Author Archives: David Owen

“The Google Cultural Institute plans to make artifacts like the [Dead Sea] scrolls — from museums, archives, universities and other collections around the world — accessible to any Internet user.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/technology/quietly-google-puts-history-online.html?_r=1

If you’ve never done any computer programming before, try a few rounds of Light-Bot:  http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot.  The object of the game is to get a robot to walk to the blue squares and light them up.  You do this by writing … Continue reading →

“By developing techniques, methods, and user interfaces for exploring the new landscape of information, computer scientists can help discover, verify, and even publish new public-interest stories at lower cost.”  Computational Journalism  (from latest issue of Communications of the ACM)

http://www.sil.org/silepubs/Pubs/52287/SILForum2009-005.pdf Why bother with XML?  This article might be interesting if you are wondering about this. In the First Wave, all writing and publishing was done by hand with quill or stylus or chisel; every product, from an individual word … Continue reading →

“Not every computing scientist will be interested in studying social media, but computing science social media research can have a profound impact on every discipline.” Realizing the Value of Social Media Requires Innovative Computing Research (from latest issue of Communications … Continue reading →