Ezra Pound: »Make It New!«

P2P Web Search: Make It Light, Make It Fly (Demo)

We propose a live demonstration of MinervaLight, a P2P Web search engine. MinervaLight combines the (previously separate) focused crawler BINGO! (to harvest Web data), the local search engine TopX, and our P2P Web search system MINERVA under one common user interface. The crawler unattendedly downloads and indexes Web data, where the scope of the focused crawl can be tailored to the thematic in...

New drug pricing: does it make any sense?

New Internet Economics Might Not Make It to the Edge

O ne central tenet of open source software development is, " Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. " Numerous eyeballs are now also affecting the central engineering and economic foundations of the Internet's architecture. The traditional schematics of a hierarchical network began with a large base of last-mile customers — both enterprise and consumer connections — which led to regional ...

Make it so !

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

Archaea make it big

There’s an old joke that circulates in newsrooms. A reporter rushes up to City Desk and breathlessly tells his editor that he has confirmed the Second Coming of Christ. The editor doesn’t want the story. “We had that one already — 2 000 years ago.” If it’s news, it has to be the first, the biggest, the oldest or the most, especially in science news. So, how do you make the papers if you’ve comp...