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2002-12-07Early machines in the current recent history of computing12. First Encounter with the 701 (for Boeing Aircraft). Porter, Randall E. First encounter with the 701 (for Boeing Aircraft). IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 5, 2 (April 1983), 202-204. I created data for this machine, and analyzed the outputs that it produced. I saw it once that I remember. Randy Porter was well known though.The NORC and Problems in High-Speed Computing. Von Neumann, John. The NORC and Problems in High-Speed Computing. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 3, 3 (July 1981), 274-279. Gosh. Creating the Science in Computer ScienceObservations About the Development of Theoretical Computer Science. Hartmanis, Juris. Observations About the Development of Theoretical Computer Science. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 3, 1 (Jan. 1981), 42-51. Another find.Getting the dawn age history rightLady Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Huskey, Velma R., Huskey, Harry D. Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 2, 4 (Oct. 1980), 299-329. More on the education and work of Augusta Ada King in conjunction with Babbage. I read this when it first appeared. It was knowing of its existence that led me to search these Annals.Early Work on Computers at Bletchley. Good, I.J. Early Work on Computers at Bletchley. IEEE Annals on the History of Computing 1, 1 (July 1979), 38-48. Having seen the film, Enigma which is not about Alan Turing, and knowing that Turing was at Bletchley, I thought I would see who Tommy Flowers was and the relationship of the two. Brookshear mentions Flowers and not Turing, so I am curious. Historical Precision in Computer Science. Katz, Kaila. Historical Content in Computer Science Texts: A Concern. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 19, 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997), 16-19. Comments on areas where computer science texts perpetuate stories and "readily available historical sources that do not stand up to critical analysis." Katz uses the stories around Babbage and Augusta Ada King's contributions to illustrate her point and to point out that the typical summary in a computer science text goes too far in this regard and not far enough with regard to the contributions of the intervening years until the beginning of the digital computer era after World War II. What Was Ada's Family Name? Lee, J.A.N. Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852 -- What Was Her Family Name? Anecdotes Department. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 22, 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2000), 72-?. Lee visits the family crypt to determine Ada's correct name, to no avail. The result is determined in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Ada's married name, and the name at the time of her death, was Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. (It was King who was the Earl of Lovelace.) This came up because I am looking for the article by the Huskeys on the appendix that Ada wrote. I want to know more about that paper, in response to a question raised by my reading of a vignette on Augusta Ada Byron in Brookshear's book. 2002-12-06Empowerment & Coordinated ActionStructures for Existence of CommitmentsExploring time-management resourcesPersonal time management and goal setting guide. A site devoted to time management. Looks nice.In looking through the materials I have identified so far in this particular blogging rampage, the one thing that puzzles me is the identification of tasks. I need to look more closely at that. There is something that I am not getting about work breakdowns and the scale of scheduled tasks. ManagerWise Knowledge Bank: Time Management. This is a weirdly-framed and cloaked site, but here is the actual content of the Time Management category. If you use the pop-up of categories, you can get into each of the topics with all of the frames. I blogged this one as a separate page just to obtain a URL that gets right to the spot. ManagerWise Information Knowledge Bank Menu. Follow the link from the ManagerWise home page and this is the pop-up of categories in the Knowledge Bank. Study Skills from University of Southampton. An extensive guide, with some useful check lists. (From the Department of Chemistry.) Study Skills Page of an Engineering Department. More links on study skills from the University of Bradford Depratment of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Student Development Web Pages. Overall information for students in terms of study practices and participation. Time Management Tips. A nice selection provided as part of the University of Bradford (in West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom) Student Development site. Loose EndsDancing with peer -to-peer. "As peer-to-peer technology evolves, it is taking on several hybridized forms to address technology needs and organizational requirements." It looks like there is more to find out about Groove plugins for Visual Studio .net and any standards-compliant open-source capabilities.Motifs distinguish networks A news article that summarizes facets of the technical paper, "Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks," Science, October 25, 2002. I need a look at that. This is about the Internet and web being scalable and also having important local features. New software creates dictionary for retrieving images New software that responds to written questions by retrieving digital images has potentially broad application, ranging from helping radiologists compare mammograms to streamlining museum curators' archiving of artwork, say the Penn State researchers who developed the technology. "Dr. James Z. Wang, assistant professor in Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology and principal investigator, says the Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures (ALIP) system first builds a pictorial dictionary, and then uses it for associating images with keywords. The new technology functions like a human expert who annotates or classifies terms. "«While the prototype is in its infancy, it has demonstrated great potential for use in biomedicine by reading x-rays and CT scans as well as in digital libraries, business, Web searches and the military,» said Wang, who holds the PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship at IST and also is a member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. "ALIP processes images the way people seem to. When we see a new kind of vehicle with two wheels, a seat and a handlebar, for instance, we recognize it as 'a bicycle' from information about related images stored in our brains. ALIP has a similar bank of statistical models 'learned' from analyzing image features. "The system is detailed in a paper, 'Learning-based Linguistic Indexing of Pictures with 2-D MHMMs,' to be given today." Education TechnologyDistance LearningIEEE Technology Task ForceInternational Forum of Educational Technology & Society. Also an IEEE activity, this is a subgroup of the IEEE Learning Technology Task Force.Objectives: "The International Forum of Educational Technology and Society (IFETS) encourages discussions on the issues affecting the educational system developer (including AI) and education communities. While recognising that this brief might be seen as too broad, it is proposed to conduct multiple discussion threads on more specific topics. This approach helps in developing specific aspects concerning the design and implementation of integrated learning environments while sharpening the overall vision about the purpose and processes of education. The discussions are aimed to be definitive and helpful in reaching some conclusions. The discussions are structured in the form of problem definition, fixed term discussions focusing towards some conclusive end. The conclusions are then put in concrete form for public dissemination." I think I now want to know what the scope of "educational communities" is. IEEE Technology & Pedagogy Publication. This is a planned quarterly journal "to put on record the best practices in employing learning technology with a view to identify and analyse the pedagogical issues surrounding planning, design, commissioning, implementation and on-going support for successful harnessing of learning technology." This is a reminder to me that I write like this too. They use the word pedagogy a lot. Learning Technology. The on-line publication of the IEEE CS Learning Technology Task Force. The current and past issues are linked here: "The Learning Technology aims to report the activities of Learning Technology Task Force including various announcements, work in progress, projects, participation opportunities, additions/modifications to the website and so on. In short, it would serve as a channel to keep everyone aware of Task Force's activities. "The quarterly publication is disseminated in two ways: content list by email and in HTML and PDF form on its website." -- The scope statement IEEE Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force. "LTTF has been founded on the premise that emerging technology has the potential to dramatically improve learning. The purpose of this task force is to contribute to the field of Learning Technology and to serve the needs of professionals working in this field." Hmm. I want to see where the needs of the clientele are addressed, and I don't mean educators. There is another newsletter and also a calendar. Educational Technology & Society Journal. Here is the home page for the journal itself. From the scope page, there is this: "Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly journal (January, April, July and October), but the articles will be published as soon as they are ready for publication (benefit of the electronic medium!), so that the issue will be built up and at any moment, one issue of the journal would be available to accept the articles. "Educational Technology & Society seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems. The articles should discuss the perspectives of both communities and their relation to each other: "Educators aim to use technology to enhance individual learning as well as to achieve widespread education and expect the technology to blend with their individual approach to instruction. However, most educators are not fully aware of the benefits that may be obtained by proactively harnessing the available technologies and how they might be able to influence further developments through systematic feedback and suggestions. "Educational system developers and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are sometimes unaware of the needs and requirements of typical teachers, with a possible exception of those in the computer science domain. In transferring the notion of a 'user' from the human-computer interaction studies and assigning it to the 'student', the educator's role as the 'implementer/ manager/ user' of the technology has been forgotten. "The aim of the journal is to help them better understand each other's role in the overall process of education and how they may support each other. The articles should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to Educational Technology & Society and three months thereafter." I must have been asleep when it became accepted to considered that AI is somehow a foregone conclusion and that is applicable now. Educational Technology & Society, October 2002. There is an International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. It sponsors the journal of Educational Technology & Society with the IEEE Learning Technology Task Force. The folks on a Co-Working task force post links to this and other matters with regard to distance working (including education and training). This particular issue is on Innovations in Learning Technology. There is a lot of material in this particular article. 2002-12-05Collaborative BloggingMy buddy BAnd (aka WLA and Wm A) has joined this blog as a teammate. What we have in front of us is a marvelous experience in coherence and also confirmable experience. BAnd and I are blogging asynchronously, and I have no idea what he sees as a team-member different than what I see as administrator of the blog. We will remedy that when we create a private blog for some collaborative work and see how that goes. Meanwhile, ...BAnd arrives!Time to experiment: I'd like to make a comment about a recent slashdot article on usability and design; viz., http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/12/04/2138200.shtml?tid=172.But my real question is how to make these nice little paragraphs with linked titles? Am I really supposed to type in HTML? Let's see what happens. -WLA OK, we did see what happened and I guess we really do need to add some kind of markup ... sigh! Now I need an HTML reference book that's up to date ... or something. Later, time for yoga. Empowerment & Coordinated ActionThis may seem to be an odd choice of title for this section. It is part of my preparation for the University of Liverpool on-line M.Sc in IT program. It also relates to high performance and integrity in work and life.Managing the Existence and Fulfillment of CommitmentsGleanings on performance and time-managementSuccess Networks International--informing, inspiring, empowering people to be their personal and professional best.. I have errands that I've promised to run, so I will stop my time-management search for now. There are two other pages taht appear useful in terms of study skills and also managing time. This page is a bit different. I haven't passed through the entrance yet. One prospect that I find appealing is access to a community where we support each other in creating and fulfilling on excellence. More later ...Michael Angier. The SuccessNet page for Michael Angier. Beside the information on high performance and on managing agreements and commitments, I see that this is also valuable ot look at in terms of how I present myself on the Web. Staying On Track. This other Michael Angier article is also pertinent to what I am up for: creating consistency and being count-onable in pursuit of my goals and in the work and projects I do with others. This applies at home and with family; in my consulting practice; in my scholarly vocation and research; and in my M.Sc program. Your Agreements Show Your Integrity. This article by Michael Angier goes right to the heart of the matter with regard to my managing or not managing my commitments and being sloppy, sleazy, and generally disgusting about how I am with my word. And I am highly-trained in this area. And my relationship to integrity is sucky. The problem is that I know that. Here is something that I want to look at along side of time management for me. Time Management: KITcampus Student Manual. I have been anxious lately, and it would appear that I have a big area where I am out of integrity in the matter of managing my commitments and agreements. It is somehow no surprise that part of the orientation for the KIT eLearning M.Sc program involves exploration of time-management principles and dealing with the kinds of overwhelm that can arise in the program -- not by design but as a possible consequence of the way the program will have us extend ourselves and operate at levels that are not ordinary for us. I am looking over this material again and seeing how to actively apply it toward having some freedom, play, and joy in my pursuit of this project and the others in my life. I have been suffering with it much too long. This marker is so I can find this useful page and its links easily. 2002-12-04Scholarship and CollegialityDeveloping Collaborative SkillsReviewing as training in writing and clear thinkingPublications by Jens Palsberg. An useful site. I am interested in what Jens is doing with the typed λ-calculus. But what has me be here isPalsberg, Jen., Baxter, Scott J. Teaching Reviewing to Graduate Students. Incorporating the principles and practices of formal review into a Ph.D. education, smoothly and inexpensively, as part of the existing coursework. On Site department. Comm. ACM 45, 12 (December 2002), 22-24. There is a downloadable PDF of the article. There is also a compressed PostScript (ps.gz) extended version. There is more background and a bibliography in the extended version. Proficiencies for performance in graduate studyA graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!". I was looking for something else on collaboration as part of graduate studies, when this popped into view. It illustrates, in many ways, the different kinds of proficiency that a Ph.D student develops. I find this also very useful to look at in terms of pursuing an on-line M.Sc, which is to some degree at the brink of this. Many of the insights apply to other activities in professional life. And it's just a good read.2002-12-03Loose EndsACM: Ubiquity - Demographic Profiling: A Euphemism for Corporate Spying Oh my. And we are so willing to believe that it is Microsoft who is big brother.I have commented on the little blurbs that introduce these articles before. But there needs to be a prize for this one: "Hands-on adoption of a multi-agent production planning technology in the manufacturing industry." Huh? EmpowermentHigh PerformanceHigh-performance development in organizationsWelcome to Getfeedback - Organisation Engineering There is a connection with CHPD that I haven't nailed down yet. This may be Alison Gill's operation.ew-network - breakfast briefings - october and november 2002 The connection is with the mention of 3-time Olympian Alison Gill, who is associated with CHPD. SofTools An interesting promotion. I am becoming less concerned about the promoted use of tools and far more interested in the practice in which the tool is offered as an instrument. SofTools partner portfolio. a group that claims CHPD as a partner. It will be interesting to see the kinds of tools that are proposed. Centre for High Performance Development. One of my classmates worked in high-performance in previous work and I am looking into it, especially how it ties to work done in the 80's by "Harry Shroeder." I may have the name wrong. 2002-12-01Scholarship and CollegialityAlternative Scholarly Communication VehiclesArXiv.orgarXiv.org e-Print archive. The overall arXiv, with categories, including Computer Science and Physics, beyond those in the Mathematics section.PennScience for Undergraduate ResearchThis seems to use the current scholarly-publication model, providing a kind of training bra. An interesting notion. I should check the transfer of rights betore I get too carried away about this.[2002-12-03] Well, the agreement is generous and places no restriction on publication elsewhere. There is a precautionary note warning submitters that other publications and conferences may disqualify duplicate submission. "The PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research is intended as a forum for undergraduate researchers to communicate their results to their peer community, and to give these authors experience in creating and submitting scientific manuscripts. The PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research reserves the right to publish papers submitted to it both in print and electronic form. Authors of such papers retain the right to publish or present any or all of the research comprising the paper in other fora or scientific journals." I don't think I will use fora instead of forums any time soon, though. I wonder if flora is the plural of florum? fauna of faunum? Stop that, Dennis. PennScience - Submission Guidelines. Here's the desired structure. There are only MS Word and TeX templates. HTML submissions will be rewritten and take longer to be published. PennScience - Submissions. "The Pennsylvania Journal of Undergraduate Research publishes two types of articles. The "Letters" section contains short summaries of research projects, no more than 1000 words or 1 page in length. The "Papers" section contains research papers of approximately 4-8 pages in length. "All accepted submissions will not be published until the author has submitted our Author Agreement form. Please print out, complete, sign, and mail this document to the address listed on the final page. In order to view and print this document, Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. This free program can be downloaded from Adobe.com. "You must read our Submission Guidelines before submitting an article. In addition, you will be given the opportunity to download one of our three templates (HTML, Microsoft Word, or TEX)." PennScience - Undergraduate Research Journal. In a posting on sci.math.research, Lauren M. Bylsma asks: "Are you an undergraduate student look for a way to publish your scientific research? PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research may be able to help you achieve your goal."
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