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White space to open for Wi-Fi, social search gets a second chance

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Search Takes a Social Turn By JENNA WORTHAM Sites are trying to make search more helpful by showing what your friends – or other people like you – like. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13search.html?th&emc=th

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F.C.C. Likely to Open Airwaves to Wireless By EDWARD WYATT Allowing anyone to use “white spaces” in the spectrum would open the door to supercharged Wi-Fi networks. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13wifi.html?th&emc=th

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Fastest Net Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga By STEVE LOHR The service will put a midsize Southern city among the world leaders in digital technology, but the speed will be expensive. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13broadband.html?th&emc=th

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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