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General

Nua Internet Surveys  "Nua Internet Surveys is the authoritative source online for information on Internet demographics and trends. Its information reaches 180,000 people worldwide every week and has been translated into Russian, German, Greek, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew and Spanish. Nua Internet Surveys is a database containing over three years of information gathered and collated by Nua. "

How Much Information?  "This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest."

"The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 1018 bytes. Printed documents of all kinds comprise only .003% of the total. Magnetic storage is by far the largest medium for storing information and is the most rapidly growing, with shipped hard drive capacity doubling every year. Magnetic storage is rapidly becoming the universal medium for information storage."  (Note:  Report published in 2000 based on 1999-2000 data.)

Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond  is a publication of the National Academy of Sciences.(1994)

Smart TV & Sound Magazine 

GW Forecast  "The GW Forecast fills this need by bringing experts together online to forecast forthcoming breakthroughs and strategically plan for their impact. It can be thought of as a "virtual think-tank" that conducts its work electronically. The Forecast pools the collective knowledge of the world's best authorities, and then automatically distributes the most accurate possible forecasts based on this data to you -- anywhere in the world, on any prominent emerging technology or strategic issue, in real time."

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Commentary

The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing -Technology Journal  by Jeffrey R. Harrow,
Senior Consulting Engineer, Corporate Strategy & Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation, provides "Insight, analysis and commentary on contemporary computing and the technologies that drive it ...    ".

The Harrow Group  (This is the new site for Jeffrey R. Harrow who authored the "Rapidly Changing Face of Computing" listed above.)

Gilder.com   Articles and commentary on our technological future by a widely read author.

Langa.Com! "You've found the web home of computer author, editor, analyst and consultant Fred Langa. You may know me from my previous work as VP/Editorial Director at WINDOWS Magazine, or as Editor in Chief of Byte Magazine, or from various appearances at trade shows and on TV and radio. "   This site is a good example of how an expert can develop a Web based business that provides useful information to the Web community.

rheingold's brainstorms Articles and comments on the impact of technology on society.

The O'Reilly Network  "is the essential portal for developers interested in open and emerging technologies, including new platforms, programming languages, and operating systems. Just like O'Reilly & Associates' books, this hub site provides in-depth technical information, clearly and consistently, for expert developers. Beyond that, it creates a forum for the O'Reilly developer community, giving them the chance to interact both with each other and independent affiliate sites. A primary aim is to help developers cross over into new technical communities, which is essential for their professional development and personal satisfaction."

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EE Times Online  - the global technology site for engineers and technical management 

Technology Review - MIT's Magazine of Innovation.  "Our MISSION is to identify and analyze the process of innovation. Through innovation, humanity is constantly upgrading its tools and techniques and inventing new ones.    .....Innovation is the driving force behind the major transformation we are witnessing today in society, business, and technology."   This on-line version provides samples of articles from previous issues.

Expect rapid, pervasive innovation in 21st century (Purdue News, 12/3/99) "Engineers and scientists envision super-efficient cars, "smart" offices equipped with myriad wireless sensors, a new class of miniature devices that dramatically speed up medical and biological testing, and electronic gear that runs for days on a single charge. Agricultural researchers hope to spawn a novel industry using sugars from paper and other wastes to make a variety of products. More compact and versatile robots will enter the work force. And artificial intelligence may help to improve the commercial power grid, reducing the frequency of brownouts."

Scientific American: Feature Article: The Unexpected Science to Come: December 1999   "Both quantum mechanics and the structure of DNA have enlarged our understanding of the world to a degree that their originators did not and could not have foretold. There is no way of telling which small stone overturned in the next 50 years will lead to a whole new world of science. The best that one can do is make a catalogue of our present ignorance--of which there is a great deal--and then extrapolate into the future current trends in research."

Project Cool [Future Focus]  "Future Focus is a magazine. Sort of. It's about writing with style and point of view. It's about the web, and people, and technology, and the world that all of them share. It's observations about both daily bits and the bigger changes afoot. In short Future Focus is about all of us and the world we're building."

HotWired!  contains news and tutorials on the latest developments in technology and Web site development.

Wired Magazine  News and articles on the evolving digital culture.

 

CNET.com - 10 technologies that will take over "We begin our countdown with technologies that have already started to take over, looking closely at their ramifications. But keep clicking to get to the more fantastical developments, those whose impacts won't be felt for years, or even decades, but that you should take seriously now, whether you're a consumer, an investor, or a curious futurist." (7/1/98)

PC Magazine Online: Trends   has articles on the latest trends in computer and network technology.

Future Technology (June 22, 1999)"The new millennium is upon us, and with it comes an exciting computing future that we can only begin to imagine today. In this ten-part special report, PC Magazine’s experts identify and explain the trends that will most significantly affect the course of 21st-century computing. Plus: try out some future technologies live on the Web today."

The Digital Future PC World, January, 2000. "How will the next advances in computing affect your life and work? The horizon is crowded with possibilities, from polymorphic viruses to wireless everything. Here's what's in store--we think."

A Think-Tank Vision: More Comfortable Connectivity  (9/10/99)   "According to Giga Group, the mobile market is growing faster than the desktop and notebook PC markets. Sales of handheld devices are expected to outstrip sales of notebook PCs by 2001. Some analysts predict that by 2003 half the devices connected to the Internet will not be PCs."

TechWeb  is an online technology news site.

TechMall - The Tech News And Information Resource

Where the Future May Take Us   by Arun Netravali,  President, Bell Labs  (RealAudio files)

Forbes ASAP

Scenarios -The art of preparing for an uncertain future  by Peter Schwartz, Red Herring, December, 1999.

"I use three basic scenarios in evaluating technology-based industries. These scenarios are the result of years of observing how such industries work, the forces that shape them, and the dynamics of change in all of them."  

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Sites

The Media Laboratory: New and Noteworthy  gives a list of links to projects developed in the Media Laboratory at MIT.

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

IBM Research

AT&T Labs Research

Advanced Network & Services, Inc. "The goal of Advanced Network & Services is to advance education by accelerating the use of computer network applications and technology ..."

Zeno Research Group - Cornell University  

The Knowledge Media Institute " 'Knowledge Media' encompasses a broad programme of research into new learner-centred technologies, including Internet-enhanced collaboration media, multimedia environments for disabled learners, intelligent agents, organisational memories, digital documents, scientific visualisation and simulation tools, informal and formal representations of knowledge - in short, innovative approaches to sharing, accessing, and understanding knowledge. The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a purpose-built showcase lab housing some forty researchers, technologists and designers. KMi creates and studies near-term future technologies for the ultimate benefit of Open University students, staff, industrial sponsors, and a mixture of local and global learning communities. "

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition   "Created in 1994, the CNBC is dedicated to the study of the neural basis of cognitive processes, including learning and memory, language and thought, perception, attention, and planning. Studies of the neural basis of normal adult cognition, cognitive development, and disorders of cognition all fall within the purview of the CNBC. In addition, the CNBC promotes the application of the results of the study of the neural basis of cognition to artificial intelligence, technology, and medicine. The CNBC will synthesize the disciplines of basic and clinical neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computer science, combining neurobiological, behavioral, computational and brain imaging methods."

The Brain Project 

"The objectives of The Brain Project are to:
-- communicate scientific information about the human brain to the public
-- convey the excitement and importance of contemporary brain research
-- enhance the educational process utilizing advanced group-interactive technology
-- improve educational evaluation techniques utilizing on-line information gathering
-- broaden distribution through portable presentation and interactive technology
-- engage the target audience in the presentation development.
-- further interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts, sciences and humanities."

Center for Interdisplinary Research on Constructive Learning Environments (CIRCLE)  "CIRCLE's mission is to determine why highly effective forms of instruction, such as human one-on-one tutoring, work so well, and to develop computer-based constructive learning environments that foster equally impressive learning."

Learning Research and Development Center "LRDC is a multidisciplinary research center whose mission is to understand and improve learning by children and adults in the organizational settings in which they live and work: schools, museums and other informal learning environments, and workplaces."

American Association for Artificial Intelligence  "Founded in 1979, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artificial intelligence, improve the teaching and training of AI practitioners, and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance and potential of current AI developments and future directions."

CARTE - Center for Advanced Research on Technology for Education  "The Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE) is concerned with the development, evaluation, and deployment of new technologies for education. CARTE is part of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California."

Multimedia Communications Laboratory    "The Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MCL) at Boston University is investigating issues surrounding the construction of general-purpose distributed multimedia information systems (DMISs). Our research emphasis in this field is the study of time-dependent and continuous media data and their support by storage and communication as typified by on-demand video applications."

NYU Center for Advanced Technology   "The New York University Center for Advanced Technology was founded in 1993 with the goal of accelerating the development and dissemination of multimedia technologies and applications. Designated one of thirteen New York State Centers for Advanced Technology by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, the Center uses its multimedia technology expertise to augment the efforts of companies and faculty, staff, and researchers working in new media."

VT Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Web Site  "The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, directed by Dr. Williges, in the Human Factors Engineering Center is dedicated to research on human factors problems associated with the design of systems involving humans and computers. Some of the research topics that are investigated in the laboratory include the design of human-computer dialogues, on-line computer assistance, training users of computer systems, adaptive human-computer interfaces, sequential experimentation, design and evaluation of speech input/output devices, the development of new methods and procedures for the design of human-computer interfaces, multimedia information presentation and training, designing computer interfaces for users with disabilities, and the design of electronic offices. Research in the laboratory emphasizes the development of models, measures, and techniques which focus on user-centered design of real human-computer software interfaces."

SGI - Reality Center  "Welcome to the world's most advanced, immersive visualization facility for group virtual reality: the SGI Reality Center. We introduced the SGI Reality Center in 1994. Today, hundreds of commercial and government organizations around the world rely on high-performance SGI visualization facilities every day."

Internet2 Home Page  "The Internet2 project, as it is known, is bringing focus, energy and resources to the development of a new family of advanced applications to meet emerging academic requirements in research, teaching and learning."

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium  "The W3C was founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. We are an international industry consortium, jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/LCS] in the United States; the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique [INRIA] in Europe; and the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users; reference code implementations to embody and promote standards; and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology."

Web3D CONSORTIUM

"Background
The Web3D Consortium represents all aspects of 3D technologies on the Internet. Just as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) led to a population explosion on the Internet by implementing a graphical interface, VRML adds the next level of interaction, structured graphics, and extra dimensions (z and time) to the online experience. The applications of Web3D technologies are broad, ranging from prosaic business graphics to entertaining web page graphics, to manufacturing, scientific, entertainment, and broadcast and educational applications, and of course to 3D shared virtual worlds and communities.

Standard
Since its inception in 1994, the Web3D Consortium has promoted open standards instilled with the principle that high quality infrastructures can be built out in the open on level playing fields. This results in faster and better products as well as more interesting and productive market competition based on value, not history or platform dependency. With the ISO Standard VRML97 approved and its evolution to the latest X3D standard, attention is turning to the next generation of Web3D."

TerraServer  " The World's Largest Online Database! Did you ever wonder what your neighborhood looked like from space, or wished you could get an aerial shot of your favorite vacation spot? Welcome to Microsoft® TerraServer, one of the most unique Web sites on the Internet."

Audio, Video, and Synchronized Multimedia  "To make authoring of TV-like multimedia presentations on the Web easier, W3C has designed the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounded "smile"). SMIL is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language allowing to use a text editor to write multimedia presentations with streaming audio and video."

Internet Traffic Report   "The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections."

Media Metrix   "MEDIA METRIX RELEASES THE TOP 50 AT HOME AND AT WORK DIGITAL MEDIA AND WEB AUDIENCE RATINGS FOR JULY 1999"  
                 "The average number of unique pages viewed per month increased nearly 50 percent over the past                     twelve months, from 330 unique pages per visitor in July 1998 to 487 per visitor in July 1999."

StatMarket - The most accurate, real-time source of Internet statistics and user trends  "Mission Statement: StatMarket presents raw data computed from millions of daily Internet visitors to Web sites monitored by WebSideStory's HitBOX Tracker. StatMarket is all about real statistical counts. We don't have a panel. We don't survey. We don't guess. We don't judge. We just count and provide our analysis for free. (Research Methods)"

Avatars98   "Avatars98 will be the first major international conference held inside cyberspace.  In this groundbreaking event, graphical avatar virtual worlds will host thousands of people in a cyberconference complete with  exhibits, speakers, educational and entertainment experiments, art shows and avatar awards, and a debut of new technologies never seen before on the net. At the same time, there will be dozens of physical locations around the planet where people will gather and jack in to this new reality. It all happens on and around November 21st, 1998 (depending on your timezone)."

DigitalSpace Corporation

Great Trango Tower @ quokka.com  "This website allows you to track the progress of The North Face Climbing Team as it struggles to reach the 20,618-ft. (6,286-meter) summit of Grweat Trango Tower in Pakistan.  See videos and still images transmitted right from the wall.  Read the climbers' journals, listen to their audio transmissions, monitor their biometrics, send them e-mail and get updates regularly from Base Camp."

UNC Office of the Future "We introduce ideas, proposed technologies, and initial results for an office of the future that is based on a unified application of computer vision and computer graphics in a system that combines and builds upon the notions of the CAVE(tm), tiled display systems, and image-based modeling. The basic idea is to use real-time computer vision techniques to dynamically extract per-pixel depth and reflectance information for the visible surfaces in the office including walls, furniture, objects, and people, and then to either project images on the surfaces, render images of the surfaces, or interpret changes in the surfaces."

The Future of Work  This is the web site associated with the book, The Future of Work: The Promise of the New Digital Work Society, by Charles Grantham, McGraw-Hill,1999.

International Broadcasting Convention (IBC)  "The International Broadcasting Convention is the world's premier broadcast technology event. The show covers all the key areas of the electronic media business including audio, cable, film, grip, internet, lighting, multimedia, production, post production, radio, satellite and transmission."

September, 2000 Convention

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Bandwidth

Iridium "The world's first handheld global satellite telephone and paging network is here."

Ericsson Mobile Systems - Products - Mobile Systems  "Moving toward a global third-generation system."

Visions of the Future

What is WCDMA?.  Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) – a 3rd-generation mobile services platform ......"From the start, WCDMA has been designed for high-speed data services and, more particularly, internet-based packet-data offering up to 2 Mbps in stationary or office environments, and up to 384 kbps in wide area or mobile environments."

Wireless Internet Access by Metricom & Ricochet   "The current Ricochet service provides wireless Internet access at up to 28.8 kpbs in the greater San Francisco Bay, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas; on corporate campuses; and at select gate areas at eleven major airports throughout the United States.

Metricom is currently testing its new Ricochet2 network which will provide wireless and mobile Internet access at speeds up to 128 kpbs. Deployment of the new, faster service will begin in 1999 and continue throughout the year 2000. Metricom also has corporate gateway products that allow secure remote access to corporate LANs to Ricochet wireless users."

High-Speed Surfing - February 1999 --by Fred Langa, Senior Consulting Editor. "Tired of the World Wide Wait and overhyped technologies that don't deliver? Here's everything you need to know to hit the Web at warp speed."

The Network Frontier: Wireless Technologies And The Imagination by Jeff Lawrence, CTI, June, 1999.

"It is generally understood, however, that data - not voice - will soon be the significant driver for increasing bandwidth. As the demand for data bandwidth eclipses the demand for voice bandwidth within the network, the infrastructure will move towards packet- and cell-based technologies. As a result, the wireless infrastructure is evolving to support not only voice but also high-speed packetized data.

For example, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology uses some of the existing telephony, wireless, and Internet infrastructure to provide high-speed data services to wireless users by allowing data from Internet, frame relay, and X.25 networks to be transported over existing 2G wireless networks. GPRS is an important evolutionary step along the path to supporting broadband voice, data, and video services defined by the third-generation (3G) wireless standards." This article has links to   organizations involved tn the development of  wireless technology.

Bluetooth  The Bluetooth Technology is the result of a cooperation between leaders in the telecommunication and computer industries. We are determined to take the necessary action to make the technology a global standard for wireless connectivity. The technology is an open specification for wireless communication of data and voice.

Wireless Data Forum  "The Wireless Data Forum is a new organization with a new focus. Dedicated to publicizing successful wireless data applications and customer communities, the WDF is composed of network service providers, wireless device and infrastructure equipment manufacturers and vendors, computer software and hardware developers, and information services content providers. New members are actively being recruited from the wireless telecommunications, mobile computing, and Internet industries. The Wireless Data Forum’s leadership is committed to being an industry-building mechanism. The Wireless Data Forum’s work will focus on consensus building and promoting the entire wireless data industry."

Group Rallies Around Wireless Spec  (8/23/99) "The Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) was introduced Monday by a group of vendors dedicated to driving the adoption of the IEEE standard 802.11 High Rate Direct Sequence, which is a wireless network standard that works in the 2.4-GHzradio band and runs at about 11 megabits per second."

Wireless broadband satellites communications networks services high speed access for corporate intranets - Hughes Spaceway Network  "As early as 2002, Spaceway will provide high-speed bandwidth-on-demand satellite communications. With its spot-beam technology and affordable services, Spaceway™ will change the way the world communicates. .....Using a globally deployed system of satellites in conjunction with a ground-based infrastructure, users will transmit and receive video, audio, multimedia and other digital data hundreds of times faster than over conventional phone lines, at uplink rates between 16Kbps to 6Mps. Access to the system is easy and instantaneous through a family of low-cost, easily installed 26-inch (66cm) terminals."

America's digital divide -High-speed Internet services passing by have-nots, by David Lieberman. (10/1199)

"Only about 5% of all buildings in the USA are connected to high-speed fiber rings. And while about 90% of businesses with more than 500 employees have zippy Internet connections - often through T-1 connections - among the 21 million smaller companies "only 5% to 7% have high speed," says Phil Burgess, president of the Center for the New West, a Denver-based think tank."

"What's more, providers that have spent years building their infrastructures "don't come back and fill in" the underserved neighborhoods, says William Lilley, co-founder of InContext. 'They only do a high-end business.' "

"That may be a shrewd financial strategy. But the social impact could be devastating."

openNET Coalition  "The openNET Coalition is dedicated to promoting the rights of all consumers to obtain affordable, high-speed access to the Internet from the provider of their choice. The Coalition believes that competition among Internet service providers over last mile broadband networks will lower prices, spur innovation, and advance the social and economic benefits of the Internet."

"The openNET Coalition consists of over 700 of the nation's leading providers of consumer Internet services."

ADSL Forum   "The ADSL Forum was formed in late 1994 to help telephone companies and their suppliers realize the enormous market potential of ADSL. Our assistance comes in two forms -- technical and marketing. The Forum's marketing programs attempt to uncomplicate ADSL's inherent technical complexity and spread the news. The Forum's public output therefore mixes the tutorial with the promotional."

DSL.com  "This site aims to be one of the most extensive and comprehensive sources of information pertaining
to Digital Subscriber Line Technology. We are still continuing to grow; check back to get all the latest on the burgeoning DSL industry."

DSL Reports  "Dslreports.com, born 24th June 1999 with the purchase of a pc and Linux, out of the frustrating time had trying to arrange a DSL line."

Cable Modem Help  "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Cable Modems"

Getspeed.com, your guide to high speed internet service  By supplying limited information you can determine the type of high speed access available at your location.

3D and the Broadband Myth by Guy Wright, 3D Direct, May 8, 2000.  

"If we take a look at some of the predictions, we find that the experts are divided about how rapidly broadband access is going to grow in the coming years. For example; the Yankee Group predicts that by 2002 there will be 6 million broadband users. Jupiter Communications predicts 11.7 million. NxGen says there should be about 17 million broadband users by 2003. And Forrester Research thinks there will be 22 million. That sounds like, a lot but let's put things into perspective.

According to Nua Internet Surveys, as of January 2000 more than 200 million people were surfing the Web (Canada and the U.S. 112.4 million, Europe 47.15 million, Asia/Pacific 33.61 million, Latin America 5.29 million, Africa 1.72 million, and the Middle East .88 million). Nua predicts that by 2003 those numbers should grow to about 350 million people on the Web. Even taking the most aggressive predictions of 22 million broadband users by 2003, we see that only 6.2 percent will be surfing in broadband style. Even if we assume that Forrester's numbers are for U.S. residents only, and that U.S. Internet growth will increase only 50 percent in the next three years to about 175 million users, that still means more than 87 percent of U.S. Internet surfers will continue dialing up to connect. If, however, the Yankee Group is closer to the target, then only about 3.5 percent of all U.S. surfers will have broadband."

WaveRider  

Internet2 Puts Broadband To The Test  (Internet Week, July 17, 2001) "Music students in Oklahoma are benefiting from the advanced network by having musicians from across the country guest teach. Normally, it would be difficult to get top musicians to go to Oklahoma to instruct a class. But uplinks to the network in places like New York and Miami make it possible. A piece is played by a student, the teacher corrects it, and the student replays it until it's refined. Over an IP network, that requires serious high fidelity, so the classes are using a transmission at roughly 15 Mbps."

Telechasm - Can we get to the future from here? First we have to get telecom out of the Stone Age. by Frank Rose, Wired Magazine (May, 2001)

IPWireless.com

2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband  New York Times (6/10/02)

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Convergence

Play TV  "PlayTV is television for the next century. A century where today's 100 broadcast channels will quickly give way to 100,000 narrowcast channels delivering highly relevant programming to each viewer. Imagine a traditional television network turned upside down and reengineered for the Internet. That network is PlayTV, a new approach that offers compelling original programming to viewers, a medium for advertisers to reach focused audiences, and a way for program producers to touch a worldwide audience. Perhaps most exciting, it is a network based entirely on the core Play technologies that in turn drive Play's products into the future."

Smart TV  This is the online version of Smart TV magazine.

WebTV 

Developer.webtv.net  "-designing for television, authoring for Web TV, interactive television, developers forum"

Microsoft Interactive TV  "Interactive TV offers many exciting opportunities and viewer choices. Microsoft believes that it should be easy and affordable to produce and broadcast interactive TV and other digital TV services. Browse through our site and learn what these new technologies mean for viewers, TV professionals, and advertisers. Discover the tools and techniques you need to get started today."

WebSurfer  "WebSurfer Inc. offers a total solution within the convergence industry. WebSurfer's core competencies are the development and integration of client and server-side software. These technologies combined with WebSurfer's State-of-the-Art reference design, provide out of the box solutions to a global clientele."

"As a leader in the convergence arena, WebSurfer partners with OEM (Consumer Electronic, Personal Computer, Cable & Satellite hardware manufacturers), Connectivity Providers (ISP, Telco & Cable Operators) and Content Providers to facilitate the delivery of flexible, competitive and value oriented set-top solutions."

Wink Communications "The two most popular communications products of all time are the television and telephone. Wink Communications is enhancing the way people use these devices, and the way that operators, manufacturers and advertisers leverage them - by adding interactive capabilities at virtually no additional cost.

For example, Wink allows viewers to personalize TV by offering them instant access to supplemental information, convenient one-button ordering and the ability to play along with shows — all as part of regular TV broadcasting. Wink enhances the functions available to phones and pagers, to provide the consumer with enhanced voice and information services."

Advanced TV Enhancement

"The ATVEF Founders are comprised of leaders in four key industry segments:

These founding companies are developing a specification and directing ongoing marketing activities to accelerate the development of HTML-based television products and services."

OPIMA   "The Open Platform Initiative for Multimedia Access (OPIMA) has been set up to develop specifications enabling a consumer to obtain a receiver and begin to consume and pay for services, without having prior knowledge of which services would be consumed, in a simple way such as by operating a remote control device. Click here for an explanatory drawing.
The OPIMA platform is targeted at providing value-chain participants the ability to acquire, supply, process and consume multi-media services on a worldwide basis in accordance with the rights associated with these services. OPIMA specifically addresses intellectual property management and protection.

OPIMA operates in the Industry Technical Agreement (ITA) program of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) based on a Charter."

ZDTV | Television About Computing   "ZDTV is a 24-hour television network about computing, with an integrated website. Our lineup of shows gives viewers the chance to improve their computer knowledge and participate more fully in the Digital Age. Go to our TV show descriptions page and see what each show is about. We are using television to introduce new computer users to the ways that these machines can help them at work and at home."

Replay TV  "ReplayTV™ is simply a set-top box that records television programming to a hard disk. But when this sophisticated digital recorder is combined with an intelligent programming service, the result is revolutionary. Suddenly your TV is capable of things you never thought possible."

Microsoft Announces X-Box  (3/9/00)  'And what of continued Microsoft support for the existing PC? "It's important to know that the X-Box complements the PC, and we see the X-Box in the living room," said Gates. "The PC will continue to grow in the other parts of the house and we're going to make sure that developers can target both of these products very easily." '

Open TV  "OpenTV is, quite simply, an entirely new way of using the most influential invention of the 20th century: the television. You don't just watch OpenTV-enhanced programs; you actively participate...without ever leaving the program."

Interactive TV Today  "Topics covered in previous issues include: strategic partnerships, deployments, investments, mergers, governmental regulation, technologies (standards, video-on-demand, enhanced television, individualized television, hypervideo, IP broadband, set-top boxes, operating systems, cable modems, satellite services, software, chips, ecommerce, etc.), and content in and beyond Hollywood."

Kingston Interactive Television  

Spyglass - Inside Interactive TV

Interactive TV: The $20 billion revolution (2/20/00) "Despite plans to make your television a phone system, home entertainment provider, shopping guide and communication tool, most experts agree neither the PC nor the TV are likely to replace each other; you just might not be able to tell them apart. Wink's Wilderotter compared the situation to the various kinds of ovens that can be found in a kitchen. Toasters, convection ovens and microwaves all perform basically the same function, but each has its own specialty."

ACTV  

HyperTV  "HyperTV is a unique way of combining the excitement of television with the interactivity of the Internet. By using our free, downloadable software, you can automatically receive exclusive web content on your computer that complements the program you're watching on TV."

ZapMedia  "The ZapMediaSMecosystem, developed in-house, consists of the ZapStationTM(Device), ZapMediaSMEngine (Software), ZapAccessSM(Service), and ZapCentral.comSM(Portal).

The four elements of the ZapMedia ecosystem come together to bring an unparalleled, in-control experience to consumers who seek the existing benefits of CDs, DVDs, Radio, and TV combined with the ever-growing storage, bandwidth, accessibility and flexibility of the Internet - at an affordable price. The ZapMedia ecosystem captures all the advantages of broadband while leveraging existing narrowband."

CommVerge   "Some call it pervasive computing. Some call it the convergence of computers, communications, and consumer electronics. Others call it the post-PC era. Whatever buzzword you prefer, it's big. Ahead, our everyday lives will be saturated with dozens—if not hundreds—of interconnected electronic devices that seamlessly serve our information, entertainment, and leisure needs at home, in the car, and at the office.

CommVerge exists for the technical visionaries who are defining and delivering these innovative products, services, and infrastructure. Through its Web site and monthly magazine, CommVerge delivers insight into the rapidly evolving technologies these leaders must master and implement in order to succeed."

broadcast.com "Broadcast.com (Nasdaq: BCST) is the leading aggregator and broadcaster of streaming media programming on the Web. The company has the network infrastructure and expertise to deliver or "stream" hundreds of live and on-demand audio and video programs over the Internet or Intranets to hundreds of thousands of users."

.intertainer.com  "Intertainer is delivered through a high-velocity cable modem connection or a DSL (digital subscriber line) telephone connection directly to your PC. Using a high-speed broadband network, Intertainer delivers movies, music, and other digital content from a centralized video server to your personal computer. Intertainer is not conected to the Internet or the World Wide Web. This isolated network connection improves security while providing higher quality picture, full motion video and CD quality sound."

NeoPoint  "The NeoPoint 1000 is the first feature-rich pocket-friendly, affordable smartphone that provides voice clarity, email, ability to access the Internet and personal information management functions in a simple, easy to use handset.

The phone features a large, 11-line LCD, which can display as many as ten times the number of characters as today's wireless phones. This is pretty remarkable when you consider that this big screen comes in a form factor that measures only 5 ½ inches and weighs 6 pocket-friendly ounces."

ZDNet: PC Computing | Your Next Phone  (12/99) "Wireless phone manufacturers Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, and Qualcomm all plan to release WAP-enabled phones by mid-2000.

Armed with a cleverly designed screen and a WAP microbrowser, your phone will finally rival the desktop PC as a Net access device. Besides letting you browse the Web on the go, WAP phones will support services like e-mail, e-commerce transactions, electronic banking, and even advanced telephony features like call- accept, which lets you decide whether to take an incoming call."

National Convergence Alliance  " The mission of the National Convergence Alliance is to promote convergence technologies and the benefits derived by their use."

Don't Just Sit There. Do Something. by Erick Schoenfeld, eCompany Now, November, 2000  "Today, believe it or not, interactive TV is becoming real. What shape it finally takes depends on what happens among three competing forces."

    - " The first force would simply create an extension of television as we know it."
          (set- top boxes)

    - "The second force -- let's call it the roll-your-own model -- consists of new companies whose products could change television as we know it. TiVo and ReplayTV have created an entirely new electronic box for your TV called a personal video recorder, which is basically a digital VCR that will search through the cable and broadcast universe to find the shows you specify and store them on a hard drive so you can watch whenever you want. You can also pause, reverse, and fast-forward just as with a VCR."

  - "The third force -- the Internet model -- is the plain old Web, which is becoming less and less plain every day. As bandwidth increases, the Internet could eventually make all of the television industry's interactive efforts irrelevant."

NetOnCourse  "MI-Live™ (Mass Interaction-Live) from NetOnCourse provides corporate communicators and broadcasters with a new communications channel that enables tens of thousands of participants to interact in real-time, in natural language, without the ill effects of ‘information overload’.  MI-Live™ is more than just a global chat; it is an entirely new concept in intelligent mass interaction that allows open and meaningful dialogue in natural language on a truly massive scale."

PacketVideo "Through streaming technology and content programming relationships, PacketVideo is creating solutions today that will give the wireless world the richness of sight, sound, animation, and moving pictures."

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Appliances

Online Anywhere   "Online Anywhere is a leading provider of Web delivery solutions for information appliances. Online Anywhere's patented FlashMap™ content reformatting technology provides the industry's only Author Once, View Anywhere™ solution, enabling content providers to rapidly reformat and deliver their content to a variety of information appliances, including Web-connected TVs, PDAs, wireless devices (pagers, data phones), and voice-only products."

i-opener by netpliance  "For new Internet users, i-opener is the easiest way to enjoy email and the Internet because i-opener is not a computer and there is no setup. Just plug it in, turn it on, and the i-opener is online - instantly. "

Vestel USA - Products  "Vestel Information Appliances instantly bring you the power, excitement and convenience of the Internet…

Internet Appliances and PDA Gadgets: Gadgetman's Day Two Report From CES by Evan Koblentz  (1/21/00) "To digress for a moment: In one of the interviews I conducted, we eventually came to the question of how to define an Internet appliance. I see three criteria: the device must be stand-alone (not a set-top box); it must be purpose-built (not a next-gen mobile telephone or a dumbed-down PC); and it must have a Web browser (not an e-mail-only device)."  This article contains a table (updated 2/4/00) of URLs to Internet appliance manufactures.

Internet Appliances To Surpass PCs In 2002  (02/07/00, 7:49 a.m. ET),by Reuters

"According to IDC, it includes the shipments of Internet gaming consoles (such as the Sega's Dreamcast), Internet accessible TVs (like Microsoft's WebTV Networks), Internet smart handheld devices (such as 3Com's Palm VII), Web terminals, e-mail terminals and screenphones."

ibutton.com  "The iButton is ideal for any application where information needs to travel with a person or object.Mud PhotoAffixed to a badge, key fob, watch, or ring, an iButton can grant its owner access to a building, a PC, a piece of equipment, or a vehicle. Attached to a work tote, it can measure a variety of processes to improve efficiency, such as manufacturing, delivery, and maintenance. Some versions of the iButton can be used to store cash for small transactions, such as transit systems, parking lots, and vending machines. The iButton can also be used as an electronic asset tag to store information needed to keep track of valuable capital equipment."

 

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Hardware

Streamaster Development Environment  "The Streamaster™ Development Environment is intended for interactive multimedia applications that require high performance Graphics, Audio, Animation, and Full Motion Video. Our environment can be used for a multitude of applications ranging from a basic 3D-Games player to true convergence multimedia products. This product includes DVD, DVD Games, a variety of Network Interface Modules like ATM, Firewire, Cable, Satellite, Video Conferencing, and a host of new applications that have not yet been developed

Microvision-Technology  "Virtual Retinal Display™ Unlike conventional display technologies (cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal and other flat panel displays) which must create images on an intermediary screen before they can be viewed, VRD technology takes advantage of the human visual system to project electronic information on the eye without the use of a screen of any kind. The device conveys the image by scanning an electronically encoded beam of light through the pupil to the retina, stimulating the receptors on the back of the eye. The user has the impression of viewing a high quality video image an arm's length away."

MAX Internet Communications, Inc. "MAXicLIVE is a revolutionary, one-of-a-kind, accelerator card for Internet and Intranet video communications and video processing. The product was designed specifically to equip the desktop computer with the power required for true motion video communications over the Internet

Digital Cards  "Digital-Cards are the next generation business card which incorporate a customized interactive digital brochure tailored specifically for introducing your company to clients. Durable and compact, Digital-Cards have a capacity of 18 MB."  This is a rectangular business card that you place in your CD-ROM drive!!!  Cool!!

rocket-ebook  "About the size of a paperback, the Rocket eBookTM holds some 4,000 pages of words and images. That's about 10 novels. Weighing just 22 ounces, the Rocket eBook nestles easily in the curve of your palm. And it goes wherever you go - so you can take off in any direction and never be far from what you want or need to read. "

eBookNet Home: Electronic book hardware, content, information, e-publishing, e-book news, and hardware reviews!

Curling Up With A Good E-Book?  (TMCNet.com, 5/31/00) "With the bulk of production costs cut out (and printing costs entirely eliminated), it is the authors who will reap the benefits. It's estimated that royalty rates of 50 percent or more for e-books will not be unheard of."

SoftBook Press  "A pioneer in the fast-emerging electronic publishing market, SoftBook Press has developed patented technologies that are transforming the way organizations of all sizes distribute, access, and use reading material. The company is currently building strategic partnerships with leading publishers and content providers to make available an ever-expanding library of online material."

E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing ,The Chronicle June 19, 2000 "In short, I believe that our civilization ought to be able to do a lot better than reproducing the worst qualities of the current system. E-books aren't -- and shouldn't be -- the wave of the future. In truth, I'm expecting that the Open E-Book Standard will grow into a generally accepted code set for publications; that a free, creator-ready set of mechanisms will be invented to allow writers to present their work in an e-book format over which they will retain control, and for which they will get some form of direct payment."

MemoWare -The PDA Document Repository  "MemoWare is a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device, Psion PDA, TI Avigo, or WinCE device. The documents available here come in a variety of formats and cover a wide range of topics. Click here to read the MemoWare FAQ document."

Micron, Prodigy, Linux join \free PC\ trend  by CNET News.com Staff, July 6, 1999.

3Com | Palm Computing: Palm VII Connected Organizer  "We've developed a quick, efficient way for busy people on the move to access information on the web. It's a whole new way to be online. It's called web clipping. It brings you just the information you requested, without all the links and graphics to slow you down.

The way it works is simple. Query applications were developed for some of the most popular sites on the web. When you want information from one of those sites, you make a query and the information you need is "clipped" from the site, transmitted across the airwaves, and downloaded onto your Palm VII™ connected organizer. All without modems, wires, or long waits."

Handspring offers 'Palm-killer' online  (9/14/99)

Handspring 

Got a Match?   "The single chip computer in the above picture runs the iPic web-server, the world's tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP stack and a HTTP web-server. The chip above is a complete micro-computer, and it includes all components of a complete computer on a single tiny micro-chip (this includes the CPU (central processing unit), memory, serial port interface circuitry, and clock oscillator)."

Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) - speech recognition, human and machine language translation solutions and services

3D1500  "The 3D 1500 is a complete hardware/software package that combines a quality Minolta digital camera with MetaCreation's innovative MetaFlash™ 3D image production technology. It offers all the tools needed to produce photorealistic 3D images which can be transmitted quickly over the Internet and manipulated by the viewer. Easy-to-use and affordably priced, the Minolta 3D 1500 promises to vastly reduce the time and expense of creating 3D content - users no longer have to master complicated 3D modeling software or invest in high-end, comprehensive digitizing devices to get great results."  (posted 10/15/99)

Portable TV-Telephone for PHS Line - Kyocera (5/17/99)

Tiny InterNet Interface  (TINI) "You can Web-enable just about any piece of electrical equipment with the Model 390 TINI chip set, which includes a processor, Ethernet controller, and Flash ROM. In fact, if it is not electrical, just add a 1-Wire™ chip and make it electrical! We currently offer these chips integrated onto a TINI Board, a Java computer that includes the TINI chip set plus commodity RAM and interface circuitry. With TINI technology, you can develop Java applications quickly and easily to provide an Internet or Intranet interface for your equipment. With a simple Web server application, TINI can act as the world's smallest Java Web server. With a 1.25 x 4.05-inch form factor and less than 1 cubic inch displacement, the TINI interface can fit almost anywhere."

Anoto, Ericsson and Time Manager take pen and paper into the digital age with the Anoto Technology  (4/6/00)  "Anoto, Ericsson and Time Manager today introduced the Anoto technology, which will enable consumers to use pen and paper as their interface when interacting with computers, mobile phones and the Internet. By always having a digital copy of whatever is written on paper, a multitude of possibilities are opened up. The Anoto technology is a combination of a proprietary pattern, advanced image processing, Bluetooth wireless technology and an information infrastructure. These features combined let consumers use pen and paper in conjunction with all the possibilities of the mobile digital world."

N-Scribe  

TM is the only wireless, electronic pen that lets you capture your handwriting in digital format, in real time, without the use of special papers or pads. TM looks, feels and writes like a regular ballpoint pen, but it will change the way you interact with the world.

Using TM, anyone can send handwritten emails from their cell phone, share sketches and drawings with others, and for the first time, combine the power, freedom and immediacy of penmanship with the vast possibilities of computer technology."

Intel Makes an Ultra-Tiny Chip  New York times - Technology, June 10, 2001  "At a technical conference being held this weekend in Kyoto, Japan, a scientist for the Intel Corporation reported that the company had successfully made a handful of silicon transistors no more than 70 to 80 atoms wide and 3 atoms thick. They are capable of switching on and off 1.5 trillion times a second, making them the world's fastest silicon transistor."

Postcard from the Future: Chipping off the old block  RedHerring, November 1, 2001 "The new chip is called a ZISC, an acronym for zero instruction set computer. Instruction sets are the rules or commands that make up the machine language that a processor follows in order to complete a specific task. The instructions tell the processor to fetch information, decode it, and pass the info on. Today's microprocessors are of the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) variety. RISC processors evolved from complex instruction set computer (CISC) technology. Compared to CISCs, RISCs use a simplified set of instructions that improves the overall processing power of a chip. ZISCs, as the name suggests, are designed without instruction sets, thus making the chips even faster."

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Software

Oracle Corporation - Oracle Launches Portal-to-Go  "Making the internet more accessible, Portal-to-Go will transform telecommunications companies into a new generation of "wireless e-service providers," enabling any existing business or content provider to tap into the huge potential of the wireless market."

MagicalDesk   'A "Virtual" desktop that harnesses the power of the Internet, MagicalDesk offers instant access to mail, files and Internet bookmarks from any where, at any time. All you need is a standard browser and Internet access.'  It is free for first 5 MBytes.

"With your MagicalDesk, you can "Work. Virtually. Anywhere."
Your personal Virtual Desktop will bring all these Fully Integrated Applications:

1.Integrated Web E-mail for communication needs
2.Web-based Calendar and Scheduling to keep you on time
3.Personal To Do List to remind you of your daily goals
4.Addressbook
5.MagicalFiles Document System: File sharing and viewing anywhere
6.Personal Bookmarks to save your favorite Internet destinations"

Sun Microsystems

StarOffice 5.1 includes:

  • StarOffice Writer for word processing.
  • StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets.
  • StarOffice Impress for creating presentations.
  • StarOffice Draw and StarOffice Image for creating graphics.
  • StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists.
  • StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail.
  • StarOffice Base for access to databases.
  • StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news.
  • StarOffice Math for devising complex formulas.

Excite: People Chat: Voice Chat  

"Use Excite Voice Chat to speak to and hear your friends online.
Talk with up to ten people at once or hold private one-on-one conversations!
Create your own Voice Chat Rooms for you and your friends.
Have voice conversations with your friends or co-workers while you read email and browse the Web.
It's free! "

Gooey  "Gooey is a groundbreaking Internet tool enabling people simultaneously browsing the same Web site to communicate with each other. With Gooey, chat is not restricted to specific areas or sites but turns into an integral, natural part of your browsing. Using Gooey, you can chat on virtually any site on the Web. Gooey breaks the wall between Web surfers and turns the Web from a labyrinth of HTML pages into a lively, human environment. Gooey brings together people who share the same interests and Net habits, creating the first Dynamic Roving Community on the Internet."  "Gooey is a free product."

VMware, Inc.  "VMware makes other operating systems transparently available, running in a window or full-screen, along side applications from your "host operating system," the operating system that boots up when you turn on your PC. VMware is currently available for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Linux."

personalization.com  "...your source for news, information and analysis on all aspects of web personalization."

Web Services User Interface (WSUI)  "The Web Services User Interface (WSUI) initiative is a vendor-neutral standard that enables application developers and sites to deliver entire applications over the Internet as Web services."

Building a Standard  (Internet Week, 7/3/01) "Something like WSUI seems almost a requirement if Web services are to proliferate. With it, the addition of Web services to Web sites becomes a much easier proposition--and one that works uniformly across browsers, operating systems, devices and tool environments, ncluding Java and .NET."

Peer to Peer

Can peer-to-peer grow up?  (Red Herring 12/4/00)  

Gnutella and Freenet Represent True Technological Innovation  by Andy Oram (O'Reilly Network DevCenter 5/12/2000)

Routing Around the Web by Dale Dougherty (Web Techniques, January, 2001)

The Second Coming of Gnutella  (Web Review 3/2/01)

Clip2  "Clip2 is the source for technical information on Gnutella. Whether you are looking for a specification of the Gnutella protocol, a guide to protocol variations, or simply a reliable source of active host addresses, check out our developers section.  For in-depth analysis of the Gnutella network, see our articles."

Gnutella and the Transient Web (3/22/01)

Program Lets Users Share Almost Anything Online  International Herald Tribune (April 2, 2001) "This is the next step in the World Wide Web. Until now, Internet users have typically been passive recipients of stuff that's posted on Web sites. Groove turns each user into a broadcaster as well as a receiver. It enables two or more computers to hook up to one another directly and exchange information in real time. It is Napster for data and ideas. In one sense, it is what the Internet is all about."

Groove  

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Speech and Translation 

SpeechBot -audio search using speech recognition.  "SpeechBot is an experimental index of popular US radio shows, based on state-of-the-art speech recognition technology"

Commercial Speech Recognition   This site contains an extensive list of links to speech recognition sites.

Nuance Communications - Natural language speech recognition

talkingweb - the web is talking to you   "Talkingweb is the first interactive internet-based audio-on-demand system. It allows the user to access the Internet via any telephone using voice commands – without the use of a PC. The voice browser connects to the desired web page and plays the content back to the user. The requested text will be read out loud by a natural-sounding speech software; alternatively, Internet audio files can be played back."

Transparent Language-Foreign Language Learning, Dictionaries and Translation Software

AltaVista Translations 

SYSTRAN  "SYSTRAN, founded in 1968, develops and markets the leading Machine Translation (MT) technology, and provides a full range of automatic translation software products and services to millions of users."

One Voice Technologies  "YES YOU CAN! That's Right. From this day forward, you—and millions of Internet users—will be able to do just that. You'll be able to talk with your computer to access files quickly and to navigate the web easily just by talking in regular, everyday-kind-of language as if you were having a conversation with a friend. "

W3C Voice Browser Activity  "W3C is working to expand access to the Web to allow people to interact with Web sites via spoken commands, and listening to prerecorded speech, music and synthetic speech. This will allow any telephone to be used to access Web-based services, and will be a boon to people with visual impairments or needing Web access while keeping theirs hands & eyes free for other things. Additional information is available in the Voice Browser Activity statement."

Portico  "It's your personal assistant who connects you to the information you rely on each day. With Portico you can now access your email, voice mail, address book, calendar, news, and stock quotes over the phone or the web and reply to messages right then and there. No waiting. No missed opportunities."

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Open Source

Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?  CNET News November 1, 2002

The Linux Home Page at Linux Online  "The linux.org domain was registered in May, 1994 by Michael McLagan to fill a gap in the growing Linux movement. Designed to act as a central clearing house for information and promotion of Linux, we endeavour to represent the hard work of everyone involved with this operating system. Operating as a not-for-profit business (not a registered non-profit corp), Linux Online is located in Laurel, Maryland, USA."

Linux Journal  

The Open Source  "We have now followed up by forming the Open Source Initiative, an unincorporated nonprofit that will seek 501(c)3 status in the state of California as a research and educational association. The Open Source Initiative's mission will be to own and defend the Open Source trademark, to manage the www.opensource.org resources, to develop branding programs attractive to software customers and producers, and to advance the cause of open-source software and serve the hacker community in other appropriate ways."

REDHAT.COM - The definitive online destination for the open source community.

Wide Open News

Be Open or Die (11/10/99)

Linux Magazine: The Chronicle of the Revolution

Linux on Laptops   "This is an index of information and documentation of interest to those who now use or are considering using the Linux operating system on a notebook or laptop computer."

Living with Linux by Charles C. Mann, Atlantic Monthly, August, 1999. "Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds may have launched a successful campaign to unseal every computer, but it is a pending question how many people will want to look inside."

Linux.com  "Linux.com's mission is to enrich the Linux community by providing a centralized place for individuals of all experience levels to learn (and teach) the power and virtues of the Linux Operating System."

Desktop Is Next Frontier For Linux  (Tech Web News 8/15/00)

"Toward that end, an unlikely group of allies, including hardware rivals Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, Calif.; IBM Corp.; Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif; as well as Linux stalwarts like VA Linux Systems Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., are collaborating on GNOME, a common user interface for Linux."

ibiblio.org

Web Techniques January 2001  This issue contains several articles on Open Source.

UnitedLinux - "is a standards-based Linux operating system targeted at the business user. It is developed, marketed and sold by an experienced partnership of Linux companies."

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Books

The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil, Viking, 1999.

     Related links:

July/Aug 99: Brain Implants: A Lousy Idea

Rats Operate Robotic Arm Via Brain Activity  June 22, 1999

UCLA, Hewlett-Packard Report on Chemical Computers  (6/15/99)

Neural Networks - Artificial Intelligence Net Links

In first case of automated design, computers shape LEGO bricks into various designs without human input (9/25/99)

FEED | The New Brain: The Elaborate Machine (6/21/99)

Robotics Online

Salon Technology | Professor cyborg  (10/20/99)

Cyborg 1.0 - Kevin Warwick outlines his plan to become one with his computer.  Wired (2/8/00)

Wired 8.02: Neuromaster   -For Caltech's Steve Potter, the road to brain implants begins with a virtual rat. By Sean Stewart (2/8/00)

The Future of Humanoid Robots  Discover, March, 2000

Why the future doesn't need us  by Bill Joy, Wired (4/8/00)

Links Related to DNA/Molecular Computation

When Things Start to Think, by Neil Gershenfeld, Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1999

Robots - Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec, Oxford University Press, 1999

The Technology Machine - How Manufacturing Will Work In The Year 2020, by Patricia E. Moody and Richard E. Morley, The Free Press, 1999

Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse, by Julian Brown, Simon & Schuster, 2000

Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World by George Gilder, Free Press, 2000

The Playful World - How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination by Mark Pesce, Ballantine Books, 2000.

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Magazines and e-Zines

Salon Technology | Is technology unplugging our minds?  (10/7/99)  "In the last month, three new books were published -- "Faster" by James Gleick, "Coercion" by Douglas Rushkoff and "The End of Patience" by David Shenk -- which purport to expose the dark underbelly of technology. Less doom-and-gloom neo-Luddites than "enlightened skeptics" (as Shenk's jacket-flap puts it), Gleick, Rushkoff and Shenk examine how the information overload is affecting us, changing our lives and rewiring our brains."

"The Future of Digital Entertainment", Scientific American, November, 2000

"The Future of the Internet: Everything is about to change - again", Fortune, October 9, 2000

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