News tagged with encyclopedia britannica
Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.
Probing Question: How is the computer age changing libraries?
May 21, 2009 |
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For those of us of a certain age — no need to put a number on it, thank you -- the word "library" still conjures forth memories of solid wood cabinets filled with hand-typed cards, each pointing to a book ...
Microsoft closing Encarta online encyclopedia
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia, which competes in an arena dominated by communally-crafted free Internet reference source Wikipedia.
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Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...
Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade
Nov 19, 2009 |
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The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
Craigslist founder joins Wikimedia advisory board
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board.
All wired up: Professor explains how technology really helps the economy
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Information technology is all around us — but how does it really change the way we do business? Erik Brynjolfsson, the Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, explores this question ...
Wikipedia locks Polanski page after editing war
Sep 28, 2009 |
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A Wikipedia page devoted to Roman Polanski was locked on Monday due to fighting over whether the entry should emphasize his accomplishments as a film-maker or his underage sex case.
Online encyclopedia makes life searchable
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One hundred and fifty thousand species down, 1.65 million to go. That is the tally for the online Encyclopedia of Life, an ambitious two-year-old project with the goal of nothing less than documenting in ...
The first DNA barcodes of commonly traded bushmeat are published
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Leather handbags and chunks of red meat: when wildlife specialists find these items in shipping containers, luggage, or local markets, they can now use newly published genetic sequences known as "DNA barcodes" ...
Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people.
Online Encyclopedia of Life reaches 150,000 species
Aug 25, 2009 |
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The public and scientists have helped create the first 150,000 species pages in the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the global online project to create a page for each of the 1.8 million known species on the planet.
Wikipedia operator gets $500,000 foundation grant
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nonprofit organization that operates the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its work bringing free educational content ...
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