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In June 1985, a meeting of representatives of New York State’s leading academic institutions convenes at Cornell University to discuss the creation of a statewide electronic network to connect New York’s major research universities and corporations to
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John H. Marburger, III, Science Adviser to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
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Jane Caviness has had a productive and successful career in higher education and computing. She has held positions of increasing responsibility in computing services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Univ
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Marking a new phase for the Internet, the NSFNET Backbone was decommissioned at midnight on April 30, 1995. The National Science Foundation, which established the NSFNET Program in 1985, began an effort two years ago to privatize the backbone functions.
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The Internet has been a startling and dramatic success. Originally designed to link together a small group of researchers, the Internet is now used by many millions of people. However, multimedia applications, with their novel traffic characteristics and
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The project has a degree of urgency. Becuase of the highly distributed nature of the Internet many of the physical records from the period are in the possession of individuals and are being discarded. Additionally, with the passage of time participant's m
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But history has failed to document this transitional period in any detail. Dr Doug Gale, president of Information Technology Associates, in Montana, is devoting his spare time to filling in the gaps.
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The ultimate recognition of his achievements in Physics came with his 1982 award of the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for discoveries he made in understanding how bulk matter undergoes "phase transition", i.e., sudden and profound structural changes res
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First of five National Science Foundation supercomputing centers established by Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson who inspired the scientific community with the notion that computation is equal with theory and experiment in scientific inquiry
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image of proteon router
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While it applies specifically to National Science Foundation research programs, the requirements are stated in a general context and are believed applicable throughout the Internet community.
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The NSF Network Technical Advisory Group (NTAG), which serves as advisor to NSF staff on network issues in general, including gateways for the explosively growing NSF Internet community, created an ad-hoc subcommittee to establish a first cut at Internet
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USAN (192.17.4) is currently gatewayed to ARPANET via a fuzzball at U Michigan on an experimental basis. The fuzzball gateway is gimmicked with an incredible routing algorithm that provides connectivity for all the j-random networks babbling on the USAN c
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Septic routing – a dose of reality
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It's the first Michigan company to receive the designation and one of only 20 authorized consultants in North America for Google's Web analysis tool.
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Media Advisory 07-038
Early Internet Pioneers Meeting This Week to Celebrate NSFNET: "The Partnership that Changed the World"Event will mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the modern Internet.
NSFNET T1 Backbone and Regional Network
He became very involved in the early stages of the NSFNET networking efforts, and was a Principal Investigator for the NSFNET backbone project since the 1987 NSFNET award to Merit. While being Principal Investigator, the NSFNET backbone became the core in
Wolfgang Schroeter of IBM presented the current state of EASInet as well as the EASInet and EASIgate connection and usage guidelines. EASIgate is IBM's name for the CERN-CORNELL T1 link.
The design on the napkin was expanded to three hand-written sheets of paper from which the first interoperable BGP implementation was quickly developed. A photocopy of these 3 sheets of paper now hangs on the wall of a routing protocol development area at
ANS CO+RE Systems, Inc. ("ANS CO+RE") is a taxable corporation which is wholly owned by Advanced Network & Services, Inc. ("ANS").
We report that our FOIA request for documents detailing discussios on NSFnet privatization, commercialization, ANS, MERIT, IBM etc between NSF Directors (Lane, Massey, Bernthal, and Brownstein.) came up empty We are headed in a new direction (Lindberg at
Phage List: archive, by date. 3/11/88 - Morris Internet Worm - 20th anniversary coming up
Some miles to the east, people heard the shot and fired a cannon there; when sound of that shot reached a cannon farther east, someone fired that one; and so on, in a sequence of hundreds of cannon placed at intervals along the canal route, down the Mohaw
The conferences opened to the public September 9, 1985 with Maya Bernstein and Suprijanto Rijadi as organizers of MEET:STUDENTS, and Kathy Aupperle and Ed Vielmetti as MEET:PLANNERS organizers. It was a time of lots of publicity, handouts, talking to peop
I just realised I can still remember the first ftp site I ever accessed. wuarchive.wustl.edu.
Under the leadership of NSF program managers Jennings, Steve Wolff, and Jane Caviness, NSFNET evolved to a three-tiered architecture: backbone, regional networks, and campus networks.
n this 20 minute recording, we'll hear from the NSF's Chris Greer. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on cyberinfrastructure, digital preservation and much more.
“Fluidity of the market” — “X” dollars, “contractual arrangements between institutions and counsel” — “X” dollars, “purchasing mortgages in bulk and securitizing” — “X” dollars, “rush to file, slow to record after judgment
Vacuum
I am a leader by default, because nature abhors a vacuum. (Desmond Tutu)
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November 2007
November 30, 2007
links for 2007-11-30
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November 29, 2007
Echo Cannonade to open the Erie Canal
The First Book of History, for Children and Youth By Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Source(s): Ian Frazier's "Family," 1994 via the Dead Media Project
A cannon-fire relay communicates and celebrates the opening of the Erie Canal. "In 1825, the first boat bound for New York City left Lake Erie and entered the newly completed Erie Canal. Observers at the point where the canal met the lake saw the boat and fired a cannon. Some miles to the east, people heard the shot and fired a cannon there; when sound of that shot reached a cannon farther east, someone fired that one; and so on, in a sequence of hundreds of cannon placed at intervals along the canal route, down the Mohawk River, and down the Hudson River all the way to New York City. At the final shot, an hour and twenty minutes after the first, the sequence was reversed, from the city all the way back to the lake. The Echo Cannonade (as people called it) announced the opening of the canal and began a big celebration in the city."
Technorati Tags: erie-canal, echo, ping, cannonade, party-like-its-182x, 1825, telegraph
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Dave Mills on Routing in the Internet Swamp
I'm in DC for the NSFNET reunion - here's a deck from 1999 that Dave Mills put together on the view of routing in the Internet in the 1980s.
Technorati Tags: routing, fuzzball, nethistory, elginpelican
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links for 2007-11-29
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As the product of a guild whose members seek payment for treating whatever complaints are brought to them, the manual must be biased toward overmedicalizing so that both doctors and patients can be served under managed care.
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During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the po
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Maybe that's why the young owners of Dick and Jenny's restaurant -- a former corner grocery and po'boy shop, in a bargeboard cottage on Tchoupitoulas Street -- have tried to replicate the past.
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football coaching recruitng via airplane flights
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If you have a Facebook account, you can automatically share new public TypePad posts with Facebook. When you create a new post, you can choose to send a link to that post into Facebook. These links will appear in your Mini-Feed on your Facebook pr
The program will begin at 8:30 a.m. EST on Thursday, November 29 and continue until 5:30 p.m. Later that evening, portions of the the celebratory gathering will be Webcast from roughly 8:00-9:30 p.m. EST. The program continues on Friday, November 30, from
This chapter elaborates on specific types of Message Routers to explain how to provide routing and brokering ability to an integration solution. Most patterns are refinements of the Message Router pattern while others combine multiple Message Routers to s
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November 28, 2007
links for 2007-11-28
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Two-hour interactive workshop to learn how Google Apps can transform how your organization collaborates and communicates featuring Scott Johnston from Google in Mountain View.
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The bad news, obviously, is that I haven't had any spare time to write about drinks. Fortunately, things are not so bad that I haven't had time to drink drinks. That would be a real tragedy.
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To allow full access to the original flight films for both researchers and the general public, Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo f
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In making Facebook's useless-information-production apparatus central, the real value of the network decreases.
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A list of books that MAY be of use to librarians undertaking qualitative research projects.
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“TechDev” stands for “Technology Development,” the group I work in along with Jeremy Zawodny, Simon Willison, Ken Hickman, and now Tom Coates (welcome, Tom!) Bradley Horowitz is our leader.
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Okay, the secret was out a while ago. Beck played at Yahoo for our Hack Day and the show was fantastic. Best of all is the video they made.
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In this inaugural Inside Silicon Valley podcast, the Mercury News sat down with Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's vice president of advanced development, at the Brickhouse open house to discuss the incubator concept and how it will work.
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Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.
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a description of how a company like yahoo does things, via Bradley Horowitz
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He added that the profile of the next half a billion users is going to be very different from that of existing Yahoo users. "Events like the Open Hack Day, is one way of getting to know what value Yahoo can offer to this next half a billion population," F
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brad horowitz quote - certain amount of moments in our life - spend our attention in the most valuable way
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sydney bogg in detroit gone, discussion of heirs in the chocolate business
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a quote from a caterina fake interview on cbc with tod maffin; don't see the actual audio on the net right now
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More specifically, web search innovators all need to think through what makes results "interesting" for a given domain. I like what flickr has done in calling out "interestingness" as a quality worth searching for, and leaving it as a playground for explo
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social network site....
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We are looking for upbeat, smart and happy interns to help put moar cheez on the burgers — so to speak.
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My chest fridge (Vestfrost freezer turned into a fridge) consumes about 0.1 kWh a day. It works only about 2 minutes per hour. At all other times it is perfectly quiet and consumes no power whatsoever. My wind/solar system batteries and power-sensing inve
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If you cannot tell, I am a map junkie. I love maps. I love finding where I am and I love getting lost. I love place and space. I love maps.
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November 27, 2007
Bradley Horowitz at U of Michigan campus
Brad Horowitz talked at UMich today. Here are unedited notes....(well, lightly edited).
I was deliciousing links along the way too.
thanks for coming! good to hear the talk.
some notes:
john laird introduces; yahoo speaker series.
bradley grew up in flordia, moved to michigan, "flower king" in livonia
michigan, gymnast in high school. as undergrad in ATL down in the lab
doing all kinds of ramesh jain, terry weymouth, brian shunk (sp??)
from here we lost him to mit media lab to entrepreneur with ramesh,
a bunch of companies, most recently landed at yahoo. vp product strategy.
another indication of us building relationships with yahoo. connections.
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here to convince you to work with or work at; phd dropout, stay in school kids.
thank my host, incredible day, saw my parents in livonia, overwhelmed by the
work today and its resonance with yahoo. working with us despite us and
around us. a lot to make that easier.
the worst student to stand up in front of you all and profess to have knowledge.
almost failued out a couple of times. came in as CS via LSA and took great books
and history of music and art and not interested in requirements. instead up in
ATL building having fun. took 6 years to get degree and graduate. like george
costanza, scholarship for "rebel bad students", on teh verge of dropping out.
really cool job, now VP Advanced Development Divions, "VP ADD". advanced
in the sense of a scout on the horizon, what's next.
career: looking for first real job, a place to park between startups, fell into yaho0
(after virage...) attitude lasted for a day. quality and caliber of people there. not
a company crowing about how smart they are, "very humble guys". taken by
level of their game. one report, doing multimedia search, image search; launched
video, audio, desktop search. then stumbled across flickr.
helped bring flickr to acquire them. poster child for web 2.0 movement. user-generated
content, rich interfaces with ajax.
runs speaker series for yahoo, brought in Negativland band for IP theft
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why do you find the internet depressing? you see what people are
actually doing with this stuff, stupid pet tricks or worse. brings out
the worst in people in a lot of ways.
the antidote is the most interesting photos on flickr.
heuristics that separate the wheat through the chaff, through
the lens of personal
"attention is our most precious asset"
flickr - "lowering the barrier to participation"
flickr compared to computer vision; "computer vision is hard";
man plus machine, not man versus machine.
what makes flickr special?
4. flickr services, api, language bindings, encourage 3d parties
to make flickr bettr.
"this is emergent".
"community and themselves monitor that"
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Edward Vielmetti +1 734 330 2465
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links for 2007-11-27
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The prize shot from Warm, Fuzzy Place is this shot of then-Mayor Dennis Kucinich presenting a proclamation to our hero.
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Sugih Jamin is co-founder and CTO of the Swiss/American startup Zattoo, which offers free live-television via Internet. He agreed that I record his Red Herring 100 presentation in Cannes:
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Against market trends, Dzanc Books is a small publisher poised to succeed, hiring staff and expanding quickly. And that may be because it sprouted from a blog rather than a traditional printing press, and it is certainly web-savvy.
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the extent to which players are experiencing satisfaction of these needs can be quickly and objectively measured and show statistically significant relationships with enjoyment and immersion, as well as commercial outcomes such as ongoing subscriptions (d
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"We do not believe that if it was ad-based and focused on generating revenue we would have achieved the growth we have."
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To use, dispense a length of the tissue, place over the tear, and burnish with a bone folder. Working the adhesive into the tear causes the adhesive to strengthen the tear aswell as cover and support the area around the tear.(tags: mending-tape books)
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According to Jim Rokakis, the County Treasurer for Cleveland's Cuyahoga County, "Wall Street strategies that made the cycle of no-money-down, no-questions-asked lending possible have sucked the life out of my city".
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In 1215, the church decreed that a “licit” marriage must take place in church. But people who married illictly had the same rights and obligations as a couple married in church: their children were legitimate; the wife had the same inheritance rights;
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Except as otherwise stated above, Hotwire will not disclose your personal information with any third party without your consent. (except that they will give it to Facebook who will beacon it to all your friends).
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One who intentionally intrudes, physically or otherwise, upon the solitude or seclusion of another or his private affairs or concerns, is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy, if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reason
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A copy of a customer service email sent from Hotwire in response to a complaint regarding Facebook's new Beacon advertising system.
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scientific communication is a different beast than normal human communication. Scientists talk to their friends, but when talking to people they don’t know, it’s much more formal. They use communication to spec theories and to claim ground as theirs.
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November 26, 2007
Hotwire and Facebook Beacon
UPDATED: to make it more clear who is saying what!
0. My trip reservations (I got a great hotel deal) sent to Facebook, and noted on Flickr by Matt Hampel, with some surprise, in a post "Ed What?"
I sincerely hope that Facebook sees some righteous response about this weird privacy advertising-without-paying-us business.
1. Complaint to Hotwire, written by me.
I spoke with Tracy (employee number 1258) regarding a concern that I had that Hotwire was misusing certain data that I had an expectation of privacy on by sharing it with Facebook which in turn sent a note to 300 of my friends, one of whom asked if I was spamming them and if it was really me. I'm generally happy with Hotwire, and it's saved me a bunch of money, and I tell my friends that I use it, but the details of the interaction with Facebook and your customer service professional's insistence that I take up the problem with Facebook (with whom I have never spent any money) is disappointing. I would like an apology from Hotwire for spamming my friends, a setting in the Hotwire application to prevent it from ever happening again, and two free night's stay to compensate me for the hassle that you have put me through so far in explaining that no, I didn't spam all of them with details of where I buy my tickets.
2. From Hotwire customer service:
Dear Edward,
Thank you for contacting Hotwire regarding Facebook.
I regret the trouble you have had with Facebook.
Facebook Beacon provides advanced privacy controls so Facebook users can decide whether to distribute specific actions from participating sites with their friends. If you decide to use Facebook Beacon it means you have chosen to share your personal online usage information.
If you are logged onto your Facebook and complete a transaction on Hotwire, a pop-up window appears on the lower right corner. The pop-up presents a story about your booking.
If you do nothing or close the pop-up window, the story appears on your friends News Feed and their own Facebook homepage Mini-Feed. If you click "No Thanks" the story is not published.
Your friend sees the story and clicks on the link. For Hotwire they are taken to the vertical landing page.
Important: They do not see any information about what was purchased or personal billing information about you, the Facebook Beacon user.
For the privacy policy with Facebook go to
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. You can also go to
privacy@facebook.com
I apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this has caused.
If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to reply to this
email or contact us directly at 1-866-HOTWIRE (468-9473). Thank you for
choosing Hotwire.
Sincerely,
Valerie R
Hotwire Customer Care
www.hotwire.com
3. From Facebook customer service
Hi Edward,
Just as News Feed has always enabled you to share the actions you take on Facebook with your friends, now you can share many of the actions you take on rest of the web as well.
Facebook is now affiliated with a variety of websites to have the actions you take on their sites pulled back into Facebook and communicated to your friends through News Feed. To take advantage of this feature, you must be logged into Facebook while you interact with one of these affiliated sites. When you perform an action on an affiliated site, you have the option to have this action generate a story in your friends’ News Feed. You will always be notified and given the opportunity to opt out of having that particular story published.
As a Facebook user, you have complete control to determine your privacy settings for the actions you take on other websites. The next time you navigate to the Facebook Home page after interacting with an affiliated site, you’ll receive a second reminder that that website is about to publish a story on your behalf. Again, you can choose not to publish that particular story. You also have the option to specify whether you want that website to always publish stories, notify you before publishing stories, or never publish stories for you. As always, Facebook gives you full control of your information. You can edit your privacy at any time from the Privacy Settings for Third-Party Websites page.
Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this new feature.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Reece
Customer Support Representative
UPDATES:
Links on this topic (oh, there are a lot; just picking some contemporary ones):
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life / Some Thoughts on the Facebook Beacon
Recently I’ve read a number of negative posts about the Facebook Beacon which highlight how easy it is for a company to completely misjudge the privacy implications and ramifications of certain features in social software applications.
MoveOn to Facebook: We caught you red-handed
Shortly thereafter, the back-and-forth spat continued as MoveOn's Adam Green issued a response to the response. "Facebook has made zero changes in Beacon since last week--their policy remains opt-out instead of opt-in, their opt-outs remain well hidden, and if someone does jump through the hoops of opting out it only applies to purchases made on one external web site instead of all sites," Green's statement read. "Why did Facebook pro-actively make it harder for Facebook users to protect their privacy by eliminating the global opt-out feature days before Beacon's launch?"
MORE UPDATES:
41 sites using Facebook Beacon
Below is the full list and, when available, what information the websites send to Facebook. The one entry I found the most interesting was the one for Redlight. As I mention below, I couldn't find any site that went by that name that wasn't an adult site. Maybe the same people who share their porn viewing are the ones who are interested in Random Play?
Technorati Tags: beacon, facebook, giant-global-graph, hotwire, spam, travel
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links for 2007-11-26
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The planning committee intends to invite the following individuals to the NSFNET celebration event on November 29-30, 2007, and has email and/or postal contact information for these people.
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Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. [Tobler, 1970, p.236]
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this global graph is used for long term tracking of individuals, groups of people and crowd evolving in the scene (typically on hundreds of frames).
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We introduce an improved hybrid model that combines a global graph (a random power law graph) with a local graph (a graph with high local connectivity defined by network flow).
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The Sematic Web Client Library represents the complete Semantic Web as a single RDF graph. The library enables applications to query this global graph using SPARQL- and find(SPO) queries.
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The graph provided by a single site is referred to as its local graph and the knowledge base that emerges from the aggregation of these local graphs is referred to as the global graph. Graph super-positioning aggregates the global graph from the local gra
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November 25, 2007
links for 2007-11-25
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Brian Dettmer sifts through stacks of antiquated books, boxes of dusty cassette tapes, and piles of obsolete maps to uncover the perfect source and subject for his conceptual explorations and sculptural dissections.
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