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Computer Science lectures, coursework, and exams

November 19th, 2005 · No Comments

ArsDigita University offers Computer Science lectures, coursework, and exams including full lesson videos (Real format) and accompanying lecture notes (Word docs and PDF.) Topics include Math for Computer Science, Object-oriented Program Design, Unix Workshop, and Artificial Intelligence.
The courses are licensed Creative Commons by-sa 2.0.

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Content Usability

November 18th, 2005 · No Comments

A nice little presentation on in QuickTime format (no sound, only powerpoint style pages.) Available in Portuguese and English.
Recording of a presentation on “Content Usability” made in Lisbon, during the Usability Seminar as part of the celebrations of the World Usability Day
Creative Commons licensed by-nc-sa 2.5.

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Tags: Technology · User Experience

What is a blog?

November 18th, 2005 · No Comments

By Robin Good. A series of video interviews asking the often dangerous question “What is a blog?” Opinions from the likes of Chris Pirillo, Marc Canter and Robert Scoble. Creative Commons licensed by 2.5 (…so you can actually do something with it! Have I mentioned my dislike for nd and nc licenses?).

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

November 16th, 2005 · No Comments

This looks like fun. (Ok, so i’m a geek)
The complete video lecture series of MIT’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, as well as the accompanying textbook, are available online under a Creative Commons by-sa 1.0 license. Videos available in MPEG and Divx formats.
Licensed Creative Commons by-sa 1.0.

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Free For All (By Peter Wayner)

November 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Free For All (By Peter Wayner) is available as a PDF, HTML, PalmPDB, XML (the list goes on…) version. Creative Commons licensed by-nd-nc 1.0.

Read this story of how a loose-knit group of programmers, dreamers, philosophers, geniuses and fools discovered the fact that that they could write better software in less time by just giving it [...]

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The RoMEO Project: Protecting metadata in an open access environment

November 10th, 2005 · No Comments

Actually, Ariadne has some neat stuff. Lots of back articles to search through. This one about metadata ownership & protection is worth a read as well.
Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
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Tags: Research · Technology

Libre Graphics Meeting

November 10th, 2005 · 1 Comment

The first Libre Graphics Meeting will be held on 17, 18 and 19 March 2006 in Lyon, France.
LGM will be a melting pot, with free software graphics developers and artists meeting each other, exchanging ideas and tips, and planning the future of free graphics. Graphics professionals interested in learning about the state of the art [...]

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Tags: News · Technology

Malleable Mobile Music

November 10th, 2005 · No Comments

Ran into this fascinating project by Atau Tanaka of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. It’s called Malleable Mobile Music.
The system exploits ad-hoc wireless networks and mobility to allow a community of users to participate in the real-time creation of a single piece of music. Socially defined permissions define levels of access to the [...]

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