* TWAS honors two researchers with membership status Nov 14, 2008
Lee Der-tsai (w]), a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinicas Institute of Information Science, was elected a TWAS member because of his focus on the areas of design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, VLSI layout and systems, bioinformatics, digital libraries, software security, Web- based computing and algorithm visualization. Meanwhile, two other Taiwanese scientists, Shaw Jei-fu () and Lin Chun-hung (LT), were honored with the 2008 TWAS Prize in... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Dell Jump-Starts Digital Libraries with Pre-Installed Movies Powered by CinemaNow Oct 24, 2008
Movie Bundles include Spider-Man, The Matrix, and Children's pack starting at $25. ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Dell and CinemaNow teamed to provide a simple, economical way to jump-start a digital music library by pre-loading movie bundles on select new systems purchased on Dell. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Dell Teams with Universal Music Group to Jump-Start Digital Libraries with Pre-Loaded MP3 Music Oct 24, 2008
-- Individuals Will Now Be Able to Choose Various Music Bundles While Purchasing Select New PCs on Dell. -- Exclusive 50 and 100-Song Music Bundles Starting at $25. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Children's Books about Libraries Oct 13, 2008
The Library Book covers the variety of forms used to record ideas and information, beginning with scrolls and the first library formed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia and concluding with information about digital libraries such as The African Digital Library and the Dunhuang Project. The Library Book focuses on some of the more interesting and unusual aspects of the history of books and libraries, engaging readers with brief snapshots of history and an informal writing style. (Suite101.com)
Blind Reading Resource Roundup Sep 11, 2008
Online services helping vision and print-impaired readers capture and process information range from interactive Talking Book exhibits to 100,000-volume digital libraries. The Internet and the digital age has made information far more flexible an especially vital efficiency for the blind, whose computer screens can easily enlarge text, translate print into braille, or read electronic texts aloud. (Suite101.com)
Hansen's Sno-Blog Aug 11, 2008
King is working toward an Information Studies master's degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where she's specializing in digital libraries and online collections. King likes to make mock Web sites "for practice," she said, and last summer she arbitrarily decided to create a Web site for Hansen's. (Nola.com -- Sports)
iTunes Canada adds movies Jun 5, 2008
"The music market was propelled forward by the ability to rip your CDs legally and create robust digital libraries, but that's just not the case with movies," said Yankee Group analyst Josh Martin. "It's illegal to rip movies it's challenging and they take up a lot of room.". (Globe and Mail)
A New Web Site Brings Space Down to Earth May 15, 2008
Gray, who won the prestigious Turing Award for work on database and transaction processes, started working a decade ago with researchers in astronomy, oceanography, and environmental monitoring to create digital libraries for their work. In 2001, Gray and Alex Szalay, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, developed SkyServer, a site that publish the images from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Sloan Digital Sky Survey. (KFOR Oklahoma City, OK)
Textbooks not outdated just yet Apr 23, 2008
There is a database compiled by the National Science Foundation called the National Science Digital Libraries, which is collecting and archiving information compiled by the Journal of Chemical Education. "There is only sufficient material there to cover physical chemistry" but not for more general courses, Pienta said. (Daily Iowan, IA)
New X-FAB 0.18 Micrometer Process Maximizes Cost-Effectiveness in Analog/Mixed-Signal Chip Design for Commercial Automotive and Power Management Applications Apr 8, 2008
The process also comes with support for X-FAB digital libraries with gate densities up to 115K gates per square millimeter. Analog standard cell libraries, currently in development, will be released later this year. (BusinessWire)
Planners split on SummerHill's Elks project Mar 15, 2008
City governments need to begin to push e-books and digital libraries instead of brick-and-mortar buildings of the past. Posted by The Future Is Digital, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 8 hours ago. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Taming the data deluge with the new open source iRODS data grid system Feb 21, 2008
iRODS is an innovative data grid system that incorporates and moves beyond ten years of experience in developing the widely used Storage Resource Broker (SRB) technology, said Reagan Moore, director of the DICE group at SDSC. iRODS equips users to handle the full range of distributed data management needs, from extracting descriptive metadata and managing their data to moving it efficiently, sharing data securely with collaborators, publishing it in digital libraries, and finally archiving... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
In Microsoft vs. Google, search is true prize Feb 6, 2008
"Microsoft and Google are both building libraries and the way you get the books off the shelves at these digital libraries is through their search engine. Their search engine is an electronic librarian," Sullivan said. "The battle shouldn't be over getting the books, the battle should be over who is building the best librarian.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Apple Embraces Movie Rental Business Dec 28, 2007
MGM, Lionsgate, Viacom, and Paramount restrict their digital libraries to older titles. However, the Fox deal could open the floodgates for new release rentals. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000RE Delivers NASA Connectivity Across University of Alabama System Regional Optical Network Oct 8, 2007
UAS-RON is part of a global rollout of optical networks that have provided the research-and-education community with many powerful new services including grid computing, shared virtual reality, virtual laboratories, digital libraries, digital video and much more,'' said Brian P. McCann, chief marketing and strategy officer with ADVA Optical Networking. To support new services, the organizations involved in this project require the latest optical-networking innovations. (Primezone Releases)
New AOL service will house all your digital libraries Sep 18, 2007
Anick Jesdanun Associated Press Sept. 17, 2007 04:08 PM. NEW YORK - AOL wants to become your digital warehouse. (AZCentral -- Business)
Sony studying possibility of providing movie download service Sep 5, 2007
Last week, Sony revealed a new Walkman video player that comes with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player 11 that is capable of managing digital libraries in the U.S. and Europe. The LCD-mounted players, which will also be compatible with MPEG-4 encoded video and AVC, are already available in Japan. (Globe and Mail)
Sony to Close Web Music Store, Unveils Digital... Aug 31, 2007
Sony said that the new Walkman video players will ship with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player 11 to manage digital libraries. "With this initiative, Sony is debuting an important option for digital media players as it opens new doors for a rich digital experience," said Dave Wascha, director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft Corp.. (Fox News)
Sony shuttering Connect music store and ditching proprietary audio format Aug 31, 2007
Sony said that the new Walkman video players would ship with Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11 to manage digital libraries. . (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
New search engine ranks tables by title, document content, text reference Aug 10, 2007
The researchers chose to focus on PDF documents because of their growing popularity in digital libraries and because PDF documents had been overlooked in other table-search efforts ... Information on TableSeer can be found in a paper, "TableSeer: Automatic Table Metadata Extraction and Searching in Digital Libraries," by Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Mitra and Giles of the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. (EurekAlert!)
Ghanaian Universities and the World Universities Rankings Jun 29, 2007
According to the administrators of WEBOMETRICS (web appearance assessment), the WEBOMETRICS ranking is measuring the volume, visibility and impact of the web pages published by universities, with special emphasis on scientific output (referred papers, conference contributions, pre-prints, monographs, thesis, reports) but also taking into account other materials (course work, seminars or workshops, documentation, digital libraries, databases, multimedia, personal pages) and the general... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Convert Your CDs to a Digital Music Library in a Snap! Jun 12, 2007
dmp3 Music delivers super high quality, cleaned, organized digital libraries that are built to order and ready to plug and play. Jeff Susman of Mohnton, Pa. (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
Much Ado About Microsofts Surface Computer Jun 1, 2007
digital libraries that allow you to access via internet virtually any content through a micro usage-based pricing model content providers get paid scrupulously based on demand and users don t get gouged. 8. (New York Times)
New tool screens spam, digitizes books May 28, 2007
Sign up to receive our free Tech e-newsletter and get the top news of the day in your inbox. Get breaking news in your inbox as it happens. (USA Today)
Classroom prospects dim for the best and the brightest May 25, 2007
Through a Web-based program that lets her tour virtual art museums, browse digital libraries, and, on this day, write rap lyrics, the fifth-grader can explore to her mind's delight. Anderson is one of a select number of elementary school pupils tapped to participate in the gifted and talented program, just as her school, the Henri A. Yelle Elementary School, is one of a select few in Massachusetts offering specialized programs for its brightest students. (Boston Globe)
ARM Holdings Holds Analyst and Investor Day May 23, 2007
ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. (PR Newswire)
A new landmark in distance learning Apr 23, 2007
It will also assist in the set up of automation and building digital libraries. The national network and consortium will further guide to establish linkages with other national library networks. (Hindu)
German firm's unit sues Sepracor over drug patent Mar 27, 2007
The report finds that the devaluation of ownership means that models offering access to vast digital libraries on a rental basis are more compelling than just having access to purchased content. (Chris Reidy). (Boston Globe)
Families turn to Internet to grieve Feb 23, 2007
"We're living in a world where it is effortless to create massive digital libraries of ourselves and the people we care about.". Within two hours of Cochran's online announcement of her husband's death in January 2003 at age 45, condolences began to arrive on the site's guestbook at rates of 10 or more a day, including one from Vonda Evans of Springfield, Ore. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
Server-based translation project begins Jan 25, 2007
Cross-lingual information access would be a browsing tool and optical character recognition and handwriting recognition were the tools that would be used for digital archiving such as in digital libraries and field surveys, he said. For this, as many as 23 academic and research and development institutions and private corporates are already working in a consortium. (Business Standard)
Bringing Together The Study Of The Earth And Sky Jan 13, 2007
Combining the ERSC aerial photo and satellite imagery archives with the extensive global weather satellite holdings of the SSEC Data Center will enrich what is already recognized as one of the premiere remote sensing digital libraries in the world, says Steve Ventura, ERSC interim director. The inclusion of ERSC in SSEC facilitates unique opportunities to study interactions between the Earth and its atmosphere. (Science Daily)
