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Intelligent Networks • Smart Objects • Design for Humans Tuesday, April 05, 2005    Good to see the big boys starting to figure this out... Even if it is just Cisco-sponsored "research" - it is on-target and worth a read. Good stuff. Cisco/IDC Whitepaper: Planning for Proliferation: The Impact of RFID on the Network (PDF) True, this is a huge market opportunity for Cisco to tap into, but the real scope and scale of "Ambient Informatics" is much broader, and will require new systems design thinking - beyond simply deploying vast amounts of additional network infrastructure hardware. Theres a more fundamental design issue here... 9:30:14 PM     Microsoft Scientists Use Visualization to Bring Information to Life Researchers in the field of human-computer interaction show how innovative information visualization tools can transform the way business users, consumers and software developers process and organize today's ever-increasing amounts of data. 9:22:16 PM     The 23rd annual CHI 2005 Conference is running through Thursday, April 7, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. 9:18:20 PM

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