Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Souls of the new machine

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

“I’m slightly afraid that fewer and fewer people will want to devote their whole life to one experiment. This may be a problem.”
- Michal Tomášek

One experiment, one life
The scale and complexity of the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] can only be rivaled by some of the greatest scientific efforts ever made, such as the race to [...]

Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Rosetta Project

The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,000 human languages assembled in the year 02002 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to [...]

Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn’t ‘Melt’ the Internet

Monday, August 18th, 2008

To be perfectly honest, I’m really (pleasantly) surprised the Internet did not crash.  It seems that, even with all the streaming video from the Olympics, the Internet was in no danger of imploding.  ZDNet has more here.
- Rudy Carrera

Technology for Humanity

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Technology for human needs:

The Outquisition
Engineers Without Borders
MIT International Design Summit
Free/Open Appropriate Technology
Transition Towns
Technology for Humanity