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My few examples above are all fundamentally human questions—fit as much for a Shakespeare play as for a physics textbook. I suspect Beranek, now 93, vividly recalled his mentor’s words because they are universally applicable—useful for building a circuit, teasing out...

Author: By Venkatesh "VENKY" Narayanamurti | Title: Coming Up With Diamonds | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

That's what happens when you create a successful platform: a virtuous circle blooms, with a mass of users attracting a horde of developers who build fun or useful stuff, which in turn pulls in even more users. Needless to say, there are some pretty worthless and annoying applications too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Rule the New Internet? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

"Google has relied on an open Internet to make its entire business," he tells me. "It has a genetic predisposition for openness." That's partly because Google's core business, search, depends on openness. Google can't find the things you want on the Web - documents, music, images and so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Rule the New Internet? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

“An act for the encouragement of learning,” read the original copyright statute, signed into law by George Washington in 1790. The Constitution stated the act’s single purpose: “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.?...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis | Title: Copyright Harvard 2008 | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

“The whole point is that it’s supposed to be an educational experience,” Razon said. “While it’s nice that PBHA is letting me do these things, they want to challenge me to do things that are...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PBHA Creates Public Service Czar | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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