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Sorin Adam Matei

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NYTimes: Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books

Amazon’s investment in the new Kindle Fire, which includes almost free access to books that it bought on its own dime, seems to be for the long haul, which although a surprise, might or might not work. “Amazon is giving away books,…

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” How can you find a page number for a direct citation if you do not have the print version of the book?

A grad student of mine and I were working on a paper when we realized that we have THAT citation management problem on our hands. We needed to cite the specific page number for Raymond’s famous citation “given enough eyeballs, all bugs…

Cloud computing coming to a workstation near you

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to login to any computer and be able to access all your music, pictures, documents, and passwords to all your social networking services?  Well, soon (hopefully) you’ll be able to.  This is the whole idea…

Amazon.com: Top of the crop

Amazon.com launches a sliding browser called Windowshop of its latest hand picked novelties. Looks cute. What do you think?