it was natural history, it was the pitt rivers, and it was the scientific instruments.

from oxford, here they are

isn't he, certainly. it is.

Yet Another Killer Drone: We'll Defeat the Children with Robots. The call to meet the challenge of the relentless Defenseless Baby Scourge is addressed once again as Northrop Grumman joins Boeing in unveiling a new automated flying drone. The X-47B robotic fighter jet was presented in full-scale mockup this week, but won't be ready to […]

Serious Games Summit DC. Serious Games Summit DC October 18-19 Washington DC http://www.seriousgamessummit.com Serious Games are applications of interactive technology that extend far beyond the traditional videogame, including: training, policy exploration, analytics, visualization, simulation, education and health and therapy. These applications are allowing immersive… [miscellany is the largest category] —— i find this fascinating…….

Why doesn't Academia understand Industrial Work?. 20 Jul 2004: “If we want to, in Bryan's words, close the gap between academic and industrial work, such that a better understanding for industrial problem is the result (which could lead to improved paper acceptance rates, among other things), than industry will need to be more pro-active in […]

ITU-T and Internet Governance. Houlin Zhao, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector's (ITU-T) Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, gave a talk on Internet Governance at ITU Telecom Africa. The ITU-T maintains a website on ITU-T and Internet Governance which is also linked to from the ITU Internet Governance Resources site. [ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog] —— […]

More on Google indexing of OAI-compliant archives. Kinley Levack, A Giant Leap for Academia? Google Ventures into DSpace, EContent, EContent, July/August, 2004. Excerpt: “DSpace is open-source software designed to assist colleges and universities in creating, managing, and maintaining digital repositories. There are currently about 125 schools using this software, but no tool existed that enabled […]

Interesting survey of blog readers by Blogads [Joi Ito's Web] —- interesting enough…..

ITU/BDT Arab Regional Workshop on IPv6. ITU/BDT Arab Regional Workshop on Internet Protocol Version-6 (IPv6) in Tunis 20-22 July 2004. [ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog] —- this is fairly interesting…..