Posts from — September 2003

from Ralph, on the seweb list:

The “Semantic Technologies for E-Government” Conference was held at the White House Conference Centeron September 8th. This was a very successful event with over 130 attendees. Among many agencies represented were Army, Census Bureau, CIA, DIA, DOE, EPA, GSA, IRS, Navy, NARA, NASA, NSA, NSF, SSA, USDA and US Patent Office. A number of attendees were from non-profit organizations such as Aerospace.org and Mitre. Major goverment contractors were also well represented by the attendees from BBN, CSC, Lockheed Martin and SAIC.

today Tim gave me back my draft for significant revisions, as usual, i apparently was going to do too much, which is a perpetual problem with dissertations and he wants me to focus it down a good bit. in focussing it down, i also have to provide more support for my basic positions to show the dissertation is accomplishable.

Monkey Business. Monkeys down tools . – Demand fair pay for a fair day's work.
“ Researchers taught brown capuchin monkeys to swap tokens for food. Usually they were happy to exchange this “money” for cucumber.

But if they saw another monkey getting a grape – a more-liked food – they took offence. Some refused to work, others took the food and refused to eat it. ” [MetaFilter]

COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE. Arnold Kling thinks higher ed is essentially a “holding pen” and needs to transform to survive: Education is at the center of the information age,… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]

Technorati getinfo.

Sifry has just added a new API call to Technorati called getinfo. It lets you get information that a blogger has made available about themselves on their blog like a link to their FOAF file, LOAF file or their GeoURL. The great thing about this is if you've claimed your blog, this is a verifiable way to link your Technorati ID with your blog. LOTS of amazing things this could enable… (There will be a quiz at the end.)

[Joi Ito's Web]

there are some photos over on chaosmint of the new G5 cluster here at Virginia Tech

and more

http://www.macminute.com/2003/09/20/g5cluster

http://computing.vt.edu/research_computing/terascale/images/

these guys make great spice mixes, cheap, fresh, and tasty indian spice mixes, better than you can get most places in the u.s.

Banned books week begins today.. Banned books week begins today. This is the week where the ALA comes out fighting, by raising awareness, against the constant attempts at censorship from ideologues, religious groups, anti-free speech types, etc. Top 100 challenged books here. [MetaFilter]

The U.S. Cultural Policy and the Arts National Dat …. The U.S. Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) contains interactive, machine-readable data sets on the arts and cultural policy. (Thanks to the Scout Report.) [Open Access News]

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I can imagine 30 or so dissertation topics in this data repository just waiting to be written.

Cory brings attention to an important issue at the intersection of technology architecture and society.  If you're an IEEE member like me, now would be a good time to weigh in. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]

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i downloaded the membership roster, it reads like a corporate based team with some academic advisors