Archives for February 2008
BIF Innovation Story Studio Videos available on-line
From the website:
"The BIF Innovation Story Studio isn't just an archive of cool videos, interviews, audio and narrative pieces. It is BIF's platform for helping our innovation community learn from each other, share their wisdom, and revel in the outcomes of our experiments, whether they succeed or fail. Take a look. Take a listen. And, if you have a good story to share, let us know ."
Link to BIF Innovation Story Studio Videos
Austin Tech Happy Hour
The Austin Tech Happy Hour is for young technology professionals to relax and network with each other.
It is designed to facilitate adding new contacts to your network, for discussing current technology innovations, and even for finding a candidate to add to your team.
Link to Austin Tech Happy Hour
Dubai Tower now officially the world's tallest building
Courtesy Burjdubai
The Dubai tower, still under construction in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, is now world's tallest free-standing structure
The Burj Dubai tower is now 555 metres (1,831.5 feet) tall and has surpassed the 553-metre- (1,824.9-feet) CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, which had held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure since 1976.
Link to the Dubai Tower
Competition heats up for web video - Microsoft Silverlight vs Adobe Flash
Microsoft TM
Adobe TM
The new Microsoft Silverlight video player can achieve 720p high-definition video rate - higher that the current Adobe Flash offering.
To counter this - Adobe is releasing "Moviestar", an upgrade to Flash that supports better-quality video than the current player.
Microsoft will also soon release a Linux version of Silverlight - to be called "Moonlight".
Microsoft has also released its Expression Encoder 1.0 software for designers to create Silverlight content.
Link to Microsoft Silverlight
Link to Adobe Flash
IT focused "Difference Engine" blog at CIO Magazine edited by Abbie Lundberg
Courtesy CIO Magazine
The Difference Engine, invented in 1821, was an early precursor to the modern computer.
Today, IT is making a difference in every aspect of work, play, politics and life. This blog (edited by Abbie Lundberg, Editor, CIO Magazine) reports on interesting new applications of technology and the people behind them. It comments on the changes taking place and what they mean for decision-making around and management of IT.
http://advice.cio.com
The Colossus Mk2 Rebuild Project
Courtesy Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust
From the UK National Museum of Computing website:
"The Rebuild by the Colossus Rebuild Project, Leader Anthony E Sale Hon FBCS, has taken 10 years and has involved over 6,000 man-days of volunteer effort. At a conservative daily rate of £200 this gives a value of £1.2 Million for the Colossus Mk 2 Rebuild.
The Rebuild is now working and can demonstrate most of the code breaking work against the German Lorenz cipher in WW II.
The Rebuild stands in its historically correct place, the room in H Block, in Bletchley Park, where Colossus No. 9 stood in WW II."
Link to the The Colossus Mk2 Rebuild Project
IS Curriculum Wiki for universities now on-line
This wiki is intended as a resource for the Information Systems community for the development, maintenance, and archival of Information Systems model curricula. It was initiated and is currently administered by the Joint ACM/AIS Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Task Force. The planned community-led curriculum development process is described on this site.
The ACM/AIS Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Task Force is responsible for editing the actual content pages, but we invite all members of the IS community to register as users of this wiki and participate in the discussion.
Link to the IS Curriculum Wiki