Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
NASA - Voyager 2 Proves the Solar System is Squashed
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"San Francisco, CA. - NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars."
The Team That Put the Net in Orbit - New York Times
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"AS a young NASA engineer during the 1980s, Milo Medin liked to irritate his managers by building scientific computer networks using freely available Internet software that outperformed more costly commercial systems."
Monday, December 10, 2007
Android
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"The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. To help developers get started developing new applications, we're offering an early look at the Android Software Development Kit."
MIT digitizes its courses, throws them online, and asks ‘What now?” - Network World
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"MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. And everyone involved seems quite happy with being unsure about why exactly it’s important."
ABC News: Granny Hackers Make History
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"During World War II the Army ran out of male mathematicians and turned to six women to program the world's first computer - ENIAC. Historian Kathy Kleiman (left) has recorded oral histories of these women - now in their 80s - in her upcoming documentary film, 'Invisible Computers.' Shown here (from left) are Jean Bartik, Marlyn Meltzer and the late Kathleen Mauchly Antonelli. Seated is the late Betty Snyder Holberton."
Computer servers 'as bad' for climate as SUVs - earth - 03 December 2007 - New Scientist Environment
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"Computer servers are at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global aviation industry, warns a new report."
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Interview: Super Mario Galaxy Director On Sneaking Stories Past Miyamoto | Game | Life from Wired.com
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"Ever been touched by a storyline element in a Mario or a Zelda game? You can thank Yoshiaki Koizumi, director of Super Mario Galaxy and a 16-year veteran of Nintendo's top development teams."
Indie Game Designers Find Inspiration By Thinking Small | Game | Life from Wired.com
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"To close out this year's Montreal International Game Summit, one group of ambitious designers asked their peers to think very, very small."
Monday, December 3, 2007
PC World - 5 Things We Miss About Old-School Computing
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"We zip along at gigahertz speed, not megahertz. We store gigabytes instead of kilobytes. Going strictly by the numbers, we're living in a computing paradise compared with 20 or 30 years ago, when the personal-computer revolution was just beginning. But there are a few things from the old days that we still cherish."

