Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research, is to receive an honorary doctorate from Queen's University at the June Convocations.

Bill Buxton, a Queen's University alumnus, is a relentless advocate for innovation, design, and - especially - the appropriate consideration of human values, capacity, and culture in the conception, implementation, and use of new products and technologies. This is reflected in his research, teaching, talks, and writing - including his column on design and innovation for BusinessWeek.com, and his 2007 book, Sketching User Experiences. www.billbuxton.com

HML's Dustin Freeman demoing the world's first Spherical Computer.

And that's a lot of videos that produced for the 08-09 season of Discovery Channel's popular show Daily Planet. Catch the show here. Thank you for your vote!

Discovery Channel has chosen the Daily Planet segment about the work on Organic User Interfaces at Queen's Human Media Lab into the top 15 best for this year. We'd really appreciate your help voting us into this year's best of Daily Planet episode. Please vote by selecting "Flexible Computers" in the following webpage, and hitting the submit button, and please tell your friends and facebook buddies to do the same! Voting ends on Monday the 25th.

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The Daily Planet episode on OUI can be found at:

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/clip162244#clip162244

The work of an unnamed Korean company, this MID concept uses an “Asian Scroll” theme with a pull-out “foldable glass monitor” touchscreen [Slashgear].

Short doc on Professor Steve Mann's guest lecture in COCA201 April 2009.