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This Week in Technology History…

May 29, 2009 – 2:55 pm

30 May 1996: ‘Video Conferencing’ Officially Rolled Out In light of  all the fun and fancy features allowed us via Skype and various other vehicles for streaming video, let us cast our memories back to the days in which ‘video conferencing’ was the stuff of fantasy and imagination.  While decades old in the collective imagination, read more »

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Website of the Week

May 26, 2009 – 12:02 pm

Ok, we’ve all been there.  You’re working on a paper and would like to look at a particular source but to your dismay both UIUC and WorldCAT show no holdings.  After scratching your head and shouting various expletives at your computer  screen for a few minutes, what should you do?  Do you: a.  Give up:  read more »

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Word of the Week

May 26, 2009 – 10:31 am

Denial-of-service attack (DoS attack): an attack on a network that floods it with useless traffic thus blocking legitimate traffic from accessing resources. This can lead to slow response time from the target of the attack or can make it so the Internet site or service does not function at all. Denial-of-service attacks are violations of read more »

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This Week in Technology History…

May 22, 2009 – 4:18 pm

22 May 1973: Internet invented. Well, sort of.  Before Al Gore there was evidently a certain Mr. Robert Metcalfe, a researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California.  According to Wikipedia, Metcalfe and a few of his co-workers at Xerox filed a patent for a “multipoint data communication system” in 1973.  One of Metcalfe’s read more »

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Website of the Week

May 21, 2009 – 9:30 am

Showcasing some inspirational designs is this week’s Website of the Week: css Zen Garden. The aim of the website is to promote CSS to graphic designers. You can look up past designs and see the versatility of using stylesheets. The css Zen Garden also has a Resource Guide with links to CSS-related sites. CSS for read more »

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Word of the Week

May 18, 2009 – 2:52 pm

This week’s word(s) of the week are related to Twitter. Twitter- Twitter in Plain English from Common Craft explains what Twitter is all about with helpful paper cutouts. cnet’s Newbie’s Guide to Twitter may also be useful for those who want more detail or prefer a printed explanation. Tweets- posts to Twitter. You only have read more »

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satellite image update

May 13, 2009 – 4:17 pm

Until recently the satellite images of Urbana in Google Earth and Google Maps were crappy low-res pictures full of mostly green blobs.  Well that seems to have changed. Here’s a perspective view across the quad. This image of south campus reveals that the satellite data must be a little old. Notice how the clocktower (of read more »

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Website of the Week

May 13, 2009 – 1:46 pm

The school year is winding down and summer is fast approaching. This week’s Website of the Week is Travel Muse, a trip planning website. The website uses information (mostly in review form) from other websites such as Yahoo!Travel and Trip Advisor to expand upon the destination guides available form the site itself. It also has read more »

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Word of the Week

May 11, 2009 – 11:42 am

semantic web: an extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined making it easier to find, share, reuse and combine information. related terms: XML, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), ontologies more information: W3C Semantic Web Activity semanticweb.org What is the Semantic read more »

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This Week in Technology History…

May 8, 2009 – 12:56 pm

8 May, 1995: New Century Network Launched On this day, the New York Times joined up with eight other newspaper organizations to form the New Century Network, with the goal of linking local online news services into a national network on the World Wide Web. According to the NYT Website: “The New York Times Company read more »

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