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On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

This site clarifies US copyright law (if that is possible). Of particular interest is the 1923-1963 category where works would have passed into the public domain if the copyright was not renewed. The difficulty is in knowing if it was or not.

Winona State study from 2008 on laptop usage and its reception by students and faculty.

I found this really interesting about Africa's media and publishing classified information.

1958 interview with Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. 

Final article choice for assignment on final project plan

A 2nd article for homework on Egypt & twitter revolution

a comparison of phone usage in the US and Japan, two societies that are believed to have contrast ideology of society, come up with a similar trend of new technology using...

The research shows that the internet use via mobile phone actually INCREASE the interaction between family members and relatives in Japan, which is contrast to what we thought it should be...