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A little University humor to lighten the load this week. This is the sort of thing that is painfully funny to anyone who has ever tried to get a paper published on their own. If that's not you, you can just look forward to that day....

How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 1 2 3 Easy Steps

Congratulations to Informatics graduate student Mohamad Monibi and Informatics faculty member Don Patterson on having their paper, 'Collaborative Predictions from Status' accepted to Ambient Intelligence 2009.

Abstract: In this paper we describe the use of collaborative filtering to make predictions about place using data from custom instant messaging status. Previous research has shown accurate predictions can be made from an individual’s personal data. The work in this paper demonstrates that community data can be used to make predictions in locations that are completely new to a user.

Congratulations to Informatics faculty member Don Patterson on having his paper, 'Constructing Topological Maps of Displays with 3-D Positioning Information' accepted to Ambient Intelligence 2009.

Abstract: To better coordinate information displays with moving people and the environment, software must know the locations and three dimensional alignments of the display hardware. In this paper we describe a technique for creating such an enhanced topological map of networked public displays using a mobile phone. The result supports a richer user experience, without the cost of maintaining a high resolution reconstruction of a smart environment.

From (MoCo Loco: Spoticam by Antrepo) comes this clever lamp that is in the shape of a security camera.

Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman

This is creeptastic - don