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UMBC ebiquity research blog
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/
EBB is the ebiquity research group's blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea.
Recent Posts
Stanford AI pioneers reunite
Today’s NYT has a short essay by John Markoff, Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite, on a recent reunion of researchers from the early days of the Stanford AI Laboratory....
MIT team finds 10 red balloons, wins DARPA network challenge
Game over. DARPA has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the DARPA Network Challenge and its $40,000 prize. The MIT team received the prize for being the first entrant to identify the locations of all ten red balloons. The MIT team...
MySpace in the digital Cambrian period
Financial Times has a long article describing the The rise and fall of MySpace. It’s a story full of bad timing, missed opportunities, suits vs. geeks, personalities, and, I suppose, random chance events. I hope at least a few fossils from our...
Visualizing social media use in 16 countries
Trendstream’s Global Web Index has a visualization, Global Map of Social Web, that shows the uptake of different social media systems in 16 countries around the world. Full size pdf It’s a little busy, but it overlays a lot of informati...
Twitter API enables geotagging
Twitter turned on its API for geotagging tweets yesterday, as announce in in a post on their blog, Think Globally, Tweet Locally. Currently, geographic information will only be associated with your tweets if you use an application that adds it and ...
XKCD on the difference between academia and business
