“The Blonde Woman’s Kitchen”

Programming in the Kitchen

In this paper we discuss issues for the integration of computing power in mundane artefacts. We do so with reference to a recent project with a manufacturer of ovens for larger kitchens and catering services. We introduce three levels of obstacles when integrating computers into mundane tools and point out how organisational issues are a source of interface problems. We conclude that the design...

Hazards from the kitchen tap.

The handy-dandy kitchen device.

In gray tree frogs, the duration of males' mating calls is correlated with enhanced genetic fitness among offspring (A. M. Welch et al., Reports, 19 June, p. 1928). Perhaps the same genes that enable some frogs to sustain longer calls also confer a survival advantage to their young (E. Pennisi, Research News, 19 June, p. 1837). If so, this may be an example of a more general, but underappreciat...

The speech recognition virtual kitchen

This paper describes the “Speech Recognition Virtual Kitchen” environment which has the goals to promote community sharing of research techniques, foster innovative experimentation, and provide solid reference systems as a tool for education, research, and evaluation with a focus on, but not restricted to, speech and language research. The core of the research infrastructure is the use of Virtu...

Everything but the kitchen sink

&ELECTRONICSYSTEM-LEVEL (ESL)design is one of the newer three-letter acronyms (TLAs) in the design and EDA fields. Like its back-end cousin, design for manufacturability (DFM), ESL’s role in the design process is, and will likely remain, controversial. The definition of ESL is not widely agreed upon: What constitutes ESL is open for much debate, and many tool vendors seem to argue that ESL tool...