EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Grid Computing

An Interview with David Walker

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:12:11 -0600

In this 14 minute recording, George Brett hosts David Walker for an interview on, among other things, a range of issues related to identity management.

An Interview with Greg Jackson

mpasiewicz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:03:08 -0500

This 27 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with the University of Chicago's CIO, Greg Jackson. Listen in as Marilu Goodyear hosts a discussion about patents, cyberinfrastructure and the propsects for a merger between Internet2 and NLR.

An Interview with OCLC's Thomas Hickey

mpasiewicz — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:02:00 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, OCLC's Thomas Hickey was kind enough to join me via Skype to talk about open source software, grid computing, AJAX and a range other topics related to the work of OCLC Research.

An Interview with Rice's Charles Henry

mpasiewicz — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:00 -0600

In this 17 minute recording, I sit down with, Charles Henry, Vice Provost & University Librarian at Rice University. Among other things, we'll talk about SHOAH and the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with MIT's MacKenzie Smith

mpasiewicz — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:05:00 -0600

In this podcast, I speak with MIT's McKenzie Smith about the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, The MIT Libraries' investigation of Semantic Web technology via their SIMILE project, grid computing vis-a-vis the SDSC Storage Resource Broker, and digital preservation.

To learn more about the activities of the MIT Libraries,
you can view their annual report at the url below:
http://libraries.mit.edu/about/annual/ar05/technology.html

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Tara McPherson about the Vectors journal

mpasiewicz — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:30:00 -0600

In this 22 minute recording, I sit down with the Tara McPherson, Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California and editor of Vectors. We'll talk about her involement in HASTAC, what she's learned from Vectors and emerging forms of scholarship more generally.

You can review the abstract for her session at CNI at the link below:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/abstracts/PB-reimagining-mcpherson.html

Other podcasts of interest might include Open Talk About Dinosaurs and John Seely Brown's presentation at the University of Colorado System's Teaching with Technology Conference.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Microsoft's Tony Hey

mpasiewicz — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:44:00 -0600

In this 21 minute recording, I sit down with Tony Hey, Microsoft's VP for Technical Computing.

Let's listen in as he compares e-science research in the US and UK, talks about the prospects of multicore computing, shares his thoughts on the NSF's cyberinfrastructure report, and sheds some light on the challenges of working with very large, high throughput datasets ... the raw materials of research.

He also briefly touches on the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) and as well as their Digital Curation Centre ... an attempt to bring scientists, computer scientists and librarians together to to tackle issues involvingcuration and preservation of massive amounts of data.

More on Tony Hey
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/tonyhey/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/may05/05-17HeyPR.mspx
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/plenary.html

Sorry, I couldn't help but think of REM when Tony began to talk about multicore chips
It's the end of Moore's Law as we know it -- and I feel fine ... ;)

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Podcast on Bot Networks

mpasiewicz — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 05:36:00 -0500

This 49 minute podcast provides coverage of the 2005 Security Professionals Conference session on Bot Networks. It provides a moderately technical, albiet very interesting discussion about detection and remediation processes used at the College of William and Mary.