20120704 Open Source Everything Highlights
Open Source Everything 20120629 Open Source Everything Highlights Open Source — Open Access The IBZ Online Database Now Features [1,323] Open Access Journals
Patrick Meier: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī: An Update from the Qatar Computing Research Institute
EXTRACT: This brings me to the Qatar (Foundation) Computing Research Institute (QCRI), which was almost called the al-Khwārizmī Computing Research Institute. I joined QCRI exactly two weeks ago as Director of Social Innovation. My first impression? QCRI is Doha’s “House of Whizzkids”. The team is young, dynamic, international and super smart. I’m already working on several exploratory …
Richard Stallman: Free Software Newsletter Issue 31 June 2012
Free Software Supporter Issue 51, June 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS URGENT: Kill ACTA Stop software patents in Europe Two job openings on the FSF campaigns team FSF recommendations for free operating system distributions considering Secure Boot GNU GPLv3 turns 5 Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a “gambling site” FSF’s new operations assistant Emacs Reference mugs …
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DefDog: Sanitize Office – Remove personal metadata
Sanitize Office: How to remove personal metadata Ms. Smith NetworkWorld, Thu, 05/31/12 Do you ever sanitize Microsoft Office products? Have you ever stopped to consider the potential privacy risk from personal metadata that is embedded in Microsoft Office products? Here’s how to remove it Yesterday Microsoft announced Office 365 for Government. Since “security and privacy …
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Manifesto for Open Research
Manifesto for Open Research Michael Gilding reviews a lively manifesto for an important cause Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science By Michael Nielsen Princeton University Press | $37.95 N 2009 Tim Gowers – a mathematician at Cambridge University and a recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal – used his blog to invite readers …
20120624 Open Source Everything Highlights
After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again Oracle tried to kill it, but the former Sun project has emerged from the ashes, nurtured by a crowd of innovative startups Airlines should work together on open source apps Computerworld: Virgin Atlantic’s IT director, David Bulman, has called upon the airline industry to work collaboratively on open source applications …
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Berto Jongman: Reference on Public Health Approach to Internet Security
Report Release: What Internet Security Can Gain From a Public Health Approach NEW YORK, June 4, 2012 – The Internet puts people, systems, and networks in constant contact worldwide, and it needs a global, coordinated effort to protect digital systems from online threats-just like the public health community’s efforts to defend our bodies from illness. …
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