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Garage Universities

By alex | Published: 9/25/2013

I am wary of playing too much into the Silicon Valley myth, and nothing can be more central to that myth than the garage start-up. Nonetheless, the idea of a “university start-up” seems almost unfathomable, outside the less-than-interesting world of for-profit universities. I may want to buy a Tesla (automobile start-ups probably pre-date the Silicon […]

Posted in Policy & Politics, Teaching | Also tagged e - commerce, Facebook, Garage Universities, LinkedIn, microcredential infrastructure, Paypal, Reid Hoffman, social media, social networks, Tesla, twitter | 2 Comments

Getting Glass

By alex | Published: 4/17/2013

Google selected me as one of (the many) Google “Glass Explorers”, thanks to a tweet I sent saying how I would use Google Glass, namely: #ifihadglass I’d find myself in the shoes of Vannevar Bush’s walnut-wearing (social) scientist, & I’d remember the names of my students :). — halavais (@halavais) February 21, 2013 What this […]

Posted in Research, Teaching, Technology | Also tagged #ifihadglass, Android, bluetooth, class management, Computing, Google, Google Glass, Human-computer interaction, Internet, L.A., personal technology, programmer, Project Glass, Python, scientist, World Wide Web | 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 | Also 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, 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

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 […]

Posted in Research, Technology | Also tagged Criticism of Facebook, Daiyuzan Saijyouji temple, 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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