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In anticipation of Celia Pearce's lecture tomorrow and in celebration of our wednesday pot luck, I made this dessert and the first lucky folks who show up with food they brought will get to taste my Super Four Berry Almond Hazelnut Torte. Since we are an Interactive department, I encourage you to interact with each other's foodstuffs for starters... Be a good sport and bring something cool to the table!
I am in the market for a phone or PDA under $400 (or less) that can surf and do email well with a windows OS so it can sync with my MS apps. So far, I have been very happy with my Acer TravelMate C111TCi and my Sierra Wireless 750 with T-Mobile when traveling. I looked and looked and looked, and I ended up on a the Acer site again (surprise). Has anyone tried an Acer N50 PDA with GPRS PC Card?
I think I am in love with it. It isn't available in the US but don't let that stop me. I am primarily interested in a road-warrior PDA with phone cababilities with power features rather than frills.
Any clues? Something will have to be very catchy to make me part with my current Tablet, even for a few hours per day... :)
This month's Communications of the ACM has a nice collection of articles about RFID. And just last night, I saw a commercial that bragged the RFID-tagged boxes knew that the truck they were in was lost which was a bit funny.
For those of you who don't already subscribe to ACM, especially new students, I highly encourage you to follow the trends publications of ACM and IEEE as a good way to keep up with scholarly research and events. Student rates are pretty low and the subscriptions are partially tax deductible. I am sure the library allows online access from oncampus surfing and I would be glad to loan out any issues you maybe interested in. There are several other publications to look into but this is a good start.
Computers in Entertainment seems to be a good must read for our division and for all of you 3rd students who have to look into a potential outlet for publishing, this may be suitable. I know that we all go gaga over Siggraph and E3 for the show value but keep in mind there is lots of other stuff out there.