Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Contrived acronym in computer science and web development: Captcha

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The term “ captcha ” was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University to d...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Case sensitive URL distinction? Don't rely on it!

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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) should not be case sensitive. At least, the domain-name part of the URL string is not interpreted with resp...
Friday, January 20, 2012

HTML5 microdata markup validation

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HTML5 introduces the microdata concept to web page design: HTML elements can semantically be annotated by using item attributes such as item...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Gale crater on Mars named after Australian banker and astronomer Walter Frederick Gale

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The Gale crater on Mars was named in 1991 after Australian banker and astronomer Walter Frederick Gale (1865-1945) [1-3]. This 150-kilomet...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Martian locality inside the Gusev Crater: Columbia Hills named to honor the crew of the space shuttle Columbia

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The Columbia hills inside Crater Gusev on Mars are named to honor the crew of the space shuttle Columbia , which disintegrated over Texas ...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Eberswalde Crater on Mars named after the City of Eberswalde in the German State of Brandenburg

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The Eberswalde Crater on Mars is named after the German town with the same name (in accordance with the rules for planetary nomenclature of...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Valles Marineris, a Martian rift zone named to honor the scientific team of the Mariner 9 program

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The Valles Marineris got their name in 1973 to honor the scientific team of the Mariner 9 program [1]. The term “Valles Marineris” is the ...
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