Joab Jackson, Miscellaneous Technology Writing

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Miscellaneous Technology Writing

National Geographic News:

Hair Records Where You've Been, Study Finds, 2008-02-26.
Nanotech Clothing Produces Power From Motion, 2008-02-13.
Eyeglass-Free 3-D Movies on the Horizon, 2008-02-06.
Bionic Contact Lens May Create Tiny Personal Displays, 2008-01-29.
Electromagnetic Wormhole Could Make Objects Invisible, 2007-10-23.
Virtual Robots Befuddled by Optical Illusions, 2007-01-11.
Disaster Prediction, Social Networking Boosted by Geo-Data Feeds, 2006-10-19.
Satellite-Photo Atlas Uses Digital Globe to Show Eco Damage, 2006-10-23.
Neogeography Blends Blogs With Online Maps, 2006-04-25.
Genetically Modified Bacteria Produce Living Photographs, 2005-12-06.
Accidental Find to Signal "Lights Out" for Incandescent Bulbs?, 2005-11-29.

IEEE Spectrum magazine:

Slideshow: Art, Engineering, and Sensory Overload at Burning Man, 2006-10.
The Interplanetary Internet: NASA researchers quarrel over how to network outer space, 2005-10.

M.I.T. Technology Review:

Brainy Radios, 2003-02 (Registration required).

Washington Post "Sunday Source" section:

How to Make a Digital Scrapbook, 2005-12-15.
How to Plan a Video Scavenger Hunt, 2005-09-18.
Hobbit Hole Fund, 2005-01-05.
Make Phone Calls Online, 2004-08-26.
How to Change Your Own Oil, 2004-08-12.
How to Screen Your Own Movie, 2004-06-24.
How to Get Your Own Internet Name, 2004-04-15.
How to Select a Home Theater , 2003-1-4.

Linux.com:

Python Makes a Big Break, 2008-10-15.
IETF roiled over NAT 2004-01-24.
Eiffel: The language that OOP forgot? 2003-08-18.
Higher Calling: Revenge of the Functional Langauges, 2003-06-25.
Aspect Oriented Programming Comes of Age, 2003-06-09.
EMACS vs. vi: The Holy War 2001-12-01.
Socket Man: Steve Gibson's DDoS Attacks 2001-06-20.
Is That Free Will as in Free Code or Free Beer: On Minsky's Artificial Intelligence, 2001-06-07.
Linux Kernel to Have NSA Inside? 2001-03-23.

Baltimore magazine:

High in Fiber: Maryland's fiber-optic industry, 2002-03.
Start Me Up: The story of Advertising.com, 2001-01.
Geeks to the Rescue: How a Linux users group helped out a center, 1999-12.
Robbing the Cable: Comcast nearly sent a customer to jail for using a cable modem, 1999-07.
Baltimore computer game developer Sid Meier, 1999-05.
Profile of Baltimore County Library director Charles Robinson, 1995-01.
Who owns the fiber optic lines underneath the Baltimore, 2004-04-15.

Baltimore City Paper:

#Everything: A million conversations are going on right now on Twitter--what do they have to say to you, 2009-08-19.
Made to Disorder: Steve Levy's New Book Reveals The Upside And Downside Of Your iPod's Shuffle Mode, 2006-11-22.
Star Search: Two New Books Examine The New Informational Overlords, Google, 2005-11-16.
Card Games: Should Buyers Beware of How Supermarkets Use "Loyalty Cards" to Collect Personal Data? 2003-10-1.
Signals in the Noise: Peter Wayner Stalks the Surreptitious Art of Steganography, 2002-06-02.
Made to Order: The Dumbing Down of the Robot Mind, 2002-04-17.
After Napster: How the New Technology Will Change Music Itself, 2000-07-12.
Burning Man: Burning Music Cds, 2000-01-05.
Your Electronic Self: Privacy In The Internet Age, 1998-06-10.
Sid Meier's Game Theory, 1995-07-05.

UMBC alumni magazine:

Creating a Smarter Web: Timothy Finin: 2010-01.
The Tweet Science: Zeynep Tufekci, 2009-09.
The Power of Parallels: UMBC's multicore computational center, 2009-06.

Baltimore Urbanite:

Q and A with Frank Baitman: Police Video Surveillance, 2008-04.

Linux Weekly News:

New NFS to bring parallel storage to the masses, (01/21/09)(Fourth article down).

Linux Magazine:

The Gig is Up: The Future of Processors, 2005-05, (free registration required).
Make Way for Wireless USB, 2005-12, (free registration required).

Netly News (Time Warner):

Don't Go Back to Mudville, 1998-01-23.

National Geographic Green Guide:

Laptop Computers Buying Guide:2009-09-01.