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Library News & Notes —
June 6, 2008
Internet Sites of the Week
Can Machines Be Conscious?
The Career Employee Bill of Rights
Dymaxion Man
"The visions of Buckminster Fuller."
(Source: SciTechDaily)
Free Wi-Fi launches in Harvard Square
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FriendFeed
"Discover what your friends are sharing"
(Source: Science Library Pad)
Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012
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(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
GPS gadgets can reveal more than your location
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(Source:Science in the News)
How to Become a Grant Reviewer
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Human Travel Patterns Surprisingly Predictable
iBreadCrumbs: a Social Network for Research Sharing
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
Jimmy Wales Reboots His 'Google-Killer'
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(Source: ResourceShelf)
Lawmakers fret over health, safety impacts of nanotechnology
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Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes:
How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Malicious Software (malware): A Security Threat to the Internet Economy
(Source: IEEE Spectrum)
middlespot
"see your search results as screen shots that you zoom and pan like a map"
(Source: OPL Plus)
Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington
(Source: Boing Boing)
Of Two Minds When Making a Decision
(Source: Science in the News)
Post-Microsoft, Libraries Mull Digitization
(Source: Open Access New)
The Reality Tests
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(Source: SciTechDaily)
Research Libraries Embrace E-Books
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(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Revolution in the Stacks
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(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
ShipGooder
"Search for rates from FedEx®, UPS®, DHL®, Purolator®,
the U.S. Postal Service®, Canada Post® and local carriers."
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Thoughtmesh
"an unusual model for publishing and discovering scholarly
papers online. It gives readers a tag-based navigation system that
uses keywords to connect excerpts of essays published on different Web sites."
(Source: PAMNET)
Top 10 Google Flubs, Flops, and Failures
(Source: ResourceShelf)
UChannel
"A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic
institutions all over the world -- for you to view, listen to, stream or download."
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Violent video games - the myths and the facts
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Way Too Much Raised For Bronchitis Research
What comes after silicon?
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What Is Social Shopping?
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See also: 7 Essential Social Shopping Web Sites
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Why do so many Americans have crummy Internet speeds?
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The Wild, Wild Wiki
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Yahoo!, Amazon, and Facebook on the future of the web
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(Source: Library Web)
YouTube offspring create niche sites
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NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received May 31- June 6, 2008
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences |
Gregory, P.C |
(Cambridge, 2005) |
QA 279.5 .G74 2005 c.2 |
M. Burns |
| Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. |
MacKay, David J. C. |
(Cambridge, 2003) |
Q 360 .M23 2003 |
M. Burns |
| Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice |
Gilks, W.R. et al, editors |
(Chapman Hall/CRC, 1998) |
QA 274.7 .M355 1998 |
M. Burns |
| Molecular Modeling of Proteins |
Kukol, Andreas, editor |
(Humana Press, 2008) |
QP 551 .M624 2008 |
J. Parks |
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