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Grokking Grokster Publish Date: Jul. 13, 2005
On 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, 2005
Earlier 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, 2005
From 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, 2005
Matchbox-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.
