Category Archives: Research

Welcome to IR13.0

By alex | Published: 10/10/2012

Here’s my welcome letter for the IR13.0 program(me): I have always considered 13 a lucky number, and I feel particularly lucky that we have the opportunity to come back to the United Kingdom for IR13.0. I recently moved to a new house, and in the process ran across a T-shirt from the first IR conference […]

Posted in Research | Tagged Ben Light, Feona Attwood, Internet Research conference, Internet Time, Lori Kendall, Michael Zimmer, Minneapolis, networked information technologies, Salford, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

The Coming Gaming Machine, 1975-1985

By alex | Published: 7/13/2012

Was going through old backups in the hope of finding some stuff I’ve lost and I ran into this, a draft I was working on around the turn of the millennium. Never went anywhere, and was never published. I was just pressing delete, when I realized it might actually be of interest to someone. It […]

Posted in Research | Tagged A. Richard Immel, Andrew Pollack, Arcade games, Atari, BASIC, Broderbund, Business Partnership, communication device, computer software, computer technology, Computing, console systems, Creative Computing, Donald A. Thomas, Douglas Carlston, Douglas Englebart, Douglas G. Carlston, eBay, educational products, Electronic Games, Electronics, game designer, Gaming computer, Home computer, home computing, home-based laserdisc systems, Information Society, Jack M. Nilles, Ken Uston, large-scale on-line gaming, large-scale scientific computing, laserdisc technology, Lucasfilm, machinery, Magnavox, Martin Campbell-Kelly, McGraw-Hill, media appliances, Microsoft, MIT, Mitchell C. Lynch, Movie Release, multiplayer on-line role playing, Multiplayer video game, networked computing, New York, New York Times, Nolan Bushnell, Odyssey, Odyssey system, Otto Friedrich, PDA, persistent on-line worlds, Personal computer game, personal computing, Playstation 2, Pong, portable gaming technologies, Prentice-Hall, Ralph Baer, Ralph Lombreglia, RAM, Seattle, Sim City, single gaming author, software industry, Stanford, Steve Russel, telephone distribution, telephone networks, television gaming devices, The Last Starfighter, Toronto Star, Tron, United States, University of California at Irvine, Video game, Video game conversion, Wadsworth Publishing, Wall Street Journal, WarGames, Warner Communications, Washington Post, William Aspray, William Higinbotham, Xerox | 2 Comments

Research Universities and the Future of America

By alex | Published: 7/4/2012

In case you haven’t seen this yet… This is one of those cases where fostering the elite is a good thing. Nothing wrong with funding community colleges or making tuition at four-year institutions more reasonable, but we are systematically undermining our country both economically and culturally by undercutting our large research universities. All hail the […]

Also posted in Teaching | Tagged higher education, innovation, mooc, Research, universities, Video | Leave a comment

The Privacy Trade Myth

By alex | Published: 6/6/2012

Cory Doctorow has a new essay in Technology Review entitled “The Curious Case of Internet Privacy”. He begins by outlining the idea of “the trade” an idea he rightly suggests has risen to the level of myth. “The trade” is simply that you are permitted to use a system like Facebook for free, and in […]

Also posted in Technology | Tagged Criticism of Facebook, Daiyuzan Saijyouji temple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Identity management, Internet Privacy, Online social networking, Privacy, Social information processing, Social issues, social network, Technology Review, Tengu, twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment

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