Emerging Technologies Toolkit 2.0
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Emerging Technologies Toolkit 2.0.1
Emerging Technologies Toolkit 2.0.1
05/03/2004 01:59 PMA toolkit for executing emerging autonomic and grid-related
technology.
Emerging Technologies at Berkeley
Emerging Technologies at Berkeley
03/06/2004 01:57 AMI spent today at the University of California at Berkeley Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Departments Annual Research
Symposium. It was a blast, in many ways the academic equivalent of the
O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference I went to two weeks ago.
Instead of the O'Reilly fare of Robots and Quantum Dots and
Programmable Matter and Emergent Democracy Worldwide, they had Smart
Dust, Electric Clothes (Transistors made from woven textiles),
Circuits printed on Plastic and Technology Research for Developing
Regions. While some of the subjects were similar to ETech, the crowd
and format were very different. While anyone who stumbled across the
website in the last month could register and attend for free, the
crowd consisted almost entirely of invited academics and members of
the research divisions of large corporations, plus a few Europeans and
a very large crowd from Finland. Instead of young hackers giving talks
then joining the audience, there were graduate students who gave
presentations or demos but then went back to their labs/cubes. The
conference appeared to be primarily Berkeley CS and EE showing their
stuff to current and potential sponsors and collaborators. Nothing
wrong with that, and I was delighted with the chance to attend and see
the profs and grad students present their research results. I was very
impressed with the breadth of the research being done, and with the
number of labs that are scattered around town, working on things as
different as extremely low power self organizing sensors connected by
wireless networks to very interesting design methodologies for
real-time fault tolerant software. I suspect that the people who tied
up Sprint's application to put up 3 cell antennas on a building in
Berkeley for 2 years have no idea of all the wacky and creative things
that the UC wireless researchers are up to with radio in Berkeley. I
probably won't get a chance to write up my notes, but if I don't and
you are interested, I highly recommend the three (1, 2, 3) talks
mentioned above, all of which are archived on the Berkeley CSEE web
site....
Snippets from Emerging Technologies -
Tuesday A.M.
Snippets from Emerging Technologies -
Tuesday A.M.
03/17/2005 03:59 AM Networks of amateurs (in astronomy, publishing) are displacing the
professionals -- Leabeater, quoted by Rael Dornfest Too much important
knowledge is locked up on paper where it's not searchable and hard to
get to. -- Jeff Bezos, also by Rael. Pay attention to design patterns
for innovation -- Tim...
IS execs tell how emerging technologies
make the grade
IS execs tell how emerging technologies
make the grade
05/20/2004 04:15 PMCAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - Sorting out the buzzword of the day from
those technologies that will make a difference to one's business
requires a well-defined process and criteria, according to a couple of
IS executives speaking at Wednesday's CIO Symposium, sponsored by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of
Management.
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Demo 2004 preview: What's hot in
emerging technologies
Demo 2004 preview: What's hot in
emerging technologies
02/13/2004 05:19 PMThe annual event features 67 hand-picked technology companies and more
than 500 attendees on hand to check out IT products and trends likely
to have an impact on business this year.
DomainNesteggs.com Ties Emerging
Technologies to the Internet
DomainNesteggs.com Ties Emerging
Technologies to the Internet
01/01/2005 04:09 AMWhat will the world be like in a decade or two? Well, most assuredly
we won’t be “driving flying cars or having homes on Mars”. But our
lives will be radically different, declares Ted Stalets, a Nashville
futurist who has been studying emerging technologies since the birth
of personal computers. According to Ted, “Big changes are coming
within our lifetime – in areas like the Internet, Virtual Reality,
Robotics, Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. And my website at
www.DomainNesteggs.com provides carefully researched Internet
addresses for these emerging industries.” [PRWEB Jan 1, 2005]
Bob Zaloga Named Director of Emerging
Technologies at Media Brokers
International
Bob Zaloga Named Director of Emerging
Technologies at Media Brokers
International
02/01/2005 09:20 PMMedia Brokers International (media-brokers.com), a recognized player
in the Advertising related media buying and planning industry,
recently named Bob Zaloga to serve as their Director of Media Services
– Emerging Technologies. He will be responsible for establishing the
company's strategic direction and leading the sales and marketing
efforts related to emerging technology based companies. [PRWEB Jan 27,
2005]
INSYSTEK CEO Presents on the Future of
IT Management at Kansas Emerging
Technologies Showcase
INSYSTEK CEO Presents on the Future of
IT Management at Kansas Emerging
Technologies Showcase
03/26/2005 04:53 AMIT management software provider CEO discusses emerging technologies in
the IT management marketplace with a focus on Common Information model
(CIM) technology. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2005]
Ananomouse’s Kinship Analysis Platform,
Bloodhound, Selected for Emerging
Technologies Conference
Ananomouse’s Kinship Analysis Platform,
Bloodhound, Selected for Emerging
Technologies Conference
09/08/2004 02:53 AMAnanomouse Corporation has been invited to present its kinship
analysis software platform, Bloodhound™, at the prestigious Emerging
Technologies Conference held at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Following a jury
selection process, Bloodhound was found to be a technology of
sufficient innovation as to be included as a showcase presenter.
[PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]
eASIC was Chosen to Present its
Innovative Structured ASIC Technology at
the Emerging Technologies Conference at
MIT
eASIC was Chosen to Present its
Innovative Structured ASIC Technology at
the Emerging Technologies Conference at
MIT
09/23/2004 02:44 AMeASIC® Corporation was chosen to present at the Emerging Technologies
Conference Showcase, organized by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of
Innovation, on MIT's campus, on September 29-30, 2004. A total of
thirty companies were selected through a juried process led by
Technology Review's staff. [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]
Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues.
Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues.
08/27/2004 01:57 PMThere is a growing user and business interest in being able to
transport relevant information between sites. This obviously raises
big security issues. The friend of a friend (FOAF)project is a
practical experiment designed to identift and solve some of the
problems arising from using semantic web technology. [PRWEB Aug 27,
2004]
Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference
Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference
05/31/2004 02:13 PMiRobot, Evolution Robotics, VIA Technologies, Robotics Foundry and
Others Sponsor First Robotics Conference to Focus on Commercialization
of Emerging Robotics Markets [PRWEB Dec 12, 2003]
The Rueckert-Hartman School for Health
Professions, Regis University, Denver,
CO, Announces the Formation of the
Center for Health Care Ethics and
Emerging Technologies
The Rueckert-Hartman School for Health
Professions, Regis University, Denver,
CO, Announces the Formation of the
Center for Health Care Ethics and
Emerging Technologies
06/05/2005 11:58 PMUnder the direction of Dr. Pat Ladewig, Dean, Rueckert-Hartman School
for Health Professions, Regis University established the Center for
Health Care Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Mark Meaney,
Executive Director, stated that the goals of the Center include the
examination of the ethical and social implications of emerging
biotechnologies such as nanobiotechnologies, pharmacogenomics, and
stem cell research. [PRWEB May 22, 2005]
Emerging technology for emerging
enterprises
Emerging technology for emerging
enterprises
02/10/2004 08:10 PMFor example, when going for a meeting, it is now possible to “Google”
the person and company so one is much better prepared. ...
FWB to sell Hard Disk Toolkit, CD-ROM
Toolkit source
FWB to sell Hard Disk Toolkit, CD-ROM
Toolkit source
01/27/2004 04:06 PMFWB Software Inc. announced on Monday
plans to sell the complete source code for its Hard Disk ToolKit,
CD-ROM ToolKit and DriveUp! 98. The company is hoping to sell the
intellectual property to another developer, but restated its
commitment to existing customers and its intention to stay in
business.
802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies
802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies
08/29/2004 03:57 AM [PRWEB Aug 29, 2004]
TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic
TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic
04/07/2005 07:33 AMdBusinessNews.com Apr 7 2005 10:26AM GMT
Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7%
Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7%
02/14/2004 10:52 AMCanadian Press Feb 14 2004 2:11PM GMT
The emerging self
The emerging self
02/18/2004 01:24 PM The postmodern Church. Called
"emerging" or "postmodern" churches, they are
diverse in theology and method, linked loosely by Internet sites, Web
logs, conferences and a growing stack of hip-looking paperbacks.
Some religious
historians believe the churches represent the next wave of evangelical
worship, after the boom in
m
egachurches in the 1980's and 1990's. SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample
SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample
11/16/2003 11:48 PMUse these sample files to create custom reporting forms. You can
create individual and summary status reports using an InfoPath form
library and a SharePoint site. These files include a custom template
that provide customized views of the form library.
More on the emerging two cultures
More on the emerging two cultures
09/04/2004 05:34 PMContinuing on from yesterday's bit on the emerging two cultures of the
internet, it occurs to me that a major shift has happened. Firewalls,
anti-virus, and anti-malware systems aren't for your own protection
anymore, but for everyone else's benefit instead....
Emerging t-shirts
Emerging t-shirts
11/19/2003 02:16 PM
Emergants sells t-shirts with slogans relating to "emerging tech:"
P2P, Open Source and nanotechnology.
Link
Q&A: Plugging into emerging IT
Q&A: Plugging into emerging IT
04/12/2005 05:23 PMWarren Weiss, a managing partner at Foundation Capital, talks about
investments the venture capital firm has made in energy management
technology companies.
Ungilded, Emerging
Ungilded, Emerging
06/27/2004 01:39 AMHerewith two lilies and an emerging hydrangea. The latter, in
particular, deserves a visit...
Next Generation Markets Emerging
Next Generation Markets Emerging
09/01/2004 12:27 AMTechnology For Finance Sep 1 2004 4:22AM GMT
Emerging Trends survey
Emerging Trends survey
01/23/2003 02:47 AMCNET Jan 23 2003 1:24AM ET
New Leaders Are Emerging for Al Qaeda
New Leaders Are Emerging for Al Qaeda
08/09/2004 09:48 PMInvestigators are beginning to identify a new generation of operatives
who are filling the vacuum created when leaders were killed or
captured.
The emerging two cultures of the
internet
The emerging two cultures of the
internet
09/03/2004 08:29 AMIt's the end of the summer, more or less, and like last year, I've
been on an unsubscription frenzy. I have a lot of work to do in the
next few months: keeping up to date with the subjects I...
Five emerging Java development trends
Five emerging Java development trends
06/06/2002 06:00 AMCNET Jun 5 2002 10:13PM ET
Internet emerging as political force
Internet emerging as political force
01/22/2004 02:49 AMSiliconValley.com Jan 21 2004 11:44AM GMT
Microsoft's Urge for Emerging Business
Microsoft's Urge for Emerging Business
01/03/2005 07:43 AMYou'd expect Microsoft to keep a spotlight on its big moneymakers
Windows, Office and Servers -- after all, they do generate more than
80% of the company's sales. But the software giant also is busy
readying its so-called emerging-business units for their close-up. For
two of the four, MSN and Home and Entertainment, which represent 15%
of the company's trailing 12-month sales, the future is nigh, say
analysts. Microsoft is pumping substantial sums and energy into those
often-neglected units, hoping the investment will drive future growth.
Microsoft to emerging markets: We've got
a deal for you
Microsoft to emerging markets: We've got
a deal for you
06/06/2004 02:10 PMSan Francisco Chronicle Jun 6 2004 5:53PM GMT
HELLO BUZZFON ! The Emerging of the New
VoIp Solution
HELLO BUZZFON ! The Emerging of the New
VoIp Solution
08/19/2004 02:37 AMA small but emerging IP telephony company, Bonusfon, answers to the
clamor of the market today by launching, BuzzfonP2P, a free, compact
and convenient soft phone that makes clear pc to pc calls possible
without the choppiness, echoes or the high static sounds, just crystal
clear voice even in low bandwidth environments. [PRWEB Aug 19, 2004]
Global Crossing Emerging From Bankruptcy
Global Crossing Emerging From Bankruptcy
12/10/2003 02:15 AMAP via Daily Press Dec 10 2003 0:51AM ET
New Generation of Leaders Is Emerging
for Al Qaeda
New Generation of Leaders Is Emerging
for Al Qaeda
08/09/2004 11:43 PMThe findings create a far more complex picture of Al Qaeda's status
than President Bush presents on the campaign trail.
Osaka Emerging as Robot City
Osaka Emerging as Robot City
05/02/2004 10:19 PMA new Straits
Times article says there are 154 firms in Osaka, Japan with
robotics-related patents and many more working on robotics technology.
The city has become the center of robot technology in Japan and
possibly
the world. Japan expects to be the world leader in the production of
next-generations robots, a market projected to be $46 billion by 2010.
Osaka is also hosting a RoboCup competition
this month.
Quake's economic costs emerging
Quake's economic costs emerging
12/28/2004 09:35 AMThe huge scale of the Asian quake disaster is making it difficult to
assess the economic impact, the World Bank says.
"Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya,
Baby?"
"Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya,
Baby?"
03/14/2003 03:47 PM'FairPlay' Emerging As Ironic Name For
DRM System
'FairPlay' Emerging As Ironic Name For
DRM System
07/29/2004 03:26 PMReal Networks announced<
/a> a couple of days ago that they had 'figured out' Apple's FairPlay
DRM technology, and that future versions of RealPlayer would include
'Harmony', a technology to allow songs purchased from Real.com to be
played on the iPod.
This naturally got Apple's attention, and their lawyers arched
their backs and hissed at Real today in response.
We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics
and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod(R), and we are
investigating the implications of
their actions under the DMCA and other laws. We strongly caution Real
and
their customers that when we update our iPod software from time to
time it is
highly likely that Real's Harmony technology will cease to work with
current
and future iPods.
It seems that if Harmony truly does what Real says, and encodes
files in a way that emulates FairPlay, Apple will have an awfully hard
time coming out with an update that breaks Harmony but not iTunes.
They would essentially have to release a new iTunes with a modified
DRM scheme, then upgrade the firmware of the iPod when it plugged in.
But that means that the iPod would not work with older versions of
iTunes, perhaps on other computers. It would also mean that the songs
on the iPod would need to be transcoded to the new DRM, which is an
awfully long process on 40GB of music, even with FireWire. The
customer inconvenience and backlash would be intense, especially from
a product that's always "just worked".
I think they'd take a lesser hit from just letting Real continue,
given that RealPlayers' music sales system is pretty
widely vilified.
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NEC launches IP-ready Aspila Ex
NEC launches IP-ready Aspila Ex
04/14/2004 03:55 PMComputerworld Singapore Apr 14 2004 7:25PM GMT
Freelance Security Announces New Design,
New Features and 'Certified Consultant'
Program for Its Unique Private
Investigator Comparison Service
Freelance Security Announces New Design,
New Features and 'Certified Consultant'
Program for Its Unique Private
Investigator Comparison Service
04/06/2005 11:52 AMFreelance Security, the online market place for private investigation
and detective services at www.freelancesecurity.com, today officially
launched a number of new features [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]
REVIEW: New ITunes Boosts Features
REVIEW: New ITunes Boosts Features
05/05/2004 09:21 PMAP via Newsday May 6 2004 1:23AM GMT
REVIEW: New ITunes Boosts Features (AP)
REVIEW: New ITunes Boosts Features (AP)
05/05/2004 08:01 PMAP - A year after Apple Computer Inc. proved that commercial music
downloads from the Internet can be both convenient and legal, its
pioneering iTunes software has undergone a revision that offers a
flurry of advances — but takes one step backward.
Software review: Features of phpBB
discussion server
Software review: Features of phpBB
discussion server
12/04/2003 02:42 AMCNET Dec 4 2003 1:50AM ET
iRobot
iRobot
02/10/2004 02:48 PMHelen Greiner, CEO of iRobot, which is making robots subsurvient to
us. X, Y, and Z...and its a Robot! Technology: Navigation (coverage
algorythms, wall following, edge detection), Cleaning (edge cleaning,
transition, low power) and Agressive IP protection. Had to innovate...
PRODUCT REVIEW: Google mail's features
outweigh privacy concerns
PRODUCT REVIEW: Google mail's features
outweigh privacy concerns
06/02/2004 06:25 PMAP via The Ledger Jun 2 2004 10:18PM GMT
[etech] iRobot
[etech] iRobot
02/10/2004 02:48 PM Helen Greiner, iRobot president and cofounder, is giving a
commercial. She shows an ad. She tells us her company is hot. She
tells us that her company's robotic vacuums (Roombas) pick up more
dirt than conventional vacuums and cost less than the competitors. The
only topic of technical interest she touches on is how Roombas escape
from tricky areas of houses. In her demo of the vacuum, she actually
sprinkles crumbs on the floor, like every door-to-door vacuum sales
person in history. Oy veh. Vacuum robots are just the tip of the
iceberg, she says. [Let's hope so.] The...
Live from ETech: iRobot...
Live from ETech: iRobot...
02/10/2004 02:53 PMFor the most part the ETCon keynotes are pretty much high-concept
fluff. They're fundamentally high-profile, high-glamour bits of
hardcore tech that (often) are completely outside the practical
experience of the so-called Alpha geeks that attend these events. But
they have their value - they're designed, I imagine, to be more
brain-openers than brain-developers, they're there to extent the
aspirations, intentions and creativity of the people who attend the
event rather than to be of direct use to them. Nonetheless if you're
not blown away by the technology or awed by the future tech on
display, they can seem like more of a waste of time. Bring on the
stuff I can actually use...
Last year the troubling session of this kind was from K. Eric
Drexler on Nanotechnology, which most people had already read about in
great length but there wasn't a lot of apparent movement upon. The
geeks in the room were interested in the theory but wanted results or
something they could participate in. Intrigue fought with frustration
and in the end - I think - frustration won. This year that balance was
never more in evidence in the second keynote of the morning: Ro
bots: Saving Time, Money and Lives.
Helen Greiner from iRobot
Corporation came on stage and seemed surprisingly nervous. She
started talking about the Roomba
automatic robotic hoover and did so at considerable length. The
immediate interest ("I want one") faded quite rapidly as people
gradually tired of the technological challenges of sensing walls,
picking up dust and getting in close to the walls. Watching something
of technological interest but distinct from the activities of most of
the people in the room just seemed to gradually cease being that
fascinating. But all that changed when she moved onto the military
applications and particularly the
Packbot [See the
brochure].
The first reaction to the Packbots is fascination and a certain
amount of awe. Comments like "I've seen this movie!" and "I want one"
mix with awed responses to the robustness of the devices concerned. A
video is shown where a Packbot is thrown through a window, lands with
a thump, bounces a bit, rights itself, looks around and wanders off.
One zooms up a staircase. One falls from a second story window and
survives intact. Murmurs of delight from the audience at the new toy
on offer reverberate through the room.
But gradually the mood changes and anxieties start to appear.
Questions about the applicability and potential uses of the technology
start to collide with the natural utopianism of the geek audience.
What will these robots be used for? Who will control them?
Where are the controls? It's not immediately clear exactly where the
anxiety is coming from - we all appreciate that weapons have to be
built, that there is a need for the armed forces. But there seems to
be something different about using robotics. Thinking about it I come
to the conclusion that maybe it's about a sense of automated killing -
an absence of human presence that makes the whole thing resonate with
the increasingly mechanised processes of death that echoed through the
last century. Is keeping people further out of the equation actually a
good idea? Does it discourage or encourage conflict if your
side can eradicate another country without suffering any losses at
all? Those human horrors of shell-shock and war-weariness - the
insanity caused by human-upon-human violence suddenly seem to me
almost preferable options - deterrents to conflict designed to stop us
arbitrarily exterminating people and going to war.
I'm not going to judge the people involved - I don't have that
right. We all know that warfare and the technologies of warfare must
evolve and adapt. The arms race still exists, and will continue to do
so as long as state feels under threat from other states or from
terror-attacks. It's just that I didn't expect such an early
brain-opening session to ring such alarm bells or to give me such
concern for the future... On occasion, this country I'm visiting feels
like it believes itself to be under seige - like some kind of
gated-community surrounded by paramilitary, robotic guards...
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iRobot Introduces the Scooba
iRobot Introduces the Scooba
06/05/2005 11:13 PMThe Scooba
does for mopping the floor what the Roomba
did for vacuuming. Or that's what iRobot hopes according to recent CNN
Money and PC
Magazine articles. The best quote is from the CNN article which
says the Scooba
"sucks up the excess water and stores it to be
dumped
later using artificial intelligence". Wow, I would have thought
they'd use a vacuum or a pump of some kind to suck up water but
apparently AI does the job just
as well. For the real technical details on the Scooba visit the iRobot
Scooba
Preview page.
Interview with Helen Greiner of iRobot
Interview with Helen Greiner of iRobot
08/03/2004 07:42 PMPhillip Torrone sent us a link to his recent interview
with Helen Greiner, the chairman and cofounder of iRobot Corporation.
The article includes photos of the new Roomba Discovery and the
Linux-based PackBot. There's also a cool photo of the debris
remaining from PackBot #129, which was killed in action in Iraq
earlier this year while on a bomb disposal mission. Helen's prediction
is that we are 100 years from seeing general purpose humanoid robots.
Less intelligent, task-specific robots, on the other hand, are here
today and will continue to improve rapidly.
iRobot Co-Founder's Perseverance Now
Pays Off
iRobot Co-Founder's Perseverance Now
Pays Off
06/05/2005 11:37 PM“Watching the original “Star Wars” movie as a
mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday
creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2. After enduring plenty of lean
years chasing that elusive vision as a co-founder of iRobot Corp.,
Greiner can now boast a product that whirs and chirps much like the
character she to this day calls her “personal hero.” The
Roomba vacuum cleaner may be incapable of fixing an X-wing fighter
like Luke…
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'iRobot Co-Founder’s Perseverance Now Pays Off'
Interview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle
Interview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle
05/09/2004 03:43 PMBusinessWeek online has posted an intereview
with iRobot CEO Colin Angle. Lots of talk
about the Roomba and why it
succeeded where so many other robot vaccuum cleaners have (and are)
failing. The reason? Price. The Roomba sells for $200 while most
competing robot vacuums are $1500+. Angle talks about the problems of
convincing robot designers to consider component costs and
manufacturing
costs when designing a robot. There's also some discussion about the
US
falling behind in robots for elder-care and Angle offers some hints
about household robots iRobot is working on that could "make
housework a choice".
iRobot Cofounder Helen Greiner
Interviewed
iRobot Cofounder Helen Greiner
Interviewed
08/02/2004 03:32 PMiRobot Secures Funding For Military
Robot
iRobot Secures Funding For Military
Robot
04/13/2004 08:46 AMJOEL JOHNSON -- iRobot, the company who sells the Roomba robotic
vacuum cleaner to finance their darker, more nefarious aims, has
secured a military contract worth around $32 million to build a dark,
nefarious remote-control robot for the U.S. Army. The Small Unmanned
Ground Vehicle (SUGV, or suuuh-gaaaah-vuh) isn't a...
Is Hacking Ethical
Is Hacking Ethical
05/13/2004 09:40 AMEthical Wi-Fi Borrowing
Ethical Wi-Fi Borrowing
02/10/2004 02:40 AMThe Ethicist endorses borrowing a neighbor's Wi-Fi signal: In a fairly
one-sided debate of the issues, the mention of Time-Warner's
Roadrunner threat letters to purposeful Wi-Fi sharers aside, The New
York Times's columnist Randy Cohen says that unless you inconvenience
the unintentional service provider you're borrowing from, you're not
going to ethical heck. His summary of Time-Warner's issue is specious,
though. The company argues, in effect, that while you may have a glass
of water at a neighbor's, you may not run a pipe from his place to
yours. Actually, because the service is unmetered, it's more like
saying, we're providing you unlimited water for personal use, and
guests are okay, but you can't run a pipe to a neighbor's house.
(Cohen quotes Mike Godwin, the formulator of Godwin's Law, which is
infallibly accurate.) (I like the sound of "unintentional provider."
I've been trying to find a term to cover the difference between
community wireless nodes run by individuals who aren't necessarily
bound to keep them running and community wireless nodes and other free
nodes that are designed and "advertised" as available all the time. I
was thinking purposely persistent provider, but perhaps the
distinction is "unintentional provider" and "intentional provider.")
[Nods to Cory D. for prompting this digression.]...
Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron
Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron
06/27/2004 01:13 PMWired News Jun 27 2004 5:22PM GMT
Ethical Webl0gging Part One
Ethical Webl0gging Part One
03/13/2003 10:16 AMUpdate: Wednesday March 5 - The text of this post has been
slightly edited and adjusted in an attempt to tighten up and clarify
my argument. I believe that my position is essentially the same, but
you are advised that some of the comments that follow this post were
responses to an earlier version.
With Blogger's acquisition by Google, the weblog space has changed
more fundamentally than I think any of us had previously realised. The
main impact of that acquisition is not faster servers or a better
weblog infrastructure, it's that marketing and public relations firms - always more brand-conscious than
perhaps they should be - have noticed Google turn our way, and
(carefully following the integrity-based brand's line-of-sight) have
finally noticed us... "What is this new grassroots phenomena?" they
seem to be asking - as if the press hadn't written about almost
nothing else on the web for the last three years, "... and how can we
get it promoting Dr Pepper?"
First things first - why should they care? They should care because
there are hundreds of thousands of weblogs out there - and they're all
connected to each another, spreading information and ideas around the
web at tremendous speeds. The bums-on-seats factor is huge - get
something on Metafilter and
you can guarantee thousands of views. Get it on b3ta, tens of thousands. Get it on Slashdot, hundreds of thousands.
And that's not including the impact of the thousands of personal
sites. Nor does it include the people who read those sites, pick up
links and e-mail them to their friends, to their bosses, girlfriends
and mums. Weblogs are becoming the natural meme ecology - almost as
good at spreading ideas as e-mail but with one particular advantage
for marketeers - their sole raison d'etre is to point people at other
web pages. They are almost inherently a tool for rating and promotion.
They are public opinion made manifest. In fact the only mystery is
that marketers haven't been trying to exploit them before...
Doc Searls has argued that this incursion by marketeers will be
routed around - like so much censorship or damage - by the distributed
nature of weblogging. I'm less convinced, and the reason I'm not
convinced is that to a lesser - and mostly unacknowledged - extent,
weblogs have already had their integrity 'corrupted' - we're already
advertising things for companies in return for money. The most common
and widespread form of integrity-reducing advertising we are
undertaking are Amazon referrals. I'm not taking a high-ground here -
I often place them on my site when I've bought something that I
thought was particularly good, or wanted to reward an artist I like.
We don't tend to think of them as interfering with our
credibility or compromising our integrity - but we make more money if
we write in a way that puts more Amazon links into our sites, and we
make money if those links are recommendations....
The 'Project Blogger' approach is a simple and effective one - you
make webloggers (members of the public) feel important and special as
'in the know' opinion formers. You ask for nothing in return because
that could be perceived as pressure. Inevitably this will be something
that people sign up to believing that there's no price to pay. Except
they've been given expensive and cool things by a marketing
organisation - so there's always the pressure of a threatened
withdrawal. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and you pay with
the soul of your site - the place you've carved out as a place of
personal expression becomes yet another platform to sell rich
teenagers Nike shoes...
There's a really good article about weblogs as marketing devices
over at chronotope
at the moment which I think drags a lot of the issues into the
light of day. There does seem to be a perceptual difference between
the analysis of weblogs from outside and attempts to manipulate them
or direct them through advertising or promotional approaches. The
people behind this campaigning strategy honestly cannot seem to see
how their work might deform or debase the integrity of individual
sites, and I suppose we couldn't expect them too. But this does seem
to me to be the crux of the issue - that as soon as advertising enters
the space of personal publishing, integrity becomes questionable - the
particular authenticity of weblogs and diarist content becomes under
threat.
So now that the marketeers and public relations people have turned
towards us - what are we to do about it? The idea that weblogging
would need any kind of united sense of ethics hasn't previously been
very palatable to people, but I think that's changing - Nick Denton
has made some very sensible comments on Blogger
Freebies that try to clarify what an individual's responsibilities
might be considered to be and he in turn links to Mitch
Ratcliffe's Ethics and Blogging and Rebecca Blood's piece on Weblog ethics. In turn Rebecca mentions Dave Winer's position from quite a while ago. There's a
resurgence of interest in the rights and responsibilities of the
'good' weblogger, which I think should now probably be opened up for
debate and discussed at greater length.
So what do you think? What are the particular ethics of writing a
weblog? Is it possible to preserve your integrity while taking
advertising?
'UK must revive ethical policy'
'UK must revive ethical policy'
04/21/2004 07:57 PMBritain needs a campaign to revive its "ethical" foreign policy after
the blow to its credibility caused by the Iraq war, says a think tank.
Ethical hacking set for MP debate
Ethical hacking set for MP debate
04/27/2004 06:10 AMSilicon.com Apr 27 2004 9:07AM GMT
"Ethical Philosophy Selector"
"Ethical Philosophy Selector"
07/16/2004 03:18 PMThe Pros & Cons of Ethical Hacking
The Pros & Cons of Ethical Hacking
01/23/2004 06:31 PMInternet.com Jan 23 2004 10:16PM GMT
UK Thinking About Protecting Ethical
Hackers
UK Thinking About Protecting Ethical
Hackers
04/26/2004 02:38 PMThere have been plenty of problems with laws that haven't even tried
to distinguish between various types of computer break-ins. If
someone is just trying to point out a vulnerability, do they deserve
the same type of punishment as someone who breaks in, takes data and
trashes a system? Some more tech savvy politicians in the UK are even
considering
protecting so-called "benign" hacking in an update on their
computer misuse laws. Of course, the definition of "benign" is going
to be problematic. In the article, for example, one politician
suggests it should be legal to hack around censorship laws by the
government to let users access websites the government has blocked.
That seems particularly confusing: the government would allow people
to hack around a law they, themselves, had passed?
The first ethical questions of robotics
in society are upon us.
The first ethical questions of robotics
in society are upon us.
06/22/2004 09:04 AMAs machines and computers grow more intelligent, as a society we must
consider their place within our societal code of ethics. For
awhile now, these questions have been regarded by many to be so far
away that to seriously worry about them now is a waste of breath and
time. I intend to show that not only are serious issues of ethics
regarding robots and artificial intelligence coming very soon to us,
in some aspects, they already are here.
Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron (Reuters)
Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron (Reuters)
06/26/2004 04:12 PMReuters - Sporting long sideburns, a bushy
goatee and black baseball cap, instructor Ralph Echemendia has
a class of 15 buttoned-down corporate, academic and military
leaders spellbound. The lesson: hacking.
New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of
Robotics
New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of
Robotics
08/22/2004 07:22 PMTucows's ethical expired domain auction
Tucows's ethical expired domain auction
09/08/2004 08:06 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Tucows is starting a service to auction off expired domain names, but
with an escape hatch to ensure that the former holders of the expired
domains don't get scr0d.
Yet, Tucows plans to protect the previous registrant's existing rights
because even if a URL enters the auction, the old registrant still has
a window of opportunity to retain the name under the system. Noss said
Tucows plans to "hold the name in escrow for another 30 days" on top
of a period of "anywhere from one to 45 days" that a former registrant
has to reclaim their domain name after expiry, depending on which
registrar they're dealing with.
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FDA considers ethical concerns of animal
cloning
FDA considers ethical concerns of animal
cloning
11/01/2003 03:02 AMUSA Today Nov 1 2003 2:31AM ET
Open source to draw up ethical standards
Open source to draw up ethical standards
04/01/2005 12:17 PMComputer Weekly Apr 1 2005 3:17PM GMT
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