Malcolm Brown, Dartmouth, wonders with all the buzz that surrounds the Web 2.0, students' immersion in it, and the current focus on emphasizing the learner, if it doesn't make sense to implement Web 2.0 features into the CMS?
Url: Malcolm Brown, Mashing up the Once and Future CMS, Educause Review, vol. 42, no. 2 (March/April 2007): 8–9 http://www.educause.edu/er/erm07/erm0725.asp?bhcp=1http://www.educause.edu/er/erm07/erm0725.asp?bhcp=1
From July 3 to 16, 2007, a major media studies conference, entitled Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations, will be held at Tokyo University. Prominent scholars such as
The conference languages are Japanese and English.
The R Project for Statistical Computing is an Open Source application with binary installation routines for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is much much more than a simple statistical package. R provides an interpreted statistical programming language that looks a lot like S. The resemblance is so strong that I can use my old S language reference books to work with R.
R provides a graphing facility that goes far beyond what you might have used in spreadsheets like Excel.
R version 2.4.0 was just released last month (October 3).
"A group of 46 senior scientists accused the Royal Society this week of putting its own considerations above those of science by adopting a negative stance on the issue of open access publishing, in which scientific literature is made freely available via the Internet. The letter-writers argue that the Royal Society is disparaging open access to protect the interests of for-profit publishers – including the Royal Society itself -- while the Society accuses petitioners of harbouring their own conflict of interest."
Stephen Pincock, Royal Soc. attacked on open access : Leading scientists criticize the UK's national academy of science for its negative stance, The Scientist, Daily News, Dec. 9, 2005 http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20051209/02
John Markoff, Your Internet Search Results, in the Round, The New York Times, May 9, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 - For decades, computer researchers have experimented with the idea of displaying textual information in visual maps, but the concept has been slow to find practical applications. Now, one of the pioneering companies in the field is hoping that by making its software available as part of a standard Web browser it will be able to wean surfers away from the simple ranked lists of search results offered by Google and Yahoo. Groxis, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2001, has converted its desktop Grokker software program, which displays a Web search as a series of categories set in a circular map, to run as a Java plug-in for browsers. On Monday, the company will begin allowing computer users to view Yahoo search results with its visualization technology at http://www.groxis.com . [MORE at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/technology/09yahoo.htmlGerry McKiernan's post includes links to good historical papers: [1] Gerry McKiernan, New Age Navigation, Innovative Information for Electronic Journals, The Serials Librarian, Vol. 45(2) 2003. p. 87. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf [2] Gerry McKiernan, The Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases, Cyberstacks, March 21, 1999. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic.htm
The Christian Science Monitor published a editorial today touching on a fundamental tasks of academic computing - understanding numbers.
Pi's presumed infinite nature has absorbed mathematicians - and others - for centuries. According to "That Book...of Perfectly Useless Information," newly published, actress Melissa Joan Hart can actually recite pi from memory to 400 decimal places - not quite as good as a modern computer, which can take pi to more than 200 billion digits, but it's still pretty impressive.
But students young and old might not be aware of news generated by physicists at Purdue University that suggests pi, or 3.14159...., might not be as truly random as once believed.
The scientists just completed a study (published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Modern Physics) comparing pi's "randomness" to that produced by some 30 different machines that generate random numbers. Though they found that the sequences derived from pi are an acceptable source of randomness (a big factor in producing hard-to-decrypt code, or solving particular physics problems), pi's string doesn't produce that randomness quite as effectively as the machines. Call it a case of deus ex machina.
For now, pi's integrity appears safe. "We do not believe these results imply anything about a pattern existing in pi's number set," says Ephraim Fischbach, a Purdue physics professor.
The Monitor's View, Humble Pie, The Christian Science Monitor, April 29, 2005. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0429/p08s03-comv.html
Purdue University News, Pi seems a good random number generator – but not always the best, April 26, 2005. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2005/050426.Fischbach.pi.html
Spotted by GCD's Brain, Math Tidbits.
opensourceCMS.com was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.
The administrator username and password is given for every system and each system is deleted and re-installed every two hours. This allows you to to add and delete content, change the way things look, basically be the admin of any system here without fear of breaking anything.
Why some systems are here and others are not? Below are the main system requirements.
1. Root access to the server is not required for installation.
2. The system must be php/mysql based.
3. opensourceCMS is not just for "open source" systems.
4. We may not know of the system.
5. Some systems we couldn't get installed.
OrangeGuava Desktop updates the desktop metaphor which has remained mostly unchanged for the past decade. A real world desktop has stacks of paper arranged informally in such a way that you always know where to find a piece of information, simply by knowing which side of the desk you always put that kind of information. This is combined with the functionality of a large pad of paper, to take notes in a similarly informal structure. http://www.orangeguava.com/
