So as many of you know, I’ve been trying to get my Master’s thesis done soon so I can graduate this May. Today I reached a bit of a milestone: the first draft. It’s not all I want it to be: it’s still missing a few figures, mostly screenshots to explain what’s going on. That’s …
So I’m starting my study of tagging, and searching with keywords. Image search has lots of really interesting nuanced problems, but the ones that interest me involve the language of the image “tag”. If you’re interested in participating, take a look at my little recruitment page: http://grabka.org/internet/flickrsearchtagging/ It’s a multi-step process that starts with you …
Introducing Flickr Search Tagging! It’s a little utility that enables a couple of things: Let’s you to propose tags for images that don’t belong to you on Flickr. Contributing tags if you want to help describe the image is often not possible, unless: you’re the owner, you’re a contact of the owner, or the person …
I’m trying to wrap my head around all of the information I’m reading about image search. Search, retrieval, information, data, all of these terms are loaded, and used differently depending on whether I’m reading an HCI paper, a text analysis paper, or a blog post about search engine optimisation (SEO). In hopes of simplifying things, …
Finding relevant and useful research papers is different now than even a few years ago. Search tools are improving, online collections are growing, and your local university library probably has a proxy that allows you to vist any paper they have access to online. I have found the following tools useful in finding papers within …
To be perfectly honest, I was admittied into my Masters program with zero funding. In retrospect, starting a two year+ project with no guaranteed income wasn’t the greatest idea, for a variety of reasons. First, every semester I hope/pray to get a Graduate Teaching Assistant job, which luckily gets easier and easier as I accumulate …
This paper addresses issues of Denial of Service (DoS) for Web Services. Architecture of Web Services is described in context of being doubly susceptible to DoS, and contrasted against other models of delivering software. The impact on the client-publisher relationship is discussed, given the impact of loss of functionality during DoS. Solutions involving performance testing and connection security are proposed.
Paper presented as part of graduate course CIS*6650, Winter of 2007, to Dr. Qusay Mahmoud at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
Note: This presentation and bibliography was delivered as part of a graduate course in Object Oriented Design (Fall 2006) to Dr. Bill Gardner, at the University of Guelph. Ajax was pretty cutting edge in 2006. :) AJAX is a new term, but it referes to a collection of technologies that have been complete since around …