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Mobile from Georgia Tech
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
I’m attending a conference at the Georgia Tech Electronic Design Center in Atlanta this week – and will bring you a few links on topics and sessions of interest.
3D FROM 2D
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Todays Sessions
Photonic Integrated Circuits Indium Phosphide
Big Lab at Ga Tech – Cingular and Siemens for IMS
IP based Multimedia System
Left in Early 90′s
DR Kish 1 hour overview of optical transport.
10 channels each 10 Gb/sec
40 channels each 40 Gb/sec
Quick Summary
Heard market had disappeared after the bubble- not true
Taken years to work off inventory
Moores law doubles every 2.2 years
IP CAGR is 75-100%
100Gb/sec Ethernet very soon
IMS – IP Multimedia Subsystem
Ga Tech leading lab in roll out of new cell phone apps-
IMS is a standards based 3GPP and SIP – location, presence,
Merges cellphone and internet
Thoughts on IMS
Fun multimedia stuff until
Do it on various screens,devices
Battery life
Chopping in and out of cells
How much chatter
Engineering challenge
Vaguely troubling – walled garden apps
Internet – online freedom to put up app and business model-
Web Surfing in Public Places Is A Way to Court Trouble
NY times agrees
Spoken several times
This trip – trusty PublicVPN.com
Thumb drive with U3 – if I want to use hotel lobby PC. Apps and data on the drive
Thieves Find Cemetery of Pharaoh’s Dentists
important archaeological find from Egypt
Good story – grave robbers
Curse- eaten by a crocodile and a snake
4,000 years to the 5th Dynasty and were meant to honor a chief dentist and two others who treated the pharaohs and their families,
services were in demand by the powerful, the dentists likely did not share in their wealth.
only 30 percent of what lies hidden beneath the sands has been uncovered.
Trial Monday in Phila
Passed in 1998 but never enforced -continuous court challenge
“ decide whether operators of Web sites can be jailed and fined for not blocking children’s access to materials deemed “harmful” to them.
DOJ has argued that the law is constitutional and that commercial filters alone aren’t effective.
ACLU argues the law would be ineffective. It would not protect children from Web sites based outside the U.S., and it would not apply to noncommercial sites or to instant messaging, peer-to-peer file sharing, chat rooms or e-mail.
COPA 2
Ineffective law, taxpayer money
Court battle
Now take note of how many campaign commercials you have seen
“Fought in Washington to pass a law protecting our childrenâ€
Maybe “matrix screen saver in backgroundâ€
Pass a law – make them stop that
Just like can spam and phone solicitors
Did you notice that do not call lists exempt politicians ?
Ipod Turns 5: Hack for a present
DVD Jon cracks FairPlay DRM, noted in Money Magazine
Jon Lech Johansen was 15 when he led the hacker team for To fix the problem, he and two hackers he met online wrote a program called DeCSS,
Double Twist
the songs Apple sells at its iTunes store cannot easily be played on other devices, and copy-protected songs purchased from other sites will not play on the iPod.
DoubleTwist points to a sheet of printer paper tacked on the wall that has a typed quote Jobs gave the Wall Street Journal in 2002: “If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.” As Johansen sees it, Jobs didn’t follow through on this promise, so it’s up to him to fix the system.
Embryonic Stem Cells
Parkinsons cure, but almost 100% brain tumor side effects.
Univ of Rochester, NY
scientists have always known that any stem cell therapy could result in an uncontrolled growth of cells that could give rise to cancer.”
“Neither gene therapy nor stem cells are ready for primetime,”
SDR You Tube
Real Treat from Del.icio.us
Geometrically Coherent Image Interpretation.
3D from 2D
Children’s pop out book castle or monster
Software download for non-commercial use
What comes after ?â€
Business Week speculates
Venice Project, by the founders of Skype
150 YouTube video-sharing clones Venice Project streaming long videos of nearly high-definition-TV
media and TV companies ad-supported channels for full-length, professional content.
BT is the key
BitTorrent’s transformation- the company has signed licensing agreements with around 20 media companies, including Warner Bros. to sell movies and TV shows at prices starting at $1 apiece.
BitTorrent software on DVRs, cable boxes, and wireless routers, enabling BitTorrent to link up to the net and download legal movies or TV shows to PCs and TVs.
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