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The Social Life of Legal Information |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
8:10 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
Some ["digital champions"] have difficulty realizing that the battle for which they have fought has essentially been won. Education is being radically and irreversibly transformed with the help of digital technologies. We cannot, nor should we want to go back. The only significant question is how do we go forward. ... We need less cheerleading and more constructive critique. Change has been pushed too heavily from the narrow perspective of information and its delivery. This perspective almost inevitably leaves out questions of learning, meaning, interpretation, communication, and community that are central to understanding both change and inertia. The Internet is asking you a Question, and it is not: TCP or UDP? An updated version of this article, by Paul Duguid, co-author of _The Social Life of Information_, will appear in the September issue of First Monday. The Social Life of Legal Information |
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SEC Targets 'Swap' Deals by Telecom Firms |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
7:01 am EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
The SEC has ruled invalid an accounting rationale used by some telecommunications companies to justify deals in which they appeared to trade access to one another's wires. The new ruling means any companies that relied on the rationale to boost their revenue may be forced to restate their financial results. Look for restatements to arrive soon, but expect the market to ignore them. (There's no sense in letting a few unwanted facts spoil the rally! Right?) SEC Targets 'Swap' Deals by Telecom Firms |
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AOL Is Reportedly Set to Pay AT&T for TWE Stake |
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| Topic: Tech Industry |
6:54 am EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
AOLTW is poised to buy out AT&T's stake in Time Warner Entertainment for $9 billion in cash, AOL stock and shares in a new publicly traded cable business. Smartest thing AOL has done in months ... Now: what to do about all of those dialup users? AOL Is Reportedly Set to Pay AT&T for TWE Stake |
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Sale by Qwest for $7 Billion Is Called Near |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
6:51 am EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
Qwest agreed last night to sell its yellow pages directories business to a group of financiers for $7 billion in a move that would help it avert a bankruptcy filing. The big Q postpones the inevitable, once again. Sale by Qwest for $7 Billion Is Called Near |
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Opposition to Nanotechnology |
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| Topic: Nano Tech |
6:47 am EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
The great Gray Goo debate is beginning to matter. Nanotechnology is toddling into commercialization ... companies are racing to scale up production of carbon nanotubes ... The crosscurrents of opinion that will shape nanotechnology's commercialization are bound to become stronger -- and more unpredictable -- as a broader range of participants join the Gray Goo debate. This article is about a Canadian organization called the ETC Group. (ETC stands for Eco-Equity Erosion, Technology Transformation and Corporate Control.) Under a different name in the 1990s, this group fought Monsanto on agro-bio-tech issues. They are advocates of the so-called "precautionary principle." Opposition to Nanotechnology |
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VoiceStream Proposes Cingular Merger - WSJ |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
6:28 am EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
Wireless phone provider VoiceStream has proposed a merger with rival Cingular Wireless, in a bid to compete with market leader Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The proposal comes amid signs of government support for consolidation in the $67 billion cellular-phone industry. VoiceStream Proposes Cingular Merger - WSJ |
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| Topic: Software Development |
5:24 am EDT, Aug 20, 2002 |
How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing This is the on-line version of the third printing by the MIT Press. How to Design Programs |
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SAP DB - The FREE Enterprise Open Source Database |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
3:24 pm EDT, Aug 18, 2002 |
SAP DB is a state-of-the art, SQL-based, industrial-strength database management system. SAP DB is platform-independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of projects. SAP DB is highly scalable, easy to use and maintain, and provides full transaction support. Companies can deploy SAP DB together with SAP applications for a complete out-of-the-box business solution. SAP DB also goes beyond relational processing by offering object orientation as well as support for managing unstructured data. This comprehensive set of features and their availability as Open Source will benefit the entire database development community. The database engine behind SAP is now freely available as an open source product. It runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, and more. It supports ODBC 3.5.1 and JDBC 2.0 with a Type 4 high-performance driver. SAP DB - The FREE Enterprise Open Source Database |
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Magnetoencephalography: theory, instrumentation, and applications to noninvasive studies of the working human brain |
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| Topic: Science |
5:01 pm EDT, Aug 17, 2002 |
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a noninvasive technique for investigating neuronal activity in the living human brain. The time resolution of the method is better than 1 ms and the spatial discrimination is, under favorable circumstances, 2-3 mm for sources in the cerebral cortex. Many interesting properties of the working human brain can be studied, including spontaneous activity and signal processing following external stimuli. A subscription to _Reviews of Modern Physics_ is required for access to the full text, but this study is comprehensive -- 93 pages in length. Magnetoencephalography: theory, instrumentation, and applications to noninvasive studies of the working human brain |
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Neural Modeling and Functional Brain Imaging [PDF] |
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| Topic: Science |
4:51 pm EDT, Aug 17, 2002 |
This article gives an overview of the different functional brain imaging methods, the kinds of questions these methods try to address and some of the questions associated with functional neuroimaging data for which neural modeling must be employed to provide reasonable answers. Neural Modeling and Functional Brain Imaging [PDF] |
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