opinion article in NYT by By ANDREW LIH, JUNE 20, 2015
Andrew Lih is an associate professor of journalism at American University and the author of “The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia.”
Cognitive Design 2005 @mprove Technological Dreams & Nightmares – An Outlook To The (Near) Future Hermann Maurer, Professor at the Technical University of Graz, Director IICM & Chairman Hyperwave Inc. Memory, Plato etc ca 23 min into the video "what we really have to think about is not how we learn but whnhat we should learn" "we are on very shake grounds
in a Swedish book about libraries I found this reference to Vinton Cerf's lecture "The Future of Information and Communication Technology" However, the lecture is presented in a commercial format, which is not accessible with the web browser I use. I wish the new library of Alexandria would offer this lecture, and all web content, also in formats which are compatible and readable with open standards and free software.
"Thanks to Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, in 1949, when he published his degree thesis in Philosophy at the Papal Gregorian University of Rome, entitled “The Thomistic Terminology of Interiority”, father Roberto Busa could start his work. Index Thomisticus was completed just 30 years later, now considered an outstanding mileage in Informatics and computing in humanities"
April 11, 2011 The cloud, along with subscription and on-demand services, will transform our perception of content access and ownership. "Ten, 15 years from now, we will look back on this time as a quaint, yet painful transition period: one where consumer
Adam Gopnik. Never-Betters, Better-Nevers and Ever-Wasers. "It is odd and new to be living in a library; but there isn't anything odd and new about the library", say the last-mentioned. "The Age of the inverted self" sällskapet stävjar aptiten; nätverk
"Leading Digital Media Services" "OverDrive provides world-class infrastructure for distributing premium digital content. We empower publishers, enterprises, libraries, schools, and retailers to maximize their presences in the digital world by enabling th
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
(July 6, 2010) On July 1, 2010, all Finnish citizens will have a legal right to access a 1 Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection, reportedly making Finland the first country to accord such a right. The government has also pledged to make the minimum speed of connection 100 MBPS by 2015. (Finland Makes Broadband […]