Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Presentations online. The presentations from the conference, Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade (Bielefeld, February 3-5, 2004), are now online. Several are on OA and OAI-compliant repositories. [Open Access News] 7:46:24 AM      Google It!.

U.S. gov't buys biggest ever solid-state RAM disk [Science Blog] "The US government has just bought the world's biggest ever solid state disk, a 2.5TB system that is roughly 10,000 times the size of the RAM in a typical PC. The unnamed government agency will reportedly use the device in searching enormous databases, such as those maintained by the NSA and other three-letter security and intelligence organizations." 7:36:55 AM      Google It!.

Robot Vehicle Successfully Navigates Test Course. A robotic vehicle designed by a team from Carnegie Mellon University became the first driverless contestant to navigate a test course in preparation for the Pentagons $1 million robot race this weekend. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 7:24:27 AM      Google It!.

CeBIT to premiere USB Swiss Army Knife. Something horribly inevitable about this [The Register] 7:19:49 AM      Google It!.

Eduventures Forecasts Fully Online U.S. Student Enrollment Will Top One Million in 2005 - Buisness Wire. Eduventures, the leading independent research firm exclusively focused on the learning markets, announces the forthcoming release of its new report, Online Distance Education Market Update: A Nascent Market Matures. While updating Eduventures' research [Online Learning Update] 7:16:22 AM      Google It!.

Fast Company: "The cardinal rule at Google is, If you can do something that will improve the user's experience, do it." [Scripting News] 7:14:53 AM      Google It!.

CMU First To Qualify For DARPA Grand Challenge [Slashdot] 7:12:13 AM      Google It!.