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Craig Silverstein : intro + how Google began

By Fred | Published: February 11, 2012
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Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

By Fred | Published: November 6, 2011

From: TED

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2010 Turing Lecture delivered at FCRC’11, June 5, 2011, in San Jose, CA, USA

By Fred | Published: October 8, 2011

2010 Turing Lecture delivered at FCRC’11, June 5, 2011, in San Jose, CA, USA Full Citation Over the past 30 years, Leslie G. Valiant has made fundamental contributions to many aspects of theoretical computer science. His work has opened new frontiers, introduced ingenious new concepts, and presented results of great originality, depth, and beauty. Time [...]

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Civic Commons – Let’s Transform Governments With Tech and Innovation

By Fred | Published: October 8, 2011

(and Save Millions of Dollars, Too) Government entities at all levels face substantial and similar IT challenges, but today, each must take them on independently. Why can’t they share their technology, eliminating redundancy, fostering innovation, and cutting costs? We think they can.   Civic Commons – Overview from Civic Commons on Vimeo. From:Civic Commons

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Free antivirus Mac OS X

By Fred | Published: October 7, 2011

Sophos Mac Home Edition Clamxav with Clamav backend  

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How to Create a .deb package from source files

By Fred | Published: September 21, 2011

Assuming that your build from source is successful, you can make a Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb): First, install checkinstall: > sudo apt-get install checkinstall Rebuild the package using checkinstall: > cd /path/to/extracted/package > ./configure > sudo make > sudo checkinstall It’s done! Get the resulting “.deb” file for future use. It can later be installed [...]

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How to find out DNS servers

By Fred | Published: July 21, 2011

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager domain mds.net search mds.net nameserver 10.68.14.245 nameserver 10.68.14.244 Windows OS: C:\>ipconfig /all

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Hacking the Code of the Mind

By Fred | Published: July 21, 2011

TAU team connects neurons to computers to decipher the enigmatic code of neuronal circuits A neuronal circuit engineered in the TAU lab. Machine logic is based on human logic. But although a computer processor can be dissembled and dissected in logical steps, the same is not true for the way our brains process information, says Mark [...]

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Air Power: New Device Captures Ambient Electromagnetic Energy to Drive Small Electronic Devices

By Fred | Published: July 11, 2011

Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems.  By scavenging this ambient energy from the air around us, the technique could provide a new way to power networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communications chips. Georgia Tech [...]

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Release of DataCatalogs.org to map open data around the world

By Fred | Published: July 1, 2011

The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. We’re very pleased to announce an alpha version of datacatalogs.org, a website to help keep track of open data catalogues from around the world. The project is being launched to coincide with our annual conference, OKCon 2011. You can see the [...]

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