Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
- ACM classic book series
Last summer, ACM posted PDF versions of some books in its Classic Books Series. The books are accessible to anyone who
creates a free ACM Web Account. The books include:- Aho and Ullman: The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling
- Apple: Macintosh human interface guidelines
- Brinch Hansen: Operating system principles
- Brinch Hansen: The architecture of concurrent programs
- Codd: The relational model for database management
- Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare: Structured programming
- Denning: Cryptography and data security
- Goldberg and Robson: Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
- Hoare and Jones: Essays in computing science
- Hopcroft and Ulman: Formal languages and their relation to automata
- IBM: IBM system/360 principles of operation
- Papert: Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
Via Dusty Decks
- Smartest players on the field
Ben Fry analyzes the data from an intelligence test administered to all incoming NFL players and displays the results by position. Offensive tackles are the smartest players on the field.
- Petabytes
You can’t have my latest copy of Wired but if you forgot how great Wired Magazine could be, check out issue 16.07. The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn’t Just More – More Is Different with a series of awesome articles about what happens when you start analyzing massive amounts of data or visualizing it.
- CIX – Canadian Innovation Exchange
If you are coming to CIX (Canadian Innovation Exchange), come say hello.
I am on the Canadian Innovation Success Stories panel and will be around.CIX is being held in Toronto on April 29th-30th. Participants include a mix of (Canadian and US) VCs, angel investors and some of Canada’s greatest entrepreneurs. This is a great opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs, pitch, see pitches (great line up of presenting companies) and check out the innovation and entrepreneurship landscape in Toronto!
You can register to attend here and the full details of my panel is below:
Canadian Innovation Success Stories
Tuesday April 29th
14:50 – 15:45
Carlu Concert Hall, 444 Yonge Street, TorontoMeet the leader of an innovative company that has made it happen! What
are the key reasons for their success? What adversity did they need to
overcome to succeed and how did they do it? What did they learn along
the way?Host
Ian Portsmouth, Editor & Associate Publisher, PROFIT MagazineSpeakers
Justin Belobaba, Founder & CEO, Medical Telcom Group
Leila Boujnane, Co-Founder & CEO, Idee Inc.
Ron Neumann, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Communitech
Jeremy Wright, CEO, b5mediaThe awesome line up of presenting companies includes:
- Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc., Fonthill, ON
- Acquisio, Saint Lambert, PQ
- Akoha Inc, Montreal, PQ
- Big Deal Games Inc., Toronto, ON
- Blueprint Software Systems, Toronto, ON
- Brainpark, Inc, Toronto, ON
- CellWand Communications, Toronto, ON
- Coveo, Quebec City, PQ
- Digital Payment Technologies Corp., Burnaby, BC
- dthree Inc., Mississauga, ON
- HomeZilla, Toronto, ON
- Kaben Wireless Silicon Inc., Ottawa, ON
- Mobidia, Inc., Vancouver, BC
- Octopz, Toronto, ON
- Planeteye Inc., Toronto, ON
- Redwood Technologies, Calgary, AB
- Spatial View Inc., Toronto, ON
- Standout Jobs, Inc. Montreal, PQ
- Streametrics Corporation Inc., Montreal, PQ
- Amer MacArthur
Amber is a very good friend and I was sad to hear that she had left Rogers. Not surprising to be honest given how little commitment Rogers has shown to the web audiences but that’s another story. Chris Hogg just completed an interview with Amber: Up close and personal. Not to be missed if you want to hear Amber’s story.
- The Future of Ideas
The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. What was responsible for its birth? Who is responsible for its demise?In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect.
and you can find out about the rest here, the book is free to download!
- Watermarking is not a DRM replacement
and if the music industry can’t even understand this then you have to really wonder. From Ars Technica
Watermarking can never really replace
(let alone improve upon) DRM because watermarking is not a so-called
"access control;" it’s an identification technology.
Continue reading…
- Steve Jobs
People are always asking, "What will be the next Macintosh?" My answer still is "I don’t know and I don’t care." An archived Fortune magazine, a good read on the day of MacWorld.
- Following Steve Jobs Keynote at MacWorld
Via Kedrosky: the best blogs and websites to follow Steve Jobs’ keynote tomorrow.
- DIGG
What’s next for Digg – besides and acquisition that is!
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