I had a post earlier called: Science to 2.0. It is about the web2.0 tools’ impact on scientific research from a journalist in Scientific America. Now I have some thoughts on my own. Question 1: why should we publish? Typically in science, you do your research and you need to communicate your results with audience. [...]

February 04, 2008 Source: http://www.ddj.com/206103622 2007 Turing Award Winners Announced For their groundbreaking work on Model Checking Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis are the recipients of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award for their work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. The method, called Model [...]

Origin of Ruan*, Yuen*, Nguyen* (Vietnamese) Famous People in History Descendents of Ben Tao were rewarded the Ruan kingdom (south east of Jing Chuan in Gansu Province). The Ruan kingdom was eliminated by Zhou Wen Wang during the Shang Dynasty and its people began to bear the last name of Ruan. Another origin of Ruan [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs published some thoughts on music on feb 2007: see here. The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell [...]