I’m really looking forward to CodeMash. The slate of speakers and topics looks fantastic; It’s really nice to look at a conference schedule and see a lot of topics that are totally new to me. One thing I’m curious about is Scala. I’ve been working with a research group lately Read more »
Category Archives: Information Sciences
Art Imitates My Life: Mapping Networks
I recently started on a research project on network visualization, particularly how it pertains to attacks and intrusions. I was surprised today to see that the creator of one of my favorite net comic strips, xkcd, did a Map of the Internet. I’m not familiar with the fractal mapping technique Read more »
Better Web Indexing with Sitemaps
Google and Yahoo! have apparently gotten together and penned a new standard way to provide metadata on Web site architecture to search engines. Details are at sitemaps.org. The nice thing about using a content managment system is that it will be child’s play to generate this for our college Web Read more »
Fighting Email Harvesting
I stumbled upon this in a Slashdot thread: http://www.projecthoneypot.org It’s a project to fight email address harvesting by spammers. I think this is the first project I’ve seen where legal recourse is actually a component of the strategy.
Quote of the Day
From a Slashdot signature file: “Information wants to be anthropomorphized.” Here’s some related reading…