Category Archives: Internet

Google Books Library Project

Posted on January 3, 2012 by PlatoHagel

What’s the goal of this project? The Library Project’s aim is simple: make it easier for people to find relevant books – specifically, books they wouldn’t find any other way such as those that are out of print – while … Continue reading →

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Neural Connections?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Wiki Growth Over Time  This is a project conducted by ChrisDavis and IgorNikolic to visualize the growth of wiki.tudelft.nl since its beginning in late 2004. Since then, it has grown to over 10,000 pages, and is now part of the … Continue reading →

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Freedom Box

Posted on August 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

FreedomBox v Facebook – Eben Moglen from Nick B-T on Vimeo.  *** Freedom Box Project Inspired by Eben Moglen’s vision of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home. We are building a Debian based platform … Continue reading →

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Subcarrier-Index Modulation OFDM

Posted on August 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Do you know that we have 1.4 million cellular radio masts deployed worldwide? And these are base stations. And we also have more than five billion of these devices here. These are cellular mobile phones. And with these mobile phones, … Continue reading →

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CERN brings hardware into the open

Posted on July 17, 2011 by PlatoHagel

It good to see great minds think alike?:) The Open Hardware Repository was inspired by the success of open-source software. (Image courtesy CERN.) Hardware and software go hand in hand – one doesn’t work without the other. Despite being so … Continue reading →

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My Hat’s Off too: Open Hardware Movement

Posted on July 10, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Sir Tim, creator of the World Wide Web, pointed to open data and linked data as exciting examples of the way that the Web is promoting transparency of information and looked forward to the time when the current 20 per … Continue reading →

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Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Bruce Gilden/Magnum, for The New York Times On Jan. 21, 1993, the television talk-show host Larry King featured an unexpected guest on his program. It was the evening after Inauguration Day in Washington, and the television audience tuned in expecting … Continue reading →

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Web Science

Posted on May 29, 2011 by PlatoHagel

  See:Creating a Science of the Web The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to…understand what the Web is engineer its future ensure its social benefit …we need a new … Continue reading →

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Community Broadband Networks

Posted on May 25, 2011 by PlatoHagel

So here’s the plan. The CRTC made it’s decision…..but we can change that. Municipal television networks? Do we need the integration of big Telecom or can local TV stations newly formed become part of the expression on a international stage … Continue reading →

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Broadband in a Full Democracy

Posted on May 16, 2011 by PlatoHagel

White space in telecommunications refers to unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. National and international bodies assign differing frequencies for specific uses, and in some cases license the rights to these. This frequency allocation process … Continue reading →

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