01.24.08 - 06:53pm
I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .
… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:
01.18.08 - 11:59pm
It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my [...]
01.10.08 - 12:33am
Originally written on May 24, 2007.
Internet2 (aka I2), a high speed research network with over 200 universities, can also be used for transferring non-research related data like music or movie files.
In April 2005, when I heard that the RIAA was going after people on Internet2, I remember asking my colleague, “How the hell did they [...]
11.04.07 - 11:58pm
I recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing Conference in Orlando, FL. Nearly 1,400 women who were undergraduates, PhD students, faculty, staff, and other working professionals gathered to discuss technology and changing the future through computer science, information technology, research and engineering. It wasn’t so much as a “rah rah” [...]
10.26.07 - 11:58pm
Earlier this month, a friend of mine who’s on the Board of Berkeley Engineering’s Dean’s Society invited me to accompany him to their event on “The Future of Technology” at the Googleplex.
The talk focused on the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and their involvement with technology. First year engineering courses in the college [...]
09.28.07 - 11:29am
I was invited to sit in on the first ever college class on Facebook: Creating Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook taught by Dr. BJ Fogg from Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Dave McClure of 500 Hats. With over 100 people registered for the new course, even a new location change [...]
09.27.07 - 06:40pm
Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.)
The focus [...]
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