Archive for November, 2008

University Piracy Measures

November 19th, 2008

The issue of online piracy, particularly in relation to music downloads, has been a persistent one for Universities. Student participation can be problematic as illustrated by the bizarre case brought against American student Jesse Jordan in 2002.
Jordan, an information technology student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, built a search engine for the RPI network […]

Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

November 3rd, 2008

It is difficult to believe that the web has become such an integral part of our society within the relatively short space of 5,000 days. Since its inception in 1991 we have become increasingly dependant on it and still the technology is snowballing at a colossal rate.
If like me you are interested in where we […]