Friday, December 6, 2002

DigitalGovernmentOnline, December 2002 Bridging the Data Gap Scientists at the Digital Government Research Center are using metadata, machine translation and database mapping to find ways of connecting citizens with valuable government data locked up inside vast, complex and heterogeneous databases. 12:40:33 PM

DigitalGovernmentOnline, December 2002 How dramatically will technology change research universities? A new National Academies report, "Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University," examines this issue and how university officials should prepare. 12:35:36 PM

Saving Your Bits for Posterity By Julia Scheeres, Wired, 02:00 AM Dec. 06, 2002 PT Someday, long after you're dead, your descendents will rummage through the minutia of your life, eavesdropping on long-ago phone conversations, reading private e-mail exchanges and watching the video highlights of your existence. That's the idea behind MyLifeBits, a new Microsoft research project that aims to record the essence of a person's life on computer disks: every photograph snapped, home movie filmed, Web page browsed, e-mail scribbled, phone call made or bill paid. 4:51:44 AM

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