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Yahoo/UC Berkeley tie up to form new ‘lablet’

[print version] Academia’s quest for the ultimate search tool | CNET News.com CNET News.com http://www.news.com/ Academia’s quest for the ultimate search tool By Stefanie Olsen http://news.com.com/Academias quest for the ultimate search tool/2100-1038_3-5831050.html Story last modified Mon Aug 15 04:00:00 PDT 2005 The University of California at Berkeley is creating an interdisciplinary center for advanced search […]

Interplanetary Internetworking report in IEEE Spectrum

I wonder if Google wil be more involved with Vint Cerf’s recent decision to join them… ACM News Service “The Interplanetary Internet” IEEE Spectrum (08/05) Vol. 42, No. 8, P. 30; Jackson, Joab Ambitious plans for future space exploration cannot be realized without an effective communications network to link Earth with its far-flung explorers, and […]

Patent Commons

ACM News Service “LinuxWorld SF: OSDL Announces Patent Commons Project” IDG News Service (08/10/05); Nystedt, Dan The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) in concerned that software patents are having a detrimental effect on open-source collaboration, and mitigating that threat is the goal behind the Patent Commons initiative the organization announced on Aug. 9. The effort […]

Yahoo! Research Labs’ new head

Yahoo’s new search master | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com -Posted by Dan Farber @ 11:48 am The arms race for scientists with expertise in various areas of search, data mining and data analysis is in full flower, as in the tug of war between Google and Microsoft over the services of Kai Fu Lee. […]

Intel’s “lablet” collaboration strategy

Although Intel funds the labs, it doesn’t own the intellectual property, and the research is widely shared and published, Teixeria says. Intel won’t disclose how much it’s spending on its university research projects, but its overall R&D budget is expected to exceed $5 billion this year. The real goal, Teixeria says, is to see if […]

Siemens tries its hand at incubating startups

…not all of which are spinoffs of its own; some are strategic investments in external inventions they believe they need. This is another great isgn of the realignment of expectations for corporate venture activities… Technology Start-Ups Get Chance To Grow With Siemens Backing By DANIEL ROSENBERG DOW JONES NEWSWIRES October 13, 2005; Page B4 Deep […]

Robot Cars Complete Course; Markets Baffled

Congratulations to Stanford, who won DARPA’s Autonomous Vehicle race on Saturday, and to Carnegie Mellon, who had two vehicles in close contention all day. DARPA also deserves kudos for running a website that was tracking the vehicles as the race progressed, showing where each vehicle was on the course and which ones were still moving. […]

CFTC Prohibits a Few TradeSports Markets

Chris Masse provided a pointer to a consent order between the CFTC and TradeSports (a.k.a. TEN, the Trade Exchange Network). The order is interesting because in allowing TradeSports to escape punishment by paying a fine and agreeing not to sell options on commodities (“without admitting any wrongdoing”), the CFTC is implicitly not challenging TradeSports’ other […]

Google gets on the Prediction Markets bandwagon

Some folks at Google have set up an internal prediction market, and they seem pretty pleased with the results. There’s also a lively discussion at slashdot. The names on the project that I recognize are Hal Varian, an economist at Berkeley, who has written about prediction markets before, and Patri Friedman, son and grandson of […]