Interface
noun
The point where two systems or subjects meet and interact with each other.
The interface between accountancy and the law can be a grey area.
Often appears as...
- user interface
- interface design
noun
A device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer.
A user-friendly interface helps people to use the software more effectively.
Often appears as...
- user interface
- graphical interface
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To connect with a computer or piece of software in a direct and active way.
The new system interfaces well with existing equipment.
Often appears as...
- interface with equipment
- interface with software
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To communicate and interact effectively.
As a manager, you will need to interface with a variety of different departments.
Often appears as...
- interface with departments
- interface with clients
Usage tips
Formal
General,Academic
noun
The point where two systems or subjects meet and interact with each other.
The interface between accountancy and the law can be a grey area.
Often appears as...
- user interface
- interface design
noun
A device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer.
A user-friendly interface helps people to use the software more effectively.
Often appears as...
- user interface
- graphical interface
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To connect with a computer or piece of software in a direct and active way.
The new system interfaces well with existing equipment.
Often appears as...
- interface with equipment
- interface with software
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To communicate and interact effectively.
As a manager, you will need to interface with a variety of different departments.
Often appears as...
- interface with departments
- interface with clients
Usage tips
Formal
General,Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Metaphorical Use
Interface can describe interactions beyond physical or digital, often in business or academia.
The conference facilitated an interface between scholars and practitioners.
Pro Tip 2/2Grey Area
It implies complexity when used for overlapping fields or subjects, suggesting a need for expertise.
Navigating the interface of ethics and artificial intelligence is challenging.
Pro Tip 1/2Metaphorical Use
Interface can describe interactions beyond physical or digital, often in business or academia.
The conference facilitated an interface between scholars and practitioners.
Pro Tip 2/2Grey Area
It implies complexity when used for overlapping fields or subjects, suggesting a need for expertise.
Navigating the interface of ethics and artificial intelligence is challenging.
Pro Tip 1/2Metaphorical Use
Interface can describe interactions beyond physical or digital, often in business or academia.
The conference facilitated an interface between scholars and practitioners.
Pro Tip 2/2Grey Area
It implies complexity when used for overlapping fields or subjects, suggesting a need for expertise.
Navigating the interface of ethics and artificial intelligence is challenging.
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these make the shaving experience nicer and easier shaving products lubricate the interface between skin and the sharp blade and some people say they help keep beard hairs wet during the shave so why use one of these over another honestly it's just personal preference the cream and the gels tend to be a bit thicker so if you have a thick beard that might be
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Unveiling the genius of...
low-cost, and probably most importantly, very scalable. So, the technology, you know, isn't the most exciting thing here right now, other than probably its newfound accessibility. What's really interesting here is what you can do with it and the kind of interfaces you can build on top of it.
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Pointing to the future...
in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser. The beam splitters and lenses are represented by physical objects, and the system projects down the laser beam path. So you've got an interface that has no interface. You operate the world as you operate the real world,
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Owning your digital DNA...
billion devices and it's kind of different because they are not tools anymore they are an interface between life and artificial life and we are not users we are sensors for a huge system that we do not own or control the problem is is our digital DNA's today they belong to
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
And I remember my students were the ones who told me about it, and we would -- we were just amazed. We started playing with this, and that afternoon, we realized that we could use this new, universal interface to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab.
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Elon Musk: The future...
Solar energy, we need to get there, so we need to make these beautiful roofs. We haven't even spoken about your newest thing, which we don't have time to do, but you want to save humanity from bad AI, and so you're going to create this really cool brain-machine interface
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Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...
When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right? And then, it's all smoothly animated, instead of these jarring changes you see in today's interfaces.
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How transistors work -...
due to certain phenomena at the P-N interface, a special region called a P-N junction forms between the emitter and base. It only conducts electricity when a voltage exceeding a certain threshold is applied. Otherwise, it remains switched off.
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A headset that reads...
to any computing platform, application or device. So I'd like to show you a few examples, because there are many possible applications for this new interface. In games and virtual worlds, for example, your facial expressions
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Art that reveals how...
Even though technology is creating this isolation, we could use it to make the world connected again by breaking the existing model and going beyond it. By exploring how we interface with these technologies,
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Shaving Foam PIPE...
these make the shaving experience nicer and easier shaving products lubricate the interface between skin and the sharp blade and some people say they help keep beard hairs wet during the shave so why use one of these over another honestly it's just personal preference the cream and the gels tend to be a bit thicker so if you have a thick beard that might be
Video examples
Unveiling the genius of...
low-cost, and probably most importantly, very scalable. So, the technology, you know, isn't the most exciting thing here right now, other than probably its newfound accessibility. What's really interesting here is what you can do with it and the kind of interfaces you can build on top of it.
Video examples
Pointing to the future...
in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser. The beam splitters and lenses are represented by physical objects, and the system projects down the laser beam path. So you've got an interface that has no interface. You operate the world as you operate the real world,
Video examples
Owning your digital DNA...
billion devices and it's kind of different because they are not tools anymore they are an interface between life and artificial life and we are not users we are sensors for a huge system that we do not own or control the problem is is our digital DNA's today they belong to
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
And I remember my students were the ones who told me about it, and we would -- we were just amazed. We started playing with this, and that afternoon, we realized that we could use this new, universal interface to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab.
Video examples
Elon Musk: The future...
Solar energy, we need to get there, so we need to make these beautiful roofs. We haven't even spoken about your newest thing, which we don't have time to do, but you want to save humanity from bad AI, and so you're going to create this really cool brain-machine interface
Video examples
Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...
When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right? And then, it's all smoothly animated, instead of these jarring changes you see in today's interfaces.
Video examples
How transistors work -...
due to certain phenomena at the P-N interface, a special region called a P-N junction forms between the emitter and base. It only conducts electricity when a voltage exceeding a certain threshold is applied. Otherwise, it remains switched off.
Video examples
A headset that reads...
to any computing platform, application or device. So I'd like to show you a few examples, because there are many possible applications for this new interface. In games and virtual worlds, for example, your facial expressions
Video examples
Art that reveals how...
Even though technology is creating this isolation, we could use it to make the world connected again by breaking the existing model and going beyond it. By exploring how we interface with these technologies,
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Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Emirati Statesman
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
American Writer
Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
American Educator
There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.
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David Grinspoon
American Scientist
Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.
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Tim Cook
American Businessman
My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.
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Andy Hertzfeld
American Inventor
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
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Linus Torvalds
Finnish Businessman
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
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Daniel J. Bernstein
American Mathematician
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
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Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Emirati Statesman
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
American Writer
Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.
Quote examples
Jon Kabat-Zinn
American Educator
There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.
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David Grinspoon
American Scientist
Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.
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Tim Cook
American Businessman
My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.
Quote examples
Andy Hertzfeld
American Inventor
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
Quote examples
Linus Torvalds
Finnish Businessman
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Quote examples
Daniel J. Bernstein
American Mathematician
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
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