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A Slice of German Wikipedia to Be Captured on Paper In an odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of Wikipedia articles in Germany is being produced in book-form by a major publisher. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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A Slice of German Wikipedia to Be Captured on Paper In an odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of Wikipedia articles in Germany is being produced in book-form by a major publisher. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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May 9, 1941: German Sub Caught With the Goods 1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then they let the boat sink -- to keep the fact of their boarding secret. The Enigma machine, used by t Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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May 9, 1941: German Sub Caught With the Goods 1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then they let the boat sink -- to keep the fact of their boarding secret. The Enigma machine, used by t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Jimmy Wales unimpressed with Powerset's Wikipedia search As startups and established players strive to develop Google-killer search technology, conceptual differences in their approaches make for interesting discussion.Case in point: Jimmy Wales' Wikia Search and riva Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google Throws Open Rival for Wikipedia Anon Authors Discouraged Google announced on its official blog Wednesday the debut of Knol, a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia penned by authoritative sources. Udi Manber loves cartoons. Not animations, but the single-panel graphics that appear in magazines like The New Yorker. He studies the hi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Google Throws Open Rival for Wikipedia Anon Authors Discouraged Google announced on its official blog Wednesday the debut of Knol, a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia penned by authoritative sources. Udi Manber loves cartoons. Not animations, but the single-panel graphics that appear in magazines like The New Yorker. He studies the hi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Aug. 25, 1973: More Than One Way to Slice a CAT 1973: The CT scan goes into use in the United States. Lives will be saved. Originally known as a CAT scan -- for computed (or computerized) axial tomography, or computer-aided (or assisted) tomography -- the process uses a series of X-rays to create sequential images of virtual slices o Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Aug. 25, 1973: More Than One Way to Slice a CAT 1973: The CT scan goes into use in the United States. Lives will be saved. Originally known as a CAT scan -- for computed (or computerized) axial tomography, or computer-aided (or assisted) tomography -- the process uses a series of X-rays to create sequential images of virtual slices o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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LG.Philips LCD unrolls 14-inch color e-paper display South Korea's LG.Philips LCD is out to impress at next week's Consumer Electronics Show and will unveil a 14.3-inch color electronic paper display.The display, which is about the same size as an A4-sheet of pape Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Wikipedia scores $3m donation Which is nice Wikipedia, the people's encylopedia, has trousered a $3m donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to be paid in equal chunks over three years. Which is nice. Even nicer, the money hails from a charity, and not from philanthropic venture capitalists, who may or may not have comm Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Wikipedia:Multi-Agent System Wikipedia's entry for multiagent systems is kinda neat. It explains how the wikipedia itself is a multiagent agent systems by breaking it down to its particular tasks, agents, control flow, etc. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > MultiAgent |
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Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center Harvard Law and Berkman Center scholar Yochai Benkler and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstruct Wikipedia and discuss Internet-inspired peer production models. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Fujitsu tackles e-paper's slow screen speed Fujitsu has developed a prototype electronic paper screen that tackles one of the technology's biggest weaknesses: the amount of time it takes to refresh the image.On electronic paper, screens like those used in Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Bits: Wikipedia, Meet Google’s Knol After seven months of testing, Google rolls out Knol, a service that has been described as a Wikipedia killer. Read about it on Wikipedia. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com Readers who caught Dow Chemical erasing mention of the deadly Bhopal spill from its Wikipedia page won Wired.com an award for innovative journalism. The Threat Level blog won the Knight-Batten award for creating a venue for readers to popularize anonymous, whitewashing edits of Wikipedia they found Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com Readers who caught Dow Chemical erasing mention of the deadly Bhopal spill from its Wikipedia page won Wired.com an award for innovative journalism. The Threat Level blog won the Knight-Batten award for creating a venue for readers to popularize anonymous, whitewashing edits of Wikipedia they found Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Google's Knol: It's a Wikipedia Jim But Not As We Know It Free Software Magazine: "Shall I compare thee to a Knol? Hmm, perhaps not. Wikipedia sounds just right. Memorable and serious but not too serious. Of course Wikipedia is now an established "brand" and it has a big headstart on any competitor." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Anonymous buyer pays a wedge for a slice of royal wedding cake A large slice of cake made for the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles has been sold at auction. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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States Want $176 Billion Slice of Stimulus - Washington Post Washington PostStates Want $176 Billion Slice of StimulusWashington Post - 39 minutes agoBy Ceci Connolly When President-elect Barack Obama arrives at Philadelphia's Independence Hall today to meet with the nation's governors, the main question will be not whether he wi Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |