Here is an example of the kind of information space that I have proposed in my previous post. The Australian Constitution is sufficiently long to have sections that need to be read together although they may be widely separated in the text. Use the prototype workspace below to explore the constitution via related...
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Archive for February, 2008
Exploring the Australian Constitution using Related Paragraph links
A related: SIP of project notes and book paragraphs
I am imaging a workspace where texts, notes or paragraphs are organised on a work surface based on their self-similarity. More similar texts cluster together. When a text is open for editing, the workspace provides one-click links to the closest texts in the workspace. If anyone is aware of such a workspace, please leave...
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Addressing the Observable Universe
Developments in microprocessor technology have seen address buses increase in width from 8 to 16, 24, 32, to 64 bits. IPv6 uses 128 bits to address network nodes – but how many bits does it take to address the universe?
To address the universe, we need to be able to specify four dimensions 1)...
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Architecting Server/Client Convergence
In this post I argue that the current convergence of Desktop and / Web Apps (RIAs) suggests a convergence of Server and Clients and that this opens up some interesting possibilities.
I have been following an interesting series of posts by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on the web/desktop convergence trend (all four posts are worth reading!). As...
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Adaptive control of Request Based Distributed Computing
The purpose of this post is to illustrate the possibility for autonomic computing inherent in Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC).
This is how I summarised RBDC in a recent post:
Request Based Distributed Computing is a small extension of the http protocol and notion of server, proxy and client. Rich Internet Applications, SOA architected...
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Prediction: Web-scale Related-word Tag Cloud Service
As a learner who uses the web regularly for research – I could really use a web-scale related-words tag cloud service.
If you know of such a service, please leave a comment below! If there is no such service, i am going to go out on a limb and predict that it...
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Tier-Agnostic Requests and Wadi
Tier-Agnostic requests are being used by the Wadi project in Java Server Farms. This Java-specific implementation lends support to the general applicability of Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC) for client centric distributed computing.
WADI is an acronym of ‘WADI Application Distribution Infrastructure’. WADI started life as a solution to the problems surrounding the distribution of...
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