The National Science Foundation recently posted a Flash-based multimedia presentation titled ” NSF and the Birth of the Internet” that describes the agency’s role in developing the decentralized communication system. Clearly it represents the institutional voice in the internet’s history, but it could provide an interesting learning tool for students or those who lack a [...]
Diana Antunes, a student at the University of Coimbra, was honored earlier this month as an Adobe Design Achievement Awards finalist. The Adobe Design Achievement Awards is a competition of over 2700 students from 33 countries. Antunes created muxicall, a Flash-based site facilitating collaborative musical composition, which was noted in the Browser-based Design Category. Muxicall, [...]
Several University of Texas at Austin students have been accepted into U.Frame, an international film and video festival taking place from October 1-5 in Porto, Portugal. Accepted entries of fiction include Gabriela Yeper’s Danzak, Nazanin Shirazi’s Red Wednesday, Molly Green’s That’s Not Funny, and Sergio Carvajal’s Un dia de anibal. Marianela Vega Oroza’s conversations [...]
Ubiquity or broadband?
I’ve started to analyze our latest data from a few rural regions in the U.S., where small communities recently obtained broadband services. This is a five-year, USDA-funded study that should provide us with some insights about what difference broadband makes in rural areas, a topic that I’ve been writing on over the last five years [...]