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Help Build the Web of Knowledge |
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12:47 pm EDT, May 20, 2002 |
""Knowledge Web" is the pet project of James Burke, an Oxford-educated historian whose fascination with technology resulted in Connections, a television series that explored the strange links between technological breakthroughs and historical events." This guy's TV show is really good. I imagine the tool described here will be very interesting. Help Build the Web of Knowledge |
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O'Reilly Emerging Technologies 2002 [Audio] |
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2:31 pm EDT, May 19, 2002 |
TechNetCast is making available the audio tracks for the keynote speeches given at the recent O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. As I log this URL, only four are available, but the rest of them are promised within days. (Hopefully that will include Steven Johnson ...) The keynotes include: Rethinking The Modern Operating System, by Richard Rashid, Microsoft.
Fixing Network Security by Hacking the Business Climate, by Bruce Schneier.
Autonomic Computing, by Robert Morris, IBM.
The Shape of Things to Come, by Tim O'Reilly. O'Reilly Emerging Technologies 2002 [Audio] |
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1:21 am EDT, May 15, 2002 |
"On a tumultuous Tuesday that encapsulated its stormy history, CEO Konrad Hilbers announced his resignation. Shortly after, Napster's approximately 70 remaining employees were offered two unappealing options: Quit now and receive severance pay, or take one week of unpaid leave, hoping somebody will revive the once powerful file-trading company, sources close to the situation said." Napster is dead. Last Rites for Napster |
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12:01 am EDT, May 13, 2002 |
"Microsoft seems to be playing the role of the referee who decides whether any innovations succeed. Microsoft only seems comfortable at the application level where they have control, not at the infrastructure level - and this ultimately keeps many innovations from happening. Because of this they've just brought innovation in internet naming to a grinding halt - and the internet *really* needs innovation in naming." Keith Teare's Web Site |
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Salon.com Technology | Use the blog, Luke |
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1:11 pm EDT, May 10, 2002 |
"The true revolution promised by the rise of bloggerdom is not about journalism. It's about information management. " Salon.com Technology | Use the blog, Luke |
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11:49 am EDT, May 10, 2002 |
The Internet Storm Center... Tracks lateral port scans by service by geographic region. Interesting to note the amount of SSH scanning going on in Asia... Internet Storm Center |
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1:51 pm EDT, May 4, 2002 |
"The third annual CanSecWest conference is scheduled to be held on May 1-3 2002 in Vancouver B.C. Canada. This conference focuses on newly emerging information security research, with a balance of both topics on auditing and pen-testing as well as security and defensive strategies." This looks like a very good con... Shame I missed it... cansecwest 2002 |
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PingID.org - Open Digital Identity Project - Home |
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2:29 pm EDT, May 3, 2002 |
Ping Identity is an open, principles based project focused on building digital identity infrastructure capable of ensuring that the rights and privileges we enjoy with our real world identities are not lost, changed or abused with respect to our digital ones. PingID stands for personal choice, privacy, security and control while ensuring maximum interoperability, openness, accessibility and an adherence to open standards. The Ping Digital Identity Infrastructure project provides a complete open framework for developers, enterprises and service providers to deploy and embed digital identity services and functionality within their applications, devices or services. PingID provides everything required for end-users to establish, grow and exchange Digital Identity information in a secure environment, and for enterprises and service providers to provide trusted services to employees and end-users. PingID.org - Open Digital Identity Project - Home |
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ACM: Ubiquity - Where the Algorithm Meets the Electronics |
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10:08 pm EDT, Apr 30, 2002 |
Prabhakar Raghavan, CTO at Verity, Inc., on building a secure foundation for information retrieval. On the Web: a few tens of TBytes. In enterprises: many orders of magnitude more than that. The technical challenges inside companies are very different from those for the Web. The primary factor is what we call "fine-grained security." In summary, fine-grained security is the ability to interlace search with security at the document and individual levels. A huge technical challenge! Another challenge is the diverse types of documents. I'll describe some of the framework for the solution ... Security is every bit as important as searching. This aspect of secure search is the foundation from which we build up deeper functionality ... [What] I think really is the harbinger of the future, is to invoke ideas from social network theory. Prabhakar Raghavan gave the most recent talk in the Dertouzos Lecturer Series, which I attended. In this interview, he's talking about some of the same topics. Worth reading (and thinking about). At the interface between academia and industry, the first few bits and pieces of a solution are starting to come together. At least people are now thinking about the right problems ... Additionally, Raghavan discusses his experiences working at IBM's Almaden laboratory. As I read this section, I was thinking about the future impact of IBM's recent sale of part (most?) of this lab to Hitachi. (See my recent log entry for more details.) ACM: Ubiquity - Where the Algorithm Meets the Electronics |
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How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00. |
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1:08 am EDT, Apr 25, 2002 |
"It is possible to build a computer-driven, life-size, android robot head (Figure 1) for cost of materials of about $600.00. The android head will have two color video-camera eyes with the video going both into a window on the PC and into an image processing Java application. The robot will have six servo motors controlling: (1) base of the head spins, (2,3) each eye moves left/right, (4) both eyes move up/down, (5,6) each eye-lid opens/closes. All servo motors are controlled via a Java application. The user supplies the computer (PC). The details of how to construct such a head follows, based on the authors creation of Robot Maxamilian, R. Max for short. " On the surface this sounds like a stupid idea, but crazy ideas sometimes bear useful fruit. Are Java libraries available for turning "sterescopic" video into a 3D object representation?? I wonder if a neural net's recognition of objects like "chairs" improves if you provide stereoscopic input... How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00. |
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