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HIGHER EDUCATION: The Scout Report March 29, 2002
Volume 8, Number 11
Locally Controlled Scholarly Publishing via the Internet: The Guild Model
[.pdf]
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/WP/WP02-01B.html
Four major types of free publishing models help researchers and scholars
communicate on the Internet: "electronic journals, hybrid
paper-electronic journals, authors' self-posting on web sites, and
disciplinary repositories where authors post their own unrefereed
articles." A fifth model, called Guild Publishing, is "the research
publication series that are called working papers or technical reports that
are sponsored by academic departments or research institutes." Offered
by the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, this
report compares and contrasts Guild Publishing with the other four publishing
models, highlighting both its strengths and limitations. Any scholar or
student who uses the Internet for either research or publishing should find
this report valuable, and users can read the report online or in Adobe
Acrobat (.pdf) format. [TS]
HIGHER EDUCATION: NewsScan Daily, 19 April 2002
("Above The Fold")
BRAIN "DRAIN" IS ACTUALLY BRAIN RECIRCULATION
A study from the Public Policy Institute of California has concluded that
immigrant entrepreneurs and professionals from countries such as China and
India are increasingly consulting for companies and government departments in
their native countries. Furthermore, one out of five of the immigrants
surveyed have invested in their own their own startups or venture firms in
their homelands. Anna Lee Saxenian, the UC-Berkely regional economics
professor who conducted the study, says: "Immigrant entrepreneurs are
being infected with the Silicon Valley disease. Then they are exporting
it." (New
York Times 19 Apr 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/technology/19BRAI.html
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES:
KEN’S NOTE: For many Photoshop is a necessary tool in their digital
world. Most learn just enough to do the job at hand. Here are a few tools and
connections to expand your range of possibilities.
PHOTOSHOP RESOURCES ON-LINE
The Adobe sit should be your first stop as they will keep you up to date on
the latest changes / happenings in the world of all things Photoshop. http://www.adobe.com/misc/training.html
Planet PhotoShop is your “cut to the race” site, as it will
connect you to the best that can be found on the web: http://www.planetphotoshop.com
A very nice site for step by step instructions to create special effects: http://www.handson.nu/
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: NewsScan Daily, 17
January 2002 ("Above The Fold")
EXPLODING CHIPS COULD FOIL THIEVES
Researchers at the University of California in San Diego have developed a way
to blow up silicon chips using an electric signal -- an innovation that could
be used to fry electronic circuitry in devices after they're stolen or fall
into the wrong hands. The American spy plane that was impounded in China last
year is an example where such technology would have proven handy in
destroying its secret electronics systems. Similarly, if a cell phone were
stolen, the owner could alert the wireless carrier, which would send a signal
to trigger a small explosion in the phone's chip, rendering it useless. The
techniques uses a small amount of the oxidizing chemical gadolinium nitrate
applied to a porous silicon wafer. (New Scientist 16 Jan
2002)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991795
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: Edupage, March 25, 2002
MIT COMES TO WASHINGTON'S DEFENSE
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has entered into an alliance with
the Pentagon to develop high-tech armor for soldiers that would incorporate
nanotechnology. The United States government will put $50 million into the
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology at MIT, while the school will put 35 of
its professors on the project in return. Defense contractors Raytheon and
DuPont are also contributing $40 million over a period of five years. Some of
the applications planned for development include a fabric with
nano-engineered liquid molecules that would stiffen when subjected to a
magnetic field. Soldiers could use their clothing as a cast if bones are
broken, or as protection against penetration by bullets. Nanotechnology could
help to significantly reduce the weight soldiers currently have to carry,
upwards of 125 pounds. The research initially will be unclassified, but that
could quickly change should the Defense Department find any dramatically
valuable military technology.
(Financial Times, 25 March 2002)
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: NewsScan Daily, 26 March
2002 ("Above The Fold")
THE PHOTONIC REVOLUTION
Whereas electrons are a basic component of matter, photons are a basic
component of energy and make up the electromagnetic spectrum (including
X-rays and ultraviolet, infrared, and radio waves, as well as visible light).
The photonic revolution, though still well in the future, is expected to
revolutionize technology in general and particularly computing and
communications. Anthony Tether, head of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), predicts: "You'll see enormous advances in
optical components and devices. Miniaturization will lead to many
orders-of-magnitude increases in performance. You can do a lot more in a lot
less real estate." One new development is the creation of "photonic
fibers" by MIT physics professor Yoel Fink, who says the fibers can
deliver up to 1,000 times more photons than today's fiber-optic cables. (San
Jose Mercury News 25 Mar 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2935412.htm
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION: NewsScan Daily, 26 March
2002 ("Above The Fold")
WELCOME TO THE 'THUMB TRIBE'
Young people under the age of 25 who are avid users of handheld technologies
such as mobile phones, GameBoys and PDAs, are exhibiting a physical mutation,
according to research conducted by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at
Warwick University in England. The study, carried out in nine cities around
the world, indicates that the thumbs of younger people have taken over as the
hand's strongest and most dexterous digit.
Indeed, in Japan, where the trend is most noticeable, the under-25s refer to
themselves as "oya yubi sedai" -- the thumb generation, or thumb
tribe. The study's author, Dr. Sadie Plant, says: "The fact that our
thumbs operate differently from our fingers is one of the main things that
defines us as humans. Discovering that the generation has taken to using
thumbs in a completely different way and are instinctively using it where the
rest of us use our index fingers is particularly interesting." She cites
examples of younger people using their thumbs exclusively and ambidextrously
to type messages on a phone keypad, barely looking at the keys while doing
so. "They used the absolute minimal movement -- simply exerting pressure
with the thumb rather than tapping at the phone. There are many ways to input
information into these devices, but for some reason kids under 25 most often
choose to use their thumbs over any other digit. There is no question that choice
is having a clear effect on their physicality: thumbs are the new
fingers." (The Observer 24 Mar 2002)
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,673103,00.html
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION: NewsScan Daily, 15 April
2002 ("Above The Fold")
THINGS COME ALIVE
We're just at the beginning of a new age of products, devices and objects
that talk to us -- and to each other. "We're really talking about the
next 50 years of computing," says the executive director of the Auto-ID
Center at MIT, which is one of the organization studying ways of using
computer chips embedded in tiny pieces of plastic attached to just about
everything, including egg cartons, eyeglasses, books, toys, trucks, and
money. The tags are currently known as Radio Frequency Identification Tags
(REIG), and the
Auto-ID Center calls the core of its standard "ePC" or Electronic
Product
Code. Companies such as Wal-Mart, Gillette, and Procter & Gamble have
committed to using the technology. As for privacy issues? Accenture scientist
Glover Ferguson agrees that privacy will be an issue, and says: "There
will have to be a social discourse about what we want and don't want. But the
technology isn't going away. You can't un-invent it." (USA Today 11 Apr
2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/12/tinyband.htm
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION: NewsScan Daily, 19
April 2002 ("Above The Fold")
BOOTLESS PCs
Personal computers that boot up instantly may be on the market in just a few
years, according to some researchers. Researchers at places such as the
University of Houston, Motorola, Siemens, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and NASA are
working to develop nonvolatile memory, because "you can take it to the
moon and the same information will be there." Alex Ignatiev of the Texas
Center for Superconductivity says that his group as designed a "simple
resistor" that's much faster to access than RAM and can be applied in a
thin film only a few hundred atomic atomic levels thick. (Wired 19 Apr 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51936,00.html
This publication is a collection of bits and bytes that I
assemble as I wander about on the Internet. If you have notes to share please
send them to me.
Moving Together is not an official publication of Maharishi University of
Management. It is nothing other than a personal try to share/create a
collective wisdom in the area of technology as it impacts professional
Kinesiologists.
Ken Daley
Email
http://www.mum.edu/exss_dept/daley.html
Associate Professor
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences
Maharishi University of Management
Fairfield, Iowa USA 52557
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editor · Sportscience Homepage · ©2002
Edited by Ken Daley.
Published October 2002
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