Multitouch Interaction (ETech 2006)
Jeff Han, from NYU's Computer Science department is giving a demo of something called Multitouch, a new computer interface. he has a rear projection graphing table with a multitouch sensor, something not normal on a touch screen. You can do chording, for example. He shows a fluid simulation (lava lamp) that responds to multiple touch. You can easily see how you can do things to the interface that you can't do with a single point of touch (like a mouse). He demos a photographers light box application. Picking up pictures, rotating them, etc. is exactly the same as doing
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Understanding UDDI
UDDI interactions with various SOA players(click to enlarge) As part of the SOA governance feature and Infravio X-Registry review that are going to be in InfoWorld in a few weeks, I'm trying to come up with a short (less than 200 words) sidebar and graphic on understanding UDDI. My first draft of a graphic is shown on the right. Here's text I'm thinking of including with it. Naturally, it has been simplified to meet space requirements. The question is "does this capture the spirit of UDDI and communicate useful information or does it confuse because of details left out?" Help
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