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Getting deeper in the knowledge domain of locations and building an onology of this domain I ended in the question how deep I want to describe locations. Is it reasonable to map the friendliness of the waiters, how many they are in the location or a better example what beer is provided in a bar? […]
moreGetting into the secrets of taxonomies, ontologies, etc. I found a classification of animals from a specific chinese encyclopedia:
dem Kaiser gehörige,
einbalsamierte,
gezähmte,
Milchschweine,
Sirenen,
Fabeltiere,
streunende Hunde,
in diese Einteilung aufgenommene,
die sich wie toll gebärden,
unzählbare,
mit feinstem Kamelhaarpinsel gezeichnete,
und so weiter,
die den Wasserkrug zerbrochen haben,
die von weitem wie Fliegen aussehen.
You can find this example in the wikipedia article about Taxonomie.
moreI’m joining the SEALs (software evolution and architecture lab) in July and I’m going to work on a very interesting project I was asked for by the company Astina AG. This project is supported by the CTI (commision of technology and innovation) cause of its high potential use in different areas like tourism. The CTI […]
moreSome days ago the day became night cause the densitity of the cloudes. It was unbelievable. As it starts to rain the prominent class room KOH-B-10 at the University of Zurich has shown that it leeks. Nice test environment would say computer scientists . The video blow shows how much! And the most strange […]
moreA week ago, the 16th of May, I finished my master thesis about an implementation of a graph-based knowledgebrowser for a CMS. Now, I spend time in relaxing and organizing my next steps to the future. The current IT market is asking for graduates and I remark it evertime taking a look to my email […]
more Wow, great! My mentor Benjamin promoted my temporaly successfull participation in the Imagine Cup 2007 at the Institute of Informatics. He published a news article about my current ranking (3rd rank) and proceeding to the semi finals:
IfI Student Enters Semi Finals in International User Interface Competition
IfI diploma student Amancio Bouza ranked 3rd in the user […]
Weehaaahh, I’m proceeding to the next round in the Imagine Cup 2007 as 3 ranked team.
more The competition of the ImagineCup 2007 is very hard. Lots of people invested lots of time and money to develop and design new interfaces. I saw lots of innovative ideas. Some are extremly innovative other are improvments of existings ones. The main goal for the interfaces in the ImagineCup 2007 is to improve education.
I’ll show […]
The ImagineCup is a global competition about informatics between students all over the world. The provider of the ImageineCup is Microsoft. This competition is divided into small competitions addressing different aspects of informatics like algorithm, web development, embedded systems, interface design, etc.
In my case I applied for “Interface Design” and I’ll propose my master thesis […]
I implemented two different ways of placing graph nodes or tree nodes using a radial layout. First I’ll the radial layout and afterwards I describe the idea of both distributions and finishing with the conclusion based on a visualization example.
Radial Layout:
The idea of radial layout is quite simple. As have a tree or a graph […]