Jorge Cardoso's Blog - CITAR

O Projecto DiABlu no CITAR

nospam@example.com (Jorge Cardoso) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:31:51 -0500

I gave a talk at the CITAR Seminars abou the DiABlu Project. Here are the slides. Slides for other talks are in CITAR Seminars page.

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Bibliographic Management

nospam@example.com (Jorge Cardoso) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:52:00 -0500

I use JabRef as my preferred bibliographic management system. It's aimed at BibTeX and it uses it natively (the database(s) is just a regular BibTeX file). JabRef is (being) developed in Java so you can use it in Windows, Linux, Mac OS...

It supports (imports) a lot of bibliographic formats, such as BibTex, RIS, Endnote, just to name a few.

It can fetch citations directly from Citeseer and IEEExplore (and other services, but these are the ones I use most).

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Stories In Place - Future Places

nospam@example.com (Jorge Cardoso) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:59:46 -0400

“Stories in Place” is about creating a shared, collaborative, situated story. Starting with a small initial phrase, users are asked to contribute their own words in order to complete a story, which is presented in a public screen or projection surface.

Collaboration is simply a matter of sending a text message via bluetooth to a specific device -- StoriesInPlace. Each time a user gives a contribution, the story up to that moment is sent back to his mobile device, so that he automatically holds a copy of his contribution and of those before him.

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Public Sound Objects at Casa da MÃºsica: Exame InformÃ¡tica

nospam@example.com (Jorge Cardoso) — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:32 -0400

The Public Sound Objects project installed at the Casa da Música will appear on the next issue of Exame Informática.

In the installation at Casa da Música the following people participated:

Álvaro Barbosa - The project's author.

Jorge Cardoso - The guy (me) that implemented it all in Java.

Jorge Abade - The guy that designed those nice looking orange stands for the Mac computers.

Álvaro Barbosa explains how it works in this video: