best practices for writing web forms

Today Caroline Harrett was giving a talk about web from at EBI campus.
 
Caroline Jarrett: Forms and their Users

Caroline Jarrett: Forms and their Users « EBI Interfaces

Brian Kernighan talking about smart phones

What makes smart phones smart?
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/20/23449/
By Brian Kernighan GS '69

Arthur Clarke’s famous Third Law says, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Shazam is not magic: The various technological pieces are straightforward, though the specific algorithm that can so efficiently identify one tune out of zillions surely qualifies as advanced technology. Some deprecate the whole thing with comments like “It’s not really very good at classical music.” True enough, but viewed more generously, it’s nothing short of astonishing.

I kid my students about endowing a chair when they become rich and famous, but the real reward is watching enthusiastic and creative people convert dumb devices into smart ones. That really is indistinguishable from magic.

How someone can patent how to manage a biological database??

http://www.freshpatents.com/Managing-biological-databases-dt20070201ptan20070027630.php?type=description


or:
Abstract:

Disclosed are a method for determining whether an individual has an enhanced, diminished, or average probability of exhibiting one or more phenotypic attributes and related methods of selecting a set of genetic markers; for providing relevant genetic information to an individual; of evaluating the probability that progeny of two individuals of the opposite sex will exhibit one or more phenotypic attributes; and for determining the genomic ethnicity of an individual.

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=WO2004092333&wo=2004092333&DISPLAY=STATUS