Lots of interesting papers are available here. This conference was held in Ireland in June 2001. Here are a few of the paper titles:
Using Dimensionality Reduction to Improve Similarity Judgements for Recommendation
Paths and Contextually Specific Recommendations
Combining Dynamic Agents and Collaborative Filtering ... for Better Recommendation Quality
Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval
Personalization through Specification Refinement and Composition
Relevance Feedback and Personalization: A Language Modeling Perspective
Comparing Recommendations Made by Online Systems and Friends
Flycasting: On the Fly Broadcasting
Personalization and Recommender Systems in the Larger Context: New Directions and Research Questions

Proceedings of the Second DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries

More information about SCTP...

Welcome to The SCTP - Stream Control Transmission Protocol home page

This is fucking awesome. It totally solves the multi-homing problem with no need to rework IP addressing, and extensions to allow for dynamic changes to associations will fix the mobile IP roaming problem as well. You will not use TCP anymore in 5 years.

Stream Control Transmission Protocol

The Internet moves to pay services.

Year in review: Nothing comes cheap - Tech News - CNET.com

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Linux.com :: Enhance :: Articles - Install and Test Qmail with POP, IMAP and WebMail

MemeStreamers in the SF Bay Area may be interested in this upcoming conference. Deadline for submission of papers is 1 Jan 2002. The Program Committee includes Jamie Zawinski, Bram Cohen, Iag Grigg, and others.

"CodeCon 2002, scheduled for February 15, 16, and 17 in San Francisco, California, is the premier event in 2002 for the P2P, cypherpunk, and network/security application developer community. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications that support individual liberties."

CodeCon 2002

Rock. HP is playing around with augmented reality technology that allows you to tie audio messages to a physical location. Ultimately I'd like to see this sort of system tied into display technology such that you can create virtual objects that exist in real places.

New Scientist | Mobile Phones | Write here, write now

Antivirus software vendors said Monday they don't want to create a loophole in their security products to let the FBI or other government agencies use a virus to eavesdrop on the computer communications of suspected criminals.

News: Antivirus firms: FBI loophole is out of line

"Do most of your customers disclose to their employees that they're being monitored, and what are the legal issues surrounding that?
Everybody is moving to full disclosure. We encourage it.
Every company has a right to monitor an employee while they're at work, whether it be phone or e-mail.
Do your clients usually monitor everyone at the company?
We've had executives that say, "I don't want myself to be monitored." CEOs are never going to be monitored. "

Big Brother's watching - Tech News - CNET.com

"One aspect of our culture that is no longer open to question is that the most significant developments in the sciences today (i.e. those that affect the lives of everybody on the planet) are about, informed by, or implemented through advances in software and computation."

Table of contents for this issue:

Marc D. Hauser: How Does The Brain Generate Computation?
Jaron Lanier: The Central Metaphor Of Everything?
Alan Guth: A Golden Age Of Cosmology
David Gelernter: Streams
Jordan Pollack: Software, Property & Human Civilization

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