Thursday, February 09, 2006

speed IBM to use Cell in Blade Servers. [Slashdot] 11:36:13 AM    comment

violent Danish, Western Websites Under Attack. [Slashdot] this advertising medium is a new venue on the quickly expanding front -- BL 9:57:06 AM    comment

health Veggies contain chemicals that boost DNA repair, protect against cancer. Need another reason to eat your vegetables? New research shows that some vegetables contain chemicals that appear to enhance DNA repair in cells, which could lead to protection against cancer development, say Georgetown University Medical Center researchers. [Science Blog -] 9:32:49 AM    comment

eContent mapping D-Lib on Folksonomies. D-Lib Magazine, sponsored by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), just came out with their January issue. It includes a thoughtful commentary by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin about Foksonomies: Tidying up Tags? Guy and Tonkin report about their brief analysis of tags in flickr and del.icio.us and conclude that "only ten to fifteen percent" of tags are single-use tags; they describe "a single, fairly stable, shared ontology" developing and analogize it to a creole language developing from a pidgin language. Their conclusion: [Academic Commons -] 9:02:29 AM    comment

AI therapy Europeans meld sensory perceptions in a machine. Teaching a machine to sense its environment is one of the most intractable problems of computer science, but one European project is looking to nature for help in cracking the conundrum. It combined streams of sensory data to produce an adaptive, composite impression of surroundings in near real-time. The team brought together electronic engineers, computer scientists, neuroscientists, physicists, and biologists. It looked at basic neural models for perception and then sought to replicate aspects of these in silicon. [Science Blog -] 8:55:13 AM    comment

search Search engine, find engine. I've experimented with a few different ways of searching this blog. The structured search feature exploits microformats, and can find things like Ward Cunningham quotes and XSLT snippets. The infoworld explorer works in a purely navigational mode, relying on tag discovery. And the infoworld power search repackages the output of InfoWorld's Ultraseek engine into a slightly more palatable format, classifying articles by type. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:36:22 AM    comment

AI U.S. Gov To Spider Internet. [Slashdot] 8:34:39 AM    comment

"The World is Flat" and "Ha Ha Ha America". In this lecture covering topics from his latest book, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore [Toronto] and Bethesda next-door neighbors. This lecture is available through the MIT Open Courseware Project. For an interesting companion piece to this lecture, have a look at the recent short film Ha Ha Ha America, by Jon Daniel Ligon, available on the Sundance Festival site at: http://festival.sundance.org/2006/watch/film.aspx?which=402&;category=DOC [Academic Commons -] 8:31:21 AM    comment