Dr. Shirani is a colleague in Electrical and Computer Engineering. A Ph.D. student we are both second readers for drew my attention to course slides he put up that explain coding techniques for text and streaming. In particular the Dictionary Coding slides are interesting on LZ and LZW algorithms that are foundational (and really neat.)
Robinson: Anastasia
Anastasia by Peter Robinson (and Andrew West) at De Montfort University is now open source. It is a server and XML document processing system that can be used to publish, render, and search an XML corpus.
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Reading, Screen and Page
The Electronic Document Systems Foundation produces various reports for sale. The summary of the 1997 Network, Screen and Page report is available in PDF and paints a different picture about reading than the more recent NEA report Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America.
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Updated Personal Site
GeoffreyRockwell.com, my personal site (along with its mirror at McMaster) has been updated with a design by Alex Stevens. I have added a “publications” page with preprint PDFs of many of the papers I have written and published. Enjoy …
Game Sleuths
From StÈfan S.;Guardian Unlimited | Online | The net’s sleuths is a story about the fan community helping track down the hackers who stole the beta of Half-Life 2. It isn’t clear what the fan community did other than pass tips.
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Friendster Mistake
Well … getting an account on Friendster was a mistake. It just looks like a fancy dating service. Remind me not to return.
Masters of Game Design
Grand Text Auto ª Gettin’ Schooled in Games drew my attention to a new Master of Science in Engineering in Computer Graphics and Game Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. The program is open to students without a CS degree.
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Moulthrop: Reagan Library
Reagan Library by Stuart Moulthrop is a hypertext which uses QuickTime VR panoramas (created in Bryce 3D) with text that is assembled and therefore changes on different visits. A very simple and clean paradigm.
I found this on Grand Text Auto ª Reading at Risk from Library – um, I mean Internet.
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Perlingata: Latin Perl
From join-the-dots: Perlingata, a Perl module for writing in Latin. For a paper on it, see Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl for the XXIimum Century.
Could languages and linguistics contribute to computer language design?
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Fotolog.net: Photography Blogs
Fotolog.net allows people to create one-picture-a-day blogs. Simple interface that works for diary-like image. Amazing international crowd of fotologgers (largest group from Brazil) – most are just posting pictures of themselves and friends, on which other comment, but some are beautiful. Much more interesting than lulu.com.
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