A PDF of "The Problems of Information Privacy Law," which appears as Chapter 4 of "The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age", by Daniel J. Solove.

The Problems of Information Privacy Law

The Data Sharing Summit is back, and bigger. Our purpose is to provide gathering spaces in which all parties can work together on the challenge of data sharing. We create the agenda the day it happens.

Data Sharing Summit

Fifty years ago, the CIA embarked on a project to intercept Soviet and East German messages transmitted via underground cable. Intelligence was collected to determine the best place to hit the target, and then concrete planning for a new collection site was begun.

Engineering the Berlin Tunnel

Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media's self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country's real problems

Why Americans Hate the Media

Fred and Sally are visiting their friend Joe’s house when the topic of Sally’s recent vacation comes up. Instead of just showing them pictures on her mobile device, Sally displays a collection of her favorite pictures on Joe’s wall-mounted flat-screen TV, using her mobile to advance the slides. Meanwhile, Fred takes a moment to browse through Joe’s music collection on his MID until he finds an appropriate album, which he then triggers to play on Joe’s stereo system.

Dynamic Composable Computing (DCC)

A slide show.

Five Years of War in Iraq - Council on Foreign Relations

Imagine a day when a single device small enough to fit in your pocket has the power of a laptop and can deliver a rich computing, telephony, media, gaming, and Internet experience. Imagine a day when this device knows your tendencies and preferences and can adapt and optimize its interfaces to match what you are doing at any point any time. Imagine a day when this device is not constrained as a standalone unit, but can dynamically become a hybrid combination of other computing and multimedia devices in close proximity. In the labs at Intel, we have been looking at what makes sense for mobility in the future – a vision we refer to as Carry Small, Live Large.

Carry Small, Live Large

It's all about the incentives.

It is important that one critical point, explained in the middle of this document, be highlighted upfront: The focal point of the current breakdown of the HTS program is a conflict of interests created by program management’s competing incentive structures–they cannot fulfill their oversight responsibilities over BAE’s numerous failures to fulfill their contractual responsibilities without arming critics seeking the cancellation of the entire program.

Human Terrain Systems

Ben Shneiderman:

During 1990, in response to the common problem of a filled hard disk, I became obsessed with the idea of producing a compact visualization of directory tree structures.

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

In 1997, on his retirement from Bell Labs, Doug McIlroy gave a fascinating talk about the “History of Computing at Bell Labs.” That page contains audio for the talk in Real Audio format (it was 1997). Almost ten years ago I transcribed the audio but never did anything with it. The transcript is below.

Computing History at Bell Labs