Thomas Narten
is a member of the ICANN board representing the IETF a group he served
as an area director. He works for IBM.
(from a 1989 article)
Explosive growth is taxing current Internet routing
mechanisms. New sites continue to join the Internet
on a daily basis, and sites add new links to destinations
with which they desire better connectivity. In some
sense, the Internet is a victim of its own success; many
routing protocols are being used in environments for
which they had not been designed.
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Mark Webbink
is a visiting professor of law at Duke and
executive director of the Center for Patent
Innovations at New York Law School; he was formerly the Senior Vice President and General
Counsel at Red Hat.
(from a 2005 Interview)
Well, you know, there's the world we live in and the world I'd like us to live in. The world I'd like to see us live in would never have allowed patents on software in the first place. You already had copyright protection. There's no other area of art that gets both copyright and patent protection. Software is the only one.
And if software is so doggone unique as to require the characteristics of both of those, perhaps software is unique enough that it deserves its own system of protection.
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Luis von Ahn
is assistant professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, a
Macarthur Fellow, a Microsoft New Faculty Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and a
Duke class of 2000 Math major.
(from a 2009 blog post)
Given the number of people working in computer science and the fact that
publishing papers is considered the goal of our work, there is an insane
number of papers written every year, the vast majority of which
contribute very little (or not at all) to our collective knowledge. This
is basically spam. In fact, for many papers (including some of my own),
the actual idea of the paper could be stated in one paragraph, but
somehow people manage to write 10 pages of it.
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Ge Wang
is assistant professor at the Center for Computer
Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford, co-founder
CTO, and Chief Creative Officer
of Smule, and a Duke class of 2000
Computer Science major;
he holds a PhD in Computer Science from
Princeton University.
Ge is the creator and chief architect of the ChucK audio
programming language, and is the founding director of the Stanford
Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
(MoPhO).
(from a 2009 loopblog interview)
You know to tell the truth when starting Smule we didn't know what we
were going to do. We still don't. The golden quote that has been
adopted by many of us is, "If we knew what we were doing, it would not
be research." It is the "Smulean" way.
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Annie Antón
is professor of Computer Science at NC State University and founder and
director of ThePrivacyPlace.org
(from a 2007 article in CACM)
Information technology advances are making Internet and Web-based system
use the common choice in many application domains, ranging from business
to health care to scientific collaboration and distance
learning. However, adoption is slowed by well-founded concerns about
privacy, especially given that data collected about individuals is being
combined with information from other sources and analyzed by powerful
tools (such as data mining tools).
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Christopher Poole aka moot
is the founder of 4chan.org and was
voted Time Magazine's most influential person for 2008 in an Internet
poll.
(from a February 2009
interview)
One of the most interesting things about 4chan is that nothing gets
archived. Threads disappear within an hour. It's a contradiction --
4chan is known for creating memes, yet it's designed for them to die so
quickly.
The lack of retention lends itself to having fresh content. The joke is
that a 4chan post is a repost of a repost of a repost. There was a guy who
was downloading every image from /b/. He calculated that 80 percent of
what's posted has been posted before. So it's survival of the
fittest. Ideas that are carried over to the next day are worth
repeating. The things that are genuinely funny get carried over.
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Sarah Cohen
is the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy
at Duke, a former reporter and database editor at the Washington Post,
winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, and the winner in 2009 of the
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
(from an interview in 2009 in visualization in reporting)
If you have the skill and time, consider learning how to make
interactive graphics as reporting tools. They are particularly effective
at this stage because they satisfy our natural desire to dig deeper into
anything that we see. But they also help get a jump-start on moving
online with a finished graphic. Most websites use Flash, though others
will consider graphics produced using plain HTML or javascript or PHP.
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Landon Cox
is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Duke and a Duke
undergraduate, class of 1999. He is the recipient
of an NSF Career Award as well as several other NSF grants.
He decribes his work as follows:
I have been working on cooperative distributed systems, mobile
computing, and operating systems, with a focus on privacy
and incentives.
The following words and phrases have appeared in different papers
he has written in the last five years:
JellyNets,
Grocery Bargain Hunting, We Saw Each Other in the
Subway, and
TightLip.
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