Quinn Norton

Biography

Quinn Norton co-writes the ambiguous blog, runs a community co-op server, makes Yixing teapots, and writes about technology. For Quinn, every day is Take your Daughter to Work Day.

Articles

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Grokking Grokster
Publish Date: Jul. 13, 2005On June 27, 2005 the Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court, and remanded the case of MGM v. Grokster back to them. This they did unanimously, based on the opinion that the Ninth Circuit had misinterpreted the Universal Studios v. Sony "Betamax" decision of 1983. Quinn Norton offers some analysis of the Grokster decision, looks at what companies may be next in line for litigation, and whether or not the decision did much to answer the great outstanding questions of copyright in the digital age. O'Reilly and Adaptive Path Team Up for Ajax Summit
Publish Date: May. 12, 2005Earlier this week, O'Reilly Media and Adaptive Path teamed up for a summit on Ajax. While new web technologies like Google Maps and Flickr have embraced Ajax, technically no part of Ajax is truly new; its youngest piece is more than five years old. So why are Adaptive Path and O'Reilly Media excited enough to have a summit? Find out what the fuss is all about in this report from Quinn Norton. The State of Computer-Human Interaction
Publish Date: Apr. 14, 2005From the practical experiments and reports on the cutting edge of UI design to the crazier ideas, like the paper on an edible positive-feedback UI for programmers, CHI 2005 offered attendees plenty of meaty topics to sink their collective teeth into. Quinn Norton reports on CHI 2005, the annual meeting of the Association for Computer Machinery's special interest group on Computer-Human Interaction. RoboGames 2005
Publish Date: Mar. 31, 2005Matchbox-size autonomous sumo bots, 350-pound combat robots, improvised LEGO Mindstorms mix-ins, complex firefighters, daring ribbon climbers, and more all converged--with their human counterparts--on San Francisco recently for the 2005 RoboGames. Quinn Norton reports on what went on, and what robotics enthusiasts learned from rubbing elbows with each other for a weekend.

Blog

Synthetic Biology: The conclusion of the very beginning

February 06 2008

Note: This ends Quinn Norton's five-part series on Drew Endy and synthetic biology. The earlier installments are Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask, The dummy's guide to engineering genes, Play God for... read more

Synthetic Biology: The conclusion of the very beginning

February 05 2008

Managing the unimaginable future

February 05 2008

Note: This is the fourth of Quinn Norton's five-part series on Drew Endy and synthetic biology. The earlier installments are Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask, The dummy's guide to engineering genes,... read more

Play God for fun and profit (mostly fun)

February 05 2008

Note: This is the third of Quinn Norton's five-part series on Drew Endy and synthetic biology. The earlier installments are Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask and The dummy's guide to engineering... read more

The dummy's guide to engineering genes

February 05 2008

Note: Yesterday we began Quinn Norton's five-part series on Drew Endy and synthetic biology with "Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask." Photo courtesy of Mike & Amanda Knowles, via flickr. Dr. Drew... read more

Managing the unimaginable future

February 04 2008

Play God for fun and profit (mostly fun)

February 01 2008

The dummy's guide to engineering genes

January 31 2008

Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask

January 30 2008

One of the great pleasures of being involved with O'Reilly Media is learning from the many fascinating people who get involved with the company on one level or another. They're Friends of O'Reilly, or Foos. We have occasional get-togethers with... read more