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This Week in Technology History…

June 26, 2009 – 4:14 pm

25 June 1981: Microsoft Lives! Whether in fame or infamy, this day marks the official birth of Microsoft, Incorporated.  According to the Computer History Museum: “Founded six years earlier by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft grew out of the friends’ development of BASIC for the MITS Altair home computer kit. With later successes in read more »

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Website of the Week

June 24, 2009 – 1:42 pm

The dog days of summer are nearly upon us, although due to astronomical factors such as general precession and what not, they are no longer tied to the heliacal rising (when a star is first visible over the eastern horizon at dawn after a period of being hidden) of Sirius, the dog star.  Nonetheless, like read more »

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June 19, 2009 – 4:18 pm

19 June 1623: Mathematician Blaise Pascal born. Unlike most of us, who, at age 13 are busy trying not to look stupid in front of the other kids at school, Blaise Pascal occupied most of his teenage years with elaborate forays into the sublteies of  Euclidian geometry and Cartesian logic.  Probably most famous for his read more »

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Website of the Week

June 17, 2009 – 9:32 am

This week’s Website of the Week is Bookcrossing.com, which touts itself as the “World’s Biggest Free Book Club”. For those of you who have not heard of bookcrossing before, here is a definition: bookcrossing: the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do read more »

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Word of the Week

June 15, 2009 – 3:48 pm

E-Mail Bankruptcy: With all of the talk about impending financial doom that has circulated over the past few months, it is only fitting that this term emerged.  According to TechTerms.com, e-mail bankruptcy occurs when one becomes so overwhelmed with unread email messages that you write off the losses and start over.  It should be noted, read more »

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June 10, 2009 – 1:32 pm

Have you ever wondered what a world without mouse clicks would be like?  Alright, I haven’t either, but making an appearance on Information Week’s top tech websites of 2008, DontClick.IT challenges the user to explore navigation without the traditional mouse click.  Visit this site to learn more about the impetus behind the project and the read more »

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Word of the Week

June 8, 2009 – 12:04 pm

RDF (Resource Description Framework): What can be better than having all of your research interests overlap in one term?  This is my current situation in describing the term RDF – it has classification, Greek roots, XML and countless possibilities.  Sam referenced this term a couple of weeks ago when she dealt with the semantic web read more »

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Website(s) of the Week

June 3, 2009 – 12:13 pm

A double whammy this week. After all, when it comes to fun, twice the amount is well, two times better! We present two more comic websites for your enjoyment! PHD Comics fulfills all your intellectual needs, and some more. With the school year wound down and another one coming up soon enough, we need to read more »

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June 3, 2009 – 11:56 am

Mashup: According to Wikipedia, a mashup is “a web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application.”  Toted as adding web 2.0 functionality to traditional portals, the recent hype over this tool is attributed to the ease in which ordinary users can produce tailored applications through the read more »

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