Virtual Book Markers Needed for Digital Library and E-Book Initiatives by Lance Winslow
Have you ever read a book online and felt compelled to keep on reading even though you did not have the time because you did not want to lose your place? This is actually a serious problem for people who like to read books online. Not everyone likes to read books online because it kind of... Once you get to the digital library you start perusing a book and decide you want to read a chapter or two, but then in an invariably something comes up in your life and you have to stop what you're doing and stop reading.

Create Your Own Digital Library by Jelaine Macaraeg
The moment you got your first digital camera, your view of the world has totally changed. You always seem to see something beautiful or artistic in your surroundings, worthy of being captured in pixels. You experiment quite a lot and keep on loading your pictures in your computer. ... It’s called the Microsoft Digital Image Suite 9, which actually consists of two imaging applications – MS Digital Image Library 9, which serves as your database of digital images and MS Digital Image Pro 9, which is a photo manipulation program.

Motion Capture - What and How by Y.H. Lee
What is Motion Capture (MoCap)? Why use Motion Capture? Why use Inner Esteem Motion Capture Library? What are the technologies used? How do we capture the motion/ performance? What is Motion Capture (MoCap)? Motion capture, also known as Performance Capture, is a technique of digitally recording... We own an extensive library of stock motion data for you to choose from, which will help in your project development, whether you need just a few moves or do not have time to do a whole shoot. ... We use the latest digital imaging technologies to fully take advantage of the recent advances in...

"Who Are You?" "I am You" said the Artificial Intelligent Super Computer Collective by Lance Winslow
Not long ago, The Online Think Tank started a project to determine how the supercomputers in and artificial intelligence computers of the future would run the world governments of mankind. Does it not make sense for a supercomputer with artificial intelligence to be in power and entrusted with... It would have to have its memory banks filled with all the written recorded history of mankind and all the digital libraries, as well as the entire Internet within. ... The tentacles on the concept map would go on infinitely and always be constantly programming itself through the help of the minds...

2007 Future Technology and Trends to Watch For by Lance Winslow
What will be the biggest news and trends in 2007? What are some of the technologies we should watch? What can we expect and what should we be keeping an eye on these days? Well not long ago our Online Think Tank considered this subject and it was deemed that the list of trends was growing and it... This project took about 500 man hours and still one has to wonder if it is complete, as there are always new things on the horizon which pop up every day in the realms of science and technology and world events.

Flash Drives -- Rugged Convenient Productivity Boosters by Samuel Mela
USB Flash Drives are arguably the handiest computer storage device ever invented. They are so small they can hang off a key chain or be embedded into an ink pen. Yet they can easily hold 2 gigabytes or more of data – roughly the equivalent of 1500 floppy disks. ... If you are doing a project that involves a very large number of read/write operations to mass storage it may be best to copy your project from flash drive onto the computer's hard drive, do your work, and then copy your project back to the Flash Drive again.

Lotus Notes Domino and Web: Application Development – Tips for Programmers by Polina Gottmann
Beginning with Domino version R4 it has integration with the Web, and the server itself becomes a HTTP-server. The next releases of Domino Web-server add new functionality (for example servlet managers, supported JVM versions upgrade, etc). To give you general picture and abstracting from... The standard authentication, authorization, coding, digital signatures, etc. ... Summarizing the own and my colleagues experience in Domino Web-design field, I can recommend the following: • Before creation of Web-project on Domino it is necessary to evaluate the whole Domino infrastructure in frame...

What's the Fuss over FOSS? by Chin Wong
What’s the fuss over FOSS? IN an industry where acronyms are de rigueur, it seemed inevitable that an old computing concept would get a new name. Last November at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (which goes by its own unwieldy acronym WSIS), FOSS was on everyone’s lips... “The Codebreakers,” a BBC documentary in May 2006, shows how different countries have used FOSS to narrow the digital divide. ... In 1991, Torvalds released a kernel that used libraries and tools developed by the GNU project and released it on the Internet, inviting feedback and help from other...

History of End User Programming by Peter Hale
1960s In the 1960s Dartmouth BASIC programming language [7] was designed and implemented at Dartmouth College by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Over time BASIC became a popular language for home users, and business use, it introduced many people to programming as a hobby or career. ... Douglas Engelbert's worked on a project to augment the human intellect, as part of the Augment [8] project he demonstrate Hypertext and video conferencing. ... The Programmer's Apprentice - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=87912&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE - The ACM Digital Library.

Report onthe Growth & Economic Impact of the IT Industry 1940-2010 by Annie McCormick
The U.S. Information Technology Industry 1940-2000 Summary All segments that comprise the information technology industry (computers, telecommunications, and software and services) have played a major role in the transformation of the U.S. economy. The computer was commercially introduced in the... The digital home concept - devices in the home sharing digital media across a home network - has been around for some time. ... Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) started a program to develop communication protocols that would allow computers to communicate across linked packet...