rorism” makes the news almost every week. The idea of terrorists surreptitiously hacking into a government, military, commercial, or socially critical computer system to introduce a virus or worm, turn off a crucial public service, steal or alter sensitive information, deface or swamp a web site, route bogus messages, or plant a Trojan horse for future activation alarms security personnel, spel...

In October of 2000, I launched a website, www.chinesememorial.org, to record the names of the people who died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution. Through years of research, involving over a thousand interviews, I had compiled the stories of hundreds of victims, and placed them on the website. By clicking on the alphabetically-listed names, a user could access a victim’s personal in...

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This talk will focus upon a personal update of my sojourn as an artist/academician a journey that has led me from the analog to the electronic medium spanning a timeline of 30 odd years. The exploration, still in progress, will start with city planning, architecture and photography where I acquired, and developed my analog skills. Following this, I will focus on my encounter with the digital re...

Non-technical summary. As we consider a transition to low-carbon future, there is need examine the mineral needs for this transformation at scale reminiscent of Green Revolution. The efficiency gains agrarian came ecological and social costs that should provide important lessons about future metal sourcing. We present three options Mineral Revolution: status quo, incremental adaption revolution...

For over two decades, the ‘information revolution’ in the MiddleEast has been framed overwhelmingly in terms of media, more of it,and in comparisons to mass media – from the advent of any-to-anycommunication to ad hoc conceptualizations such as ‘crowd-sourcing’ or‘citizen journalism’ – that register the multiplication of voices, channelsand eroding boundaries in spheres of communication. The re...

This article explores how the US news media was impacted by events in mid-twentieth century Cuba, namely, 1959 Revolution and demise of Havana as a Latin American capital. study argues that Cuban its exiles influenced industry three significant ways: 1) propelled expansion Spanish-language media, particularly news, incorporating professionals serving immigrant audiences from Cuba later other na...