August 17th, 2002
The MIT Oxygen Project aims “Bringing abundant computation and communication, as pervasive and free as air, naturally into people’s lives.”
http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/Overview.html

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August 17th, 2002
Red Herringslist of Top 10 Innovators 2002 is out. They are a rare breed: brilliant, patent-producing scientists who are also successful, profit-seeking serial entrepreneurs, the average number of patents per individual is seven and the average number of startups is three.
http://redherring.com/insider/2002/0815/innovators081502.html

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August 17th, 2002
Intel, HP, Gateway sued over Pentium 4 performance. Intel, and its PC customers, face class action with the litigants claiming a Pentium 4 doesn’t perform any better than a Pentium III or an AMD Athlon.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5004

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August 17th, 2002
Bouncing radio signals off shooting stars…. meteor-burst technology sure sounds sci-fi but its been around for 50 years and has been called the poor man’s satellite.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/meteor010208.html

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August 17th, 2002
The Great Thirst. Drought and disease threaten to set off a water war in volatile Central Asia. US scientists are fighting back with a data-crunching system that could pump fresh hope into the region. Does it have any lessons for our country? Think of the Cavery water dispute. Inmy opinion our country has enough expertise to make and implement similar systems.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/thirst.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

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August 17th, 2002
The Web Lecture Archive Project is a University of Michigan - CERN project to implement electronic archival system for audio, video and slide-based presentations on physics by some of the leading experts.
http://wlap.physics.lsa.umich.edu/

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