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Current Topic: Technology

President Bush's Technology Agenda
Topic: Technology 1:13 am EDT, May  4, 2004

America's economy leads the world because our system of private enterprise rewards innovation. Entrepreneurs, scientists, and skilled workers create and apply the technologies that are changing our world. President Bush believes that government must work to help create a new generation of American innovation and an atmosphere where innovation thrives.

On April 26, 2004, President Bush announced a series of specific measures to inspire a new generation of American innovation - policies to encourage clean and reliable energy, assure better delivery of health care, and expand access to high-speed Internet in every part of America. By giving our workers the best technology and the best training, we will make sure that the American economy remains the most flexible, advanced, and productive in the world.

President Bush's Technology Agenda


Brainstorming, Influence, and Icebergs
Topic: Technology 3:26 pm EDT, Apr 18, 2004

A single column from Bob Colwell can make a subscription to Computer worthwhile.

Two heads are better than one as long as both are actively trying to accomplish the same goal. But those two heads also can achieve less together than either could alone. It depends on many things.

Cognitive humility is one of the general traits I like best about engineers: We know we don't have all the answers, and yet we recognize that our designs must move forward even when our imperfect knowledge can have serious or even life-threatening consequences.

Brainstorming, Influence, and Icebergs


AT&T Wireless Launches Music Service
Topic: Technology 2:08 am EDT, Apr 16, 2004

Thrynn wrote:
] Interesting. But how extensive could the database be?
] And this really worth $.99?

The linked article reports a database of "1 million popular songs." That's a significant database; as a point of reference, the Rhapsody database presently contains ~ 634,000 tracks. It's quite likely that the database of this particular service, as it now stands, includes tracks that are not licensed for electronic purchase. As an example, it can probably identify "Help!"

I agree that $0.99 is too much just for an identification service.

Here's my proposal for the business model of the service.

* You capture the audio clip and submit it to the service.

* The service performs the lookup and responds with an identification of the track.

* The service offers to sell you the track for $0.99. If you choose to purchase the track, you can listen to it on your phone immediately and at any time. You can also download it at a later time from an affiliated web site and transfer it to your desktop, laptop, iPod, or other portable player.

* If you decline to purchase the track after it has been identified, you are charged $0.10 for the lookup; such results are logged by the service and made available for later reference on the web site. Previously identified tracks can be purchased from the web site at any time for an additional $0.89.

As a partnership between AT&T and Apple, this could be successful.

AT&T Wireless Launches Music Service


Hobbyists return to tinkering with hardware
Topic: Technology 1:29 am EST, Mar 24, 2004

Most look at a toaster and see a kitchen appliance. Scott Fullam looks at a toaster and sees an engineering challenge.

The hardware hacking renaissance is coming into full bloom with two new books: "Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks," by Fullam, and "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty," edited by Joe Grand.

"The hope is to inspire people, through role models, to pick up a screwdriver and a soldering iron and to start hacking," writes Andrew Huang in the introduction to his "Hacking the Xbox." "Instilling this sort of exploratory spirit in the younger generations will be important in the long run for preserving the pool of talented engineers that drove the technology revolution."

This is a Knight Ridder wire story from earlier this month.

When was the last time you were inspired to pick up a soldering iron?

Hobbyists return to tinkering with hardware


Second International Conference on Trust Management
Topic: Technology 12:44 am EST, Mar 23, 2004

A trust management conference looking at trust from multidisciplinary pespectives: legal, pyschology, philosophy, economic, sociology as well as information technology.

The Second International Conference on Trust Management will take place at St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK, from 29th March to 1st April 2004.

The Conference aims are:

* To facilitate the cross-disciplinary investigation of fundamental issues underpinning computational trust models by bringing together expertise from technology oriented sciences, law, philosophy and social sciences.

* To facilitate the emergence of widely acceptable trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications.

* To facilitate the development of new paradigms in the area of dynamic open systems which effectively utilise computational trust models.

* To facilitate the integration of new trust management paradigms and emerging architectures for Grid computing and Virtual Organisations.

* To help the incorporation of trust management elements in existing standards.

Second International Conference on Trust Management


How Do I Love Thee, TiVo?
Topic: Technology 2:45 pm EST, Mar 20, 2004

DVR owners are still a relatively small niche. But users are a passionate minority, eager to proselytize about the technology to the uninitiated.

"We are part of the TiVolution."

"TiVo has improved [my son's] sense of the value of time."

"[My son] doesn't know about the popular toys or junk food, because he doesn't watch live TV."

"As the business grew, we realized we could have a true lifestyle impact."

Like books piled high on a nightstand, the abundance of selected programs stored on a recorder's hard drive can start to seem more like a challenge than a pleasure to be savored.

Forget Atkins. Forget South Beach. When the Big Mac attacks, fight back with heaping helpings of ... television!

"Your special sauce is no match for my TiVo."

An abundance of cheap corn made America fat. Now, an abundance of cheap disk space will make America thin again.

Okay -- maybe just fat and happy.

How Do I Love Thee, TiVo?


In Searching We Trust
Topic: Technology 9:46 am EST, Mar 19, 2004

Like every self-respecting Hollywood player, Ben Silverman Googles himself. Competitively. "It's become this ridiculous new power game."

It's more like the new kabbalah. Google is many things to many people, and to some, perhaps too much. Google is changing culture and consciousness.

Esther Dyson says that the flood of unedited information demands that users sharpen critical thinking skills, to filter the results. "Google forces us to ask, 'What do we really want to know?'"

Larry Lessig: "Google makes it harder than ever to escape the past."

Google's new headquarters is what graduate school would be like if all the students were rich.

In Searching We Trust


Dave Winer: 'Weblogs and how we can work together'
Topic: Technology 12:23 am EST, Mar 14, 2004

Dave will discuss Weblogs, RSS, aggregators, OPML, content management, how we can work together, and the care and feeding of online communities.

Dave Winer gave a talk in February as part of the Microsoft Research Lecture Series. There is also an extended Q&A discussion between Winer and Microsoft employees. Watch it in streaming video.

Dave Winer: 'Weblogs and how we can work together'


Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks
Topic: Technology 2:03 pm EST, Mar  6, 2004

This study provides an analysis of the development of electronic networks in Europe and North America and their technical, economic and political drivers.

It includes four scenarios depicting possible futures of electronic networks in Europe, a framework for policy formulation, analyses of selected current policies and observations regarding possible policy measures and the input of experts and stakeholders in the field during a workshop in Brussels.

It concludes with a series of observations and recommendations for policy action and further research.

Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks


Orkut: Map of US Membership
Topic: Technology 1:43 pm EST, Feb 21, 2004

Orkut hot-spots include the Boston-Washington and LA-SD corridors, SF and the Silicon Valley, and Chicago.

It would be interesting to contrast the "location" data with the "hometown" data and to look at various migration trends.

Orkut: Map of US Membership


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