With Richard Garriott making headlines for his trip to the International Space Station, readers may be interested in learning more about his past. Last Fall, veteran video game executive Warren Spector invited several industry luminaries to come to UT to speak in his video game master class.
Video podcasts of several of the sessions are now [...]
The Free Software Foundation and the GNU suite of applications celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. To commemorate the anniversary, British comedian Stephen Fry appears in this video, titled, “Happy Birthday to GNU”, which also provides a nice introduction to the principles behind Free Software. (I came across this on Larry Lessig’s blog.) For more [...]
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 [...]