Doodles s string of logos celebrating important figures in history who have made contributions to our modern society in science and engineering. Were it not for Borges and other visionaries such as American inventor and engineer Vannevar Bush – who...
A civil liberties group in Australia is criticizing Google's decision to pull ads by the Wilderness Society that brought attention to "a boycott against a paper manufacturer that uses wood sourced from Australian old growth forests.
And you probably also share his distain for a distopian society where "firemen" burn books "for the good of humanity. When Bradbury became the first science fiction writer to win the Pulitzer Prize in May 2007, he told LA Weekly that his novel was...
They're a public company headquartered in a democratic, capitalistic society. Then there's Google's connection with the government: their close relationship with NASA, Eric Schmidt's appointment to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and...
It is its own society; one with a "Wild West" set of rules, if you can find them. We already live in a world of science fantasy. Why not use the technology we have to make the process cleaner? We have fingerprint scanners on many of the existing...
Bowker (executive director, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University). Panelists include Peter Norvig (Google director of research), Terry Winograd (professor of computer science, Stanford), and Geoffrey C.
The December/Januaury Issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is new online (free). Here's a bunch of new reading for your reading lists. This issue of the Bulletin was, edited by Dr.
These two research projects served as a reminder that the fastest way from question to answer is often not a search engine but an information tool -- a broad-based directory such as the Open Directory Project or Librarians' Index to the Internet...
From Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the site is designed to explain how Gator targets ads against specific web sites and allows for online testing of what ads appear without having to install the Gator software.
Many are published by non-profit societies that use subscription revenues to fund other activities of the society. In fact, publishing original science, technology and medical (STM) research is a huge business, estimated to generate annual revenues...
