Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

"I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modes... members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is al... internet pioneer.
Her DIY solution to a neighbour's internet connectivity ...
That is 35 times faster than the 28.9 Mbps average UK

For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT resea... to increase the speed of one of the most important algor... information sciences.

Book review
THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ...

In the 1960s, Sister Keller studied at the University of... also studied at Purdue, the University of Michigan, and ... Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its comput... allowed Keller to help develop the computer language BAS...
Keller’s

A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te...
A 16-year-o

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This all happened a couple of years ago – just before ... search entirely and handed that part of its business ove... Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the sma... has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But ...
To me, the

In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilita... rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a de... nostalgia.

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic... GeoJSON object may represent a geometry, a feature, or a... features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types:... Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and ... Features in

The Gift of the Gab?: A Design OrientedSociology of Youn...
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Source Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Volume 12 , Issue 3 (2003) table of contents
... e, University of Surrey, Guild

The idea of the Good Country Index is pretty simple: to ... country on earth contributes to the common good of human... takes away. Using a wide range of data from the U.N. and... international organisations, we’ve given each country ... show at a g

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship.

Content API
Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. ...

The Hanging Chain
The first continuous system whose normal modes were know ...

history of computing project

Amazon’s new Dash Button, which will allow shoppers to... used domestic products like laundry detergent or paper t... click of a real-life button, is not a joke. Many people ... mostly because the announcement came the day before Apri... also becaus

Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete.

The idea that writing should be clear, concise, and low-... new one—and it isn’t limited to government agencies,... problem of needlessly complex writing—sometimes referr... “opaque writing style”—has been explored in fields... to science.

The imperatives of the link economy
At a Berkman center session last week about supporting i ...
1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with ...
2. The recipient of links is the party responsible for m ...
... networks to help the recipients

In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my family’s rural home... oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little tim... possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I stil...
I’ve hear

We provide tight upper and lower bounds, up to a constan... number of inputs and outputs (I/OS) between internal mem... storage required for five sorting-related problems: sort... Fourier transform (FFT), permutation networks, permuting... transpositi

So were you able to keep your job when you got married?
I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they ...
The "law" Kolchin refers to is not so much a law but a c ...
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In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

I’m fascinated by consciousness, I’ve studied it for... and I have some things to say about it.
My name is Robin Faichney and I’m a philosopher. (I’ ...