Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
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Pinball, War Games, and Universities
One way to drive the flippers and anticipate how the silver pinball of university futures may bounce and move is via war games
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Consumerization of IT and Research
When a corporate, government or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in any way influenced by the computing experiences or opinions of their teenage children. Today,smartphones, social networks, consumer email, cloud services, community software and tools are blurring the…
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Twitter Is Three
Yesterday (March 21, 2009), Twitter, the microblogging service, turned three years old. I’ve been twittering for two years now, watching the evolution of social networking and the nature of the participants.
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Socializing in Cyberspace
My wife has a series of digital photos of me, lost in thought with my smart phone (Treo, Blackberry …) at many of the world’s great wonders.