11/5 Conversation Starter

Hi everyone!

I'll be talking about nook, Barnes & Noble's new e-book reader. Here is Barnes & Noble's site for it if you want to check it out before class:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

~Amanda

Starter for 11/2

Hey all!

Sorry for the late notice. I will be talking about Checksums in class tomorrow. You can check out the wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum.

Megan

Oct. 27 starter

Hi everyone,

I'll be talking about Wowd, which bills itself as a "real-time" and "social" search engine. It opened a beta version of its service to the public last week.

Here is an article on it:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23756/

And here is the site:

http://www.wowd.com/

Check it out!

Task 03 is due to next Thursday (Oct 29)

As we discussed in class last week, the task 03 (MS Word assignment) is due to next Thursday. It was originally next Tuesday, but you have extra 2 days now.

Have fun for formatting the e-books.

Sanghee

Berkeley Device

Well you all are in for a treat on Thursday, if I may say so myself. We will be discussing the acclaimed Berkeley Device (at least that's what the media calls it), an instrument that can theoretically store information for A BILLION YEARS! That's right, I said that.

Even better, it should be compatible with any technology developed in the future. Goodbye hardware upgrades.

So stay tuned for this Thursday!

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/06/03/billion-year-ultra-dense-memory-chip/

October 27 Starter

Hey all, I'll be talking a bit about online backup services, like Mozy and Carbonite. You can check out the wikipedia article on the subject here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_backup_service

Grades are available to view now

I re-uploaded the files of gradesheets on the server. Let me know if you have still a problem to access it.

Sanghee