is to encourage good behavior on the part of...
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On being detained in Cairo
I've brought up Twitter before. Twitter is a micro-blogging service. You use it to "tweet" messages of no more than 140 characters. Your friends, colleagues and the general public can follow your...
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On owning your own bits
I recently got rid of my CD collection. It wasn't a big collection, as these things go: Maybe 200 discs. I didn't even need the shelf space...I just wanted to clear out an increasingly...
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WSJ cleverly coins 'Motorborg', creates jealous blogger
The Wall Street Journal reported recently on Inrix, Inc., a Kirkland, Washington-based Microsoft spinoff that tracks speeds on 100,000 miles of US highway using data from GPS-enabled fleet...
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Internet addiction: threat or menace?
An editorial in a recent issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry presents the case for "Internet addiction" as a legitimate disorder deserving of inclusion in the DSM. (The DSM is the...
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Ambient's strange necklace
New Scientist reported recently on a strange necklace that will soon be available from Ambient Corporation of Dallas, Texas. It has a package of sensors that pick up electrical impulses around the...
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Twitter, again
Last month, a colleague of mine attended the South by Southwest conference, a techno-lovefest that brings together software developers, graphic designers and a gaggle of luminaries of various...
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On the (mis-) use of DNA
Fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about the English/Welsh DNA database. We'll sneak up on it. The movie GATTACA always bugged me, or rather people's reaction to it did....
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