Tuesday, July 27, 2004

The Degree Confluence Project

Now, why would anyone want to do this? I think of it as do-it-yourself geography!

posted by S. Keshav @ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 0 comments  

Bell labs revisited...

Here is an article in the Economist about early days at Bell Labs, where both C and Unix were invented. I remember the day I first set foot in the labs in 1989, as a summer intern, and I saw the names on the office doors. I could barely restrain myself from bowing low in homage to these software gods who walked among us mortals. After my graduation from Berkeley, I had the honor of working at the labs for five years, but I left when the labs fell apart in 1996, with the split of AT&T into three smaller companies. Today, the lab is just a hollow shell and almost all of the researchers who gave it its soul have left (mostly for Google!)

posted by S. Keshav @ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 0 comments  

Friday, July 09, 2004

Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption

Here is a project whose goals are complementary to the MindStream project. Unlike our work, where we are focussing on transient connectivity, the ISR work is relevant when mobiles will spend significant amounts of time in a hotspot. Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption: "'It is the simple ideas,' he added, 'that change the world.'"

posted by S. Keshav @ Friday, July 09, 2004 0 comments