Threat Is Seen to Heirloom Software. The personal computer industry began less than three decades ago, but already some of the early software programs that defined the era are an endangered species, the potential victims of “bit rot,” according to a prominent digital archivist. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] hmm, we've know about […]

Torvalds Suggests DiBona for SCO Panel. SCO has offered to document its far-reaching infringement claims against Linux for independent experts. The creator of Linux wants someone believable on the panel. [Linux Journal] I tend to think that it would be good to have a diverse panel of experts. DiBona is a good possibility for this.

CALL FOR PAPERS — note extended deadline Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html Workshop at ISWC 2003 International Semantic Web Conference Sanibel Island, Florida, 20-23 October 2003 Hamish Cunningham Atanas Kiryakov Ying Ding The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, re-purposeable layer to compliment the existing web of […]

This is reminder that the submission deadline for the MDM/KDD2003 The Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining August 27th, 2003 is in 15 DAYS (May 31st). You can find more information about the Workshop at http://research.it.uts.edu.au/emarkets/mdmkdd2003/ We invite you to submit a paper to the Workshop.

The International Conference on Web Services – Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe'03) Theme: Web Services Architectures, Infrastructures and Applications Location: Erfurt, Germany Date: 2003-09-23 and 2003-09-24 Web site: http://www.jeckle.de/ICWS03-Europe http://tab.computer.org/tfec/icws03 Important Dates Deadline Paper Submission: 2003-05-23: Notification of acceptance: 2003-06-20 Camera ready copies in electronic format: 2003-06-30. The International Conference on Web Services – Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe'03) […]

Research Assistant the Launch and Reception of the Lord of the Rings: Part 3 Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies RESEARCH GRADE 1A: £21,125 PER ANNUM, PRO RATA Working for ESRC-funded project for a period of ten months, full-time, beginning 1 October 2003, you will play a crucial role in organising the research within […]

Applied social network analysis. Somehow Eric Promislow's Amazing Baconizer escaped my attention until Eric mentioned it to me recently. Eric was co-creator of OmniMark, an ahead-of-its-time XML-oriented programming language, and is a senior developer at ActiveState. “The Baconizer,” he says, “is where I go to play in your basic LABP world (I'm too lazy to […]

MS $180M 'Crush-Linux' fund: Good NYT piece by Thomas Fuller this A.M. about the kinder, gentler Microsoft that has emerged since its deal with the Bush Administration. MS set up a $180 million fund to enable salesmen to offer MS server products and services to governments at steep discounts or free (“Under NO circumstances lose […]

The missing Web. Allen has mounted a passionate argument on behalf of the inspired idea behind GlobeAlive: That we have fine search engines for documents, but not for people. When he first told me about it, and tossed off the line World Live Web, my mind was blown. In a World of Ends, we should […]

Don't read my blog!. I suggest that you consider reading this blog, or perhaps this one.  You know there are lots of great blogs out there.  Scout around. [Ernie the Attorney] but I like yours, in part because of the mnemonics of the name, but also because it provides such interesting pointers to others, plus […]