For the second consecutive year, it appears the IU School of Informatics will send five team to Florence, Italy to compete in the next round of the CHI Student Design Competition. Now in the fifth year of the event, IU has won the competition twice, placed in the top four six times, and sent a total of 19 teams to this major conference for human-computer interaction.
Questioning what you think you know
Last Friday, Eugene Spafford became the first of four speakers in a new Distinguished Colloquia series offered by the School of Informatics. Spaffords talk, “The Value in Questioning What You Think You Know,” was a reflective look at current hardware and software practices, many of which are based on the computing landscape in the 1950s.
BOOM (shuffle)
My CHI buddy, Matt Weldon, has been ultra-secretive about his fall project, offering only cryptic Facebook and Twitter status messages about his work and job status. Monday, Matt tweeted a link to BoomShuffle, a web-based music streaming service that is likely the reason for the hush-hushedness.
BOOM (shuffle)
My first attempt to blog about my friend Matt’s work—BoomShuffle—resulted in a request to wait a few more days. But even if I couldn’t share my delight with the world, I have benefited from five days of use of the music sharing service with an attitude. A modified version of the original post can be found here.