Blogs
Info Retrieval in Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits Project
September 11, 2011 - 23:36 — cjohnsonhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/magazine/09Immortality-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
"The problem isn't putting it all in. The proble is getting it out," says Bell. "When I started, I couldn't find anything!" (1)
Modeling Climate Change with Crowdsourced Weather Data
September 11, 2011 - 23:34 — dave
Organizing Laptops as Marketing Strategy
September 11, 2011 - 21:57 — cheIs it a Museum, a Library or a School?
September 11, 2011 - 21:04 — Andreaangquisthttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24naturalhistory-...
Despite having the word 'museum' in it's name, the American Museum of Natural History is no longer just a museum. As of 2009, the Museum is also an accredited graduate university, complete with it's own massive research library.
Stellar Oddballs
September 11, 2011 - 20:08 — dlynnhttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/74449/title/Stellar_oddballs
The Kepler telescope, launched a little
over two years ago, has quietly been orbiting about the sun in
Earth's trail capturing the dimming and brightening of nearly 160,000
stars. Every 30 minutes for 24 hours a day Kepler takes a snapshot,
gathering the photometry of individual stars in the same patch of sky
between Cygnus and Lyra. This incredible wealth of data has already
yielded more than 1200 identifiable extrasolar planets for the
Kepler team as well as a growing list of unknown phenomenon. This
Why Metadata Will Define the Future of TV
September 11, 2011 - 19:49 — taeil2The landscape of TV viewing has changed in the past
decade. With the advent of faster internet and mobile devices, TV shows have expanded past just the
television. Now, people want to be able
to watch TV everywhere: computers, phones, tablets, etc.
