It showed up before lunch and the front desk at the hotel notified me. I never heard from the airline. Everything is fine, but I have no idea where it has been.

Carmine Granucci, Yale University Yale purchased their search appliance about 2 years ago. Because of the load (500,000 pages), they decided to go with the appliance vs. the mini. Price: $20,000 for 1,000,000 pages + extra for 24/7 support. The administration pages look exactly the same as our google mini box. Collections and front ends […]

Martha Gabriel, University of Brazil Unfortunately, Martha is currently stuck in Brazil and could be here in person. Fortunately, the staff here was very creative. They networked up an audio connection and she is currently giving her presentation inside of second life.  How appropriate! For a little while, our avatar (whose point of view is […]

David Anderson, University of Buffalo He starts with a little back history and then jumps into showing an example of Webalizer. But his internet connection was not working. Current the program he uses is Mach 5 FastStats – it took them about 4hours to churn over a year of data. Plus it has some cool […]

Understanding Hydraulics Using Haptics Michele Adams, Armstrong Atlantic State University Haptics: Working with the sence of touch. Haptic devices allow the user to interface with a virtual environments like they were really there. You can feel the virtual items. Devices include pens, gloves, etc… Applications: Medical remote surgery virtual simulation training telemonitoring Entertainment online gaming […]

Jaclyn Whitehorn and Gina Tinny, The University of Alabama Actually, only Jaclyn today. What is it? A JavaScript library. Really good at quickly accessing and modifying any part of your page. Todays buzzword is unobtrusive! She just threw down the fact that most of those cool Web2.0 effects are not really AJAX. It only becomes […]

Paul Dempsey, Dickinson College He asks the crowd, “Who has good maps/directions to your campus”. No one in the audience raises a hand… Google maps was launched in Feb. 2005. API released in June 2005. The “terms of use” mean that the service is available to both non-profit and commercial sites. However, they do reserve […]

Karine Joly, www.collegewebeditor.com She started blogging in 2005, and had about 3 readers. Now 7000 visitors per month. 1000 subscribers. So, what make a great blog? The readers! Suddenly – her slides started advancing automatically… but she held it together and eventually got it fixed (it was vista). Back to the presentation: Don’t start a […]

 Danny Harvey, Ryan Gibson, Eastern Illinois University This looks like a very nice system for creating surveys and forms. Unfortunately, the demo did not work properly. Still the idea seemed solid.

Presenter: Gabriel McGovern , Portland Community College I had a coughing fit. Then my laptop crashed.