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Category Archives: Computers and IT
Weltmaschine.de
Just on time for the LHC start-up the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the German institutes working on the LHC and it’s experiments launched a new website called Weltmaschine.de (only German though).
It is another piece of an outreach campaign that started with the very successful LHC-Train that was cruising the S-Train ring in Berlin for the Long Night of Science in June.
The Grand Finale is an exhibition in the so far unused subway station Bundestag in the period from October 15th to November 16th.
Face Recognition in Google
Just found out about a cool feature in Google’s image search engine.
In case you are looking for portrait of a certain person you can add ‘&imgtype=face‘ to the URL of your search result and off you go … only faces in your result!
Example with today’s featured article on wikipedia about Monaco:
GAME OVER Project
Just got pointed out a great page paying tribute to the old classics in computer/machine games.
Just enjoy …
Official webpage of Guillaume Reymond and his GAME OVER Project.
50 Questions
For all German speaking readers (sorry about the others) here’s a collection of 50 questions everyone should be able to answer (according to some scientists).
http://www.heise.de/tr/wissenstest/go.shtml
I have to admint that I didn’t know all the answers …