You know, it’s been a terribly long time since I’ve posted my “links” up here. I apologize, but plead Holidays!. Now that we’re back in Glasgow, and our noses back at the grindstone, here’re all of my links for the past 6 or 7 weeks. There’s quite a lot in here, and I hate to point one thing out as a “must read,” but if you read nothing else, you should take a look at The Battle to Preserve an Old Accelerator’s Data. It’s important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it points up some of the central issues in digital preservation. Of interest to me, though, is that the information gathered during the course of the accelerator’s use has been preserved … but that the scientists’ “private” data was destroyed, resulting in an inability to duplicate the actual research which took place. Give it a read and you’ll see why I’m interested in this field, perhaps. That article works hand-in-hand with an article from EFF: Putting the “Public” In Publicly-Funded Research. And, I could go on and on about all the rest of the links, here, but I hope you take the time to settle in for some good reading, in the true spirit of an old-style, links-driven blog.
Computing / Technology
- Stimulus Funding to Help Search Engines Learn on the Job 13 January 2010, 11:30 am
- ‘Wet Computer’ Project Kicks Off 13 January 2010, 11:04 am
- Tidal Energy: Tapping the Power of the Sea 7 January 2010, 9:40 am
- Flexing the Boundaries of Flash Memory 28 December 2009, 11:42 am
- Latest Computer Technology Helps Researchers Listen to Plants 28 December 2009, 11:42 am
- How Could Santa Know If You’ve Been Good or Bad? 23 December 2009, 5:49 pm
- Give a Humanist a Supercomputer… 21 December 2009, 1:08 pm
- Glasgow’s Joking Computer 19 December 2009, 7:54 pm
- Researchers From the University of Seville Work on Sensors to Obtain Environmental Information from Donana 19 December 2009, 7:53 pm
- 5 Google Labs Projects That Should Be on Your Radar 19 December 2009, 7:50 pm
- San Diegans–and Their Cell Phones–Will Help Computer Scientists Monitor Air Pollution 13 December 2009, 10:29 am
- Smartphones Help Collect Data on Malaria Cases in Remote Uganda 14 January 2010, 4:59 am
- Can the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Combat Health Care Waste? 13 January 2010, 11:31 am
- Modern Wireless Technologies Could Save Bushfire Lives 13 January 2010, 11:31 am
- CMU Brain Findings ‘Big Leap Forward’ 13 January 2010, 11:06 am
- Giving Electronic Commands With Body Language 13 January 2010, 11:05 am
- It’s All In How You Say It: Cornell Linguist Studies How the Way We Speak Affects Meaning 8 January 2010, 12:07 am
- The Body Electric 4 January 2010, 9:42 pm
- ‘Invisible bracelet’ for emergency health alerts? 22 December 2009, 7:32 am
- Computing With a Wave of the Hand 19 December 2009, 7:56 pm
- New Web Tool May Help Predict Risk of Second Stroke 19 December 2009, 7:48 pm
- Motion-Sensing Phones That Predict Your Every Move 14 December 2009, 11:05 am
- The Legacy of Howard Carter: Did King Tut’s Discoverer Steal from the Tomb? 15 January 2010, 3:35 am
- Savior of the Diaries: Anne Frank Helper Miep Gies Dies at 100 12 January 2010, 4:05 am
- Alcohol’s Neolithic Origins: Brewing Up a Civilization 24 December 2009, 2:43 am
- Sign Language Puzzle Solved 21 December 2009, 1:08 pm
- University of Minnesota Computer Scientists to Help Track Global Climate Change Through New Data Mining Tools 19 December 2009, 7:56 pm
- Tenure-O-Meter 19 December 2009, 7:53 pm
- The Battle to Preserve an Old Accelerator’s Data 13 December 2009, 10:25 am
- Getting a Grip on School Timetables 14 January 2010, 5:06 am
- ‘Super-Needle’ Training Surgeons 4 January 2010, 8:36 pm
- Scholars Test Emotion-Sensitive Tutoring Software 28 December 2009, 11:43 am
- Helping Children Find What They Need on the Internet 28 December 2009, 11:41 am
- Women’s Issues in Science and Engineering Take Center Stage 23 December 2009, 6:14 pm
- Computer Science Education: It’s Not Shop Class 23 December 2009, 5:48 pm
- Of Girls and Geeks: Environment May Be Why Women Don’t Like Computer Science 19 December 2009, 7:52 pm
- ‘One Keypad Per Child’ Lets Schoolchildren Share Screen to Learn Math 14 December 2009, 11:09 am
- Learning Computer Science From Scratch 14 December 2009, 11:04 am
- A Week to Focus on Computer Science Education 13 December 2009, 10:24 am
- Google brings app-making to the masses 11 December 2009, 12:07 am
- First-Ever Computer Science Education Week Targets Issues in Teaching Computer Science 9 December 2009, 6:34 pm
- Japanese Researcher Unveils ‘Hummingbird Robot’ 4 January 2010, 9:39 pm
- The Year in Robotics 4 January 2010, 8:36 pm
- Intelligent Wheelchairs Will Navigate on Their Own 4 January 2010, 8:36 pm
- Japan’s Robot Revolution Moves From Factory to the Home 4 January 2010, 8:34 pm
- Robot roaches would be a benefit, not a pest 26 December 2009, 12:07 am
- Surgery on Beating Heart Thanks to Robotic Helping Hand 19 December 2009, 8:08 pm
- Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition 19 December 2009, 7:50 pm
- Carnegie Mellon Engineers Develop Machine That Visually Inspects and Sorts Strawberry Plants 19 December 2009, 7:48 pm
- Making TV Social, Virtually 13 January 2010, 11:30 am
- Facebook CEO Zuckerberg causes stir over privacy 12 January 2010, 8:42 am
- Social networking changing the way we travel 22 December 2009, 7:46 am
- HP Researchers Try to Tell You Who Your Friends Are 21 December 2009, 7:37 pm
- Who Knows Who Your Facebook Friends Are? 21 December 2009, 11:45 am
- The World Reacts to The New Facebook 17 December 2009, 3:45 pm
- Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections 13 December 2009, 10:28 am
- Facebook, Twitter boost online sales 9 December 2009, 5:35 pm
- 12 Trends to Watch in 2010 13 January 2010, 1:05 pm
- Have You Been Subjected to Suspicionless Laptop Search or Seizure at the Border? 13 January 2010, 12:51 pm
- Facebook CEO Zuckerberg causes stir over privacy 12 January 2010, 8:42 am
- Updated and Corrected: E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy 6 January 2010, 5:06 pm
- Smart phone apps can find you, follow you 3 January 2010, 5:35 am
- EFF Helps Blogger Subpoenaed by TSA, TSA Backs Down 1 January 2010, 6:44 pm
- FCC moves toward net neutrality rules 31 December 2009, 10:03 am
- Phone points illegal border crossers to water 29 December 2009, 4:46 pm
- Doctorow, How to Destroy the Book 28 December 2009, 5:17 pm
- Fighting Internet Censorship in Australia 24 December 2009, 2:40 pm
- Carnegie Mellon Researcher Says Privacy Concerns Could Limit Benefits From Real-Time Data Analysis 21 December 2009, 1:04 pm
- Who Knows Who Your Facebook Friends Are? 21 December 2009, 11:45 am
- Paris court: Google books project breaks law 19 December 2009, 12:07 am
- The World Reacts to The New Facebook 17 December 2009, 3:45 pm
- Italy contemplates Web restrictions after Berlusconi attack 17 December 2009, 8:42 am
- Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections 13 December 2009, 10:28 am
- Smart CCTV Learns to Spot Suspicious Types 13 December 2009, 10:24 am
- Real ID Follies Continue with PASS ID Waiting in the Wings 11 December 2009, 3:22 pm
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dismisses the Importance of Privacy 10 December 2009, 5:05 pm
- Be A Superhero – Give Today and Get an EFF xkcd Shirt 10 December 2009, 11:07 am
- Latest Bogus DMCA Takedown Award Winner: Yahoo! 7 December 2009, 11:22 am
- A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / Cyber attacks hit Microsoft 15 January 2010, 12:07 am
- Wanted: Cyber Ninjas 14 January 2010, 5:01 am
- Your Keyboard Knows That It’s You and You’re Stressed 14 January 2010, 5:01 am
- Behavioral Identification Can Help Stop Terrorists Like Abdul Mutallab, Researcher Says 13 January 2010, 11:31 am
- White House Calls for IT Boost to Fight Terrorism 13 January 2010, 11:30 am
- Social Science Meets Computer Science at Yahoo 13 January 2010, 11:06 am
- Computer Method ‘Spots Art Fakes’ 8 January 2010, 12:10 am
- IT Rationalises Risks 8 January 2010, 12:09 am
- K-State Computer Scientists Developing Techniques to Strengthen the Security of Information Systems for Health Care, Military Data 8 January 2010, 12:06 am
- Guide to breaking cell phone security revealed 30 December 2009, 2:52 pm
- Hackers’ attacks rise in volume, sophistication 26 December 2009, 5:35 am
- BlackBerry users beset by second outage in a week 23 December 2009, 3:40 pm
- Complex Integrated Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes 21 December 2009, 1:04 pm
- Real-Time Action in a Virtual World 21 December 2009, 1:04 pm
- Disentangling a Billion Dollar Opportunity–Quantum Information 21 December 2009, 1:04 pm
- World Champion in Automatic Image and Video Search 19 December 2009, 7:50 pm
- Translation Technologies Advancing Rapidly: Expert 19 December 2009, 7:50 pm
- A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / Cyber attacks hit Microsoft 15 January 2010, 12:07 am
- Google in China: Unanswered Questions 15 January 2010, 3:38 pm
- Adobe, Yahoo among those hacked with Google? 14 January 2010, 12:07 am
- Yahoo backs Google’s response to China hackers 13 January 2010, 11:40 am
- Google Threatens to Leave China After Attacks on Activists’ E-mail 13 January 2010, 11:04 am
- Baidu shares soar as Google weighs leaving China 13 January 2010, 8:40 am
- Uncensoring China: Bravo Google 12 January 2010, 5:17 pm
- Online job scams rise with unemployment 18 January 2010, 12:07 am
- The Pain of Listening: Using Music as a Weapon at Guantanamo 15 January 2010, 7:51 am
- Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes 13 January 2010, 7:03 am
- France plans its own rival to Google Books 12 January 2010, 10:06 am
- Outlawing Obesity: European Governments Seek to Mandate Healthier Diets 11 January 2010, 9:07 am
- Putting the “Public” In Publicly-Funded Research 9 January 2010, 7:32 pm
- Pentagon Computer-Network Defense Command Delayed by Congressional Concerns 8 January 2010, 12:08 am
- The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus 31 December 2009, 2:39 pm
- The Duty Free Time Bomb: Unions Want Controls On Airport Perfume And Alcohol Sales 31 December 2009, 4:09 am
- A Lethal Mix of Cocaine and Chilies: Drug Use Linked to Pepper Spray Deaths 31 December 2009, 1:40 am
- Financial Instruments Could Be Spiked With Unfindable Risks 28 December 2009, 11:45 am
- Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix 22 December 2009, 3:43 pm
- New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs 21 December 2009, 1:04 pm
- Author Defends Reputation: British Newspapers Misquote German Hitler Researcher 21 December 2009, 6:42 am
- No Neo-Nazi Links: Auschwitz Sign Thieves Arrested 21 December 2009, 2:10 am
- ‘An Abominable Act’: Outrage at Theft of Auschwitz Sign 18 December 2009, 9:15 am
- Holocaust as Career: The Khmer Rouge, the Nazis and the Banality of Evil 18 December 2009, 9:06 am
- CHRIS HEDGES: “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” 18 December 2009, 8:40 am
- The World from Berlin: Guantanamo ‘Far From Closed’ 16 December 2009, 5:36 am
- Mosque Madness: German Group Hopes for EU Referendum on Minarets 15 December 2009, 5:21 am
- In Shift, U.S. Talks to Russia on Internet Security 14 December 2009, 11:03 am
- Government report blasts wireless fees 11 December 2009, 11:33 am
- Fears of Eurabia: How Much Allah Can the Old Continent Bear? 11 December 2009, 9:46 am
- Discrimination Hotspots: New Report Finds Racism Prevalent Across Europe 10 December 2009, 5:17 am
- UK vicar invokes God’s blessing on BlackBerrys 11 January 2010, 7:39 am
- MagicJack’s next act: disappearing cell phone fees 8 January 2010, 11:30 am
- ok they suck 15 December 2009, 12:42 pm
- Tesla hopes long car trip ends ‘range anxiety’ 15 December 2009, 9:41 am
- Green Energy: A Breakthrough for Hydrogen Storage? 14 December 2009, 5:22 am
- Easily the Best New Thing I’ve Learned about Concrete 30 November 2009, 8:46 am
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