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No, I'm not. I'm just an amateur real interested in artificial life.

It's so much more interesting than real life.

http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/pattern_c03/p_be njacob/

1. Brilliant researcher at Oxbridge University (who pays his salary) comes up with great idea, writes it up, submits it electronically by emailing it to an editor at the Snooty Journal,
   
2. The editor, a professor at Enormus State University (who pays his salary and has him teach a little less because of his prestigous editorship) thinks of an appropriate anonymous referee and sends off the article to be refereed. Snooty Journal may give ESU some money to cover part of the cost of a secretary, but does not pay his salary.
   
3. Professor at IviedHalls University (who pays his salary) receives the article to refereee, reads it, sends it back with comments after letting it molder on his desk/inbox for a bit.
   
4. Editor accepts or rejects the paper, possibly asking for modifications based upon the referee's recommendation, possibly some iteration at this step
   
5. Original author prepares the article in electronic format using LaTeX with Snooty Journal's style files and uploads it to their web site.
   
6. Snooty Journal staff typeset the paper, messing a few things up because they are not experts in the appropriate field, and send the "galley proofs" to the author to review.
   
7. Original author points out typos introduced in their typsetting process, sends back corrected galleys.
   
8. Snooty Jounal releases the article on their paid-subscription webpage and prints it as a dead-tree volume to send to libraries around the world that can afford it.
   
   As you can see, the hard part of the labor (writing, reviewing, refereeing) is not done by anyone at the publisher-- various universities pay the salaries of those folks and they pay again for the journal in dead-tree form.
   

   
   So you can see that there may be some objection to the arrangement. In the old days, the journal staff actually typset things and dead-trees were the only game in town, but most of the typesetting is done by the author.
   

   
   The choice is hard for some people that really need to publish in the expensive journals to get tenure, recognition, grants, etc. But for people who already have tenure, some are resistant to the journal extortion. Some may have a policy like mine- I do not submit to expensive journals or agree to referee for expensive journals, now that I have the advantage of tenure.
   

   
   There have been some successes of editorial boards that resigned wholesale, then started a free/inexpensive journal. Hopefully this becomes more common.
   

   • Some related links:
   • Journal prices in Econ
     
   • Rob Kirby calling for better pricing for math journals
     
   • Journal of Algorithms editorial board resignation to start a cheap prestigious journal
     
   • Knuth's letter about that resignation
     

Here is a really fun lecture given by penrose in 1999 (slides+audio). In it he talks about some of his pet theories of consciousness, but also a really cool example of transcendental induction.

Simon.

with the exception of contact data which is text only and not executable.

Well, let's hope so anyway.

and don't forget Smashing the Stack for fun and profit

Naaa...there was no stereo satellite imagery before 1995.

Well, you can implement cheaper and less robast hand-tracking camera system with little coding using open sourced Augmented reality system - ARToolkit. Put small ARToolkit markers on the gloves as described at this article (photo, and implement some gesture recognition (for example that one )

Have a look at HandVu for something that works right now.

I was planning on writing something similar to this (actually, very similar, same libraries and everything) but now may just build on top of the HandVu libraries instead.

see Ted Bergstrom's fine page:

ciao,

I'm always amazed that Universities publish this information on their websites. See https://titan.isc.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/ldap/advsearch. cgi

Actually, I'm a teacher at UCSB, so I've used eGrade before.

eGrades security is far worse than that. It doesn't require a social security number and date of birth, rather it uses the "university id" that at student uses to login to some campus wireless networks, campus e-mail and the uweb/ustorage accounts.

Here's the login interface:

http://www.egrades.sa.ucsb.edu/

Resetting the password requires:

Last Name, Perm Number (id number), last four of social and birthdate.

Obtaining these, albeit not easy is not that hard at all.

> And when I post a misrepresentation, you may fairly call "strawman".

Your misrepresentation was claiming my belief in God is akin to a belief in unicorns - a much more easily defeated proposition.

When you said: "In other news, unicorns exist. They just choose to remain invisible,..." ...you created a "strawman analogy". Read about it here (Valid attacks on analogies, #1)

> > No one believes your imaginary friend exists.
> You've asked them? Everyone?
No. I polled a large enough sample.

> > Millions believe that mine exists - why don't you walk into a church and ask them?
> I'm sure that at some time, most people believed
> the earth was flat.

No.

"No one before the 1830s believed that medieval people thought that the earth was flat."
Source

> Does that mean it was?
Appeals to populism are meaningless. Appeals to personal testimony from witnesses are meaningful.

> I'm sure that large numbers of people believe in other skydaddies.
> If they outnumber your club, then I asume they're right and you're wrong?
People may believe in tradition -- but we who believe in Jesus *know* Him.

> > Nothing. I'll leave you to the consequences. What else do you expect me to do?
> So much for "I am my brother's keeper". Hypocrite.
You Hypocrite! How I can force myself upon a brother who wants nothing to do with me?
You are responsible for your own soul.

The myth is just that.. a myth:

From Myth of the Flat Earth:

"It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat."

Yes, except for the fact it wasn't Reagan. It was Carter.

This is from Carter's speech accepting the 1980 Democratic Presidential nomination:

Now, what do the Republicans propose? Basically, their energy program has two parts... They want to eliminate the 55-mile speed limit.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/shownomination.php? convid=6

and here is Carter from the 1981 State of the Union address:

In the area of accidental injury control, we have established automobile safety standards and increased enforcement activities with respect to the 55 MPH speed limit. By the end of the decade these actions are expected to save over 13,000 lives and 100,000 serious injuries each year.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44 541

Yes, except for the fact it wasn't Reagan. It was Carter.

This is from Carter's speech accepting the 1980 Democratic Presidential nomination:

Now, what do the Republicans propose? Basically, their energy program has two parts... They want to eliminate the 55-mile speed limit.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/shownomination.php? convid=6

and here is Carter from the 1981 State of the Union address:

In the area of accidental injury control, we have established automobile safety standards and increased enforcement activities with respect to the 55 MPH speed limit. By the end of the decade these actions are expected to save over 13,000 lives and 100,000 serious injuries each year.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44 541

Elektro also had a dog named Sparky, and they were introduced at the 1929 World's Fair. Here's another link for your viewing pleasure.

Everyone (everyone educated, i mean) knew the world was round since say, at least a century or two BCE. You can see it in Dante's Divine Comedy. Pythagoras knew it. The myth that Columbus was the first to think the world was round was not propagated until the 1830's, by none other than Washington Irving (and some other french guy.) You can read about it yourself, http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/RUSSELL/FlatEa rth.html

I have to point out that a typical heterosexist slant exists in a lot of these studies. What about the LESBIANS?!

Berkeley is not the only place that has or will be having one of these. It seems like every big academic institution is building one or already has one. Cornell has had a really good facility(http://www.cnf.cornell.edu/) for a few years now which they just rebuilt and expanded recently. Cornell is also one of the Kavil Institutes for Nanoscience so they just got a big lump of money dumped in their laps to do nano&nanobio type research. UCSB and UCLA are also building the same type of facilities (http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/) and they're also nano + nanobio capable. Same amounts of money are being dumped into them too($50million+), if not more because they're funded by DOD and military. Rice is building one also but it focuses more on environmental impacts of nanotech.
The only reason Berkely is making a big deal out of this is because they lost a lot of good faculty in the last few years because their facilities were too outdated. So they're hoping to attract attention of prospective faculty and coax them into coming there.

she had reached 2.0 beta ;)

...Heavy plate armour is so successful a defense mechanism, you might wonder why many more species don't utilise it.
Glyptodon is an extinct mammal from south america that died out in the pliestocene...I saw one at the Peabody museum at Harvard and good lord was it ever armored. if it simply squatted so its shell rested on the ground, you couldn't hurt it with guns or cars, it bore so massive a shell. And so I had to ask the same question you pose: This looks invincible, a veritable Hummer of a beast, so why the die-off? My speculation is, that like any SUV or heavily armored vehicle, it needs tons of food just to get through a normal day...any upset to the climate such as cold or drought and it starves to death while the more nimble and adaptable critters get by some how.

Indeed. I'd like to see a cartogram in which not only are states' areas are adjusted by their number of electoral votes (like this one) but within states, counties are shown and their areas are adjusted by population.

Actually, I can't think of any examples at all, no matter how I try, that shows this to be true. Maybe you can point one out?

Sure, there are plenty of examples you could use that entail religious beliefs stating something that confilcts with reality as we see it, but faith and knowledge are highly contrasting concepts.

People have believed flight was possible for ages. People in Ancient Greece and Rome had technology for curing diseases, and "safely" doing some surgeries. We have found archeological evidence that may someday prove there was a trade route between South America and the mediteranian sometime in B.C., not to mention the viking who came to America (around 1000 A.D.) when Leif Eriksson came across the sea (while most of the "civilized" world's faith said the earth was flat).

Really not much has changed in what we "can" do in the past 2000 or so years, let alone our ideas of what we "can" do. The only thing that has changed is the degree to which we can do it (depressing when you stop to think about it).

Will we one day be able to teleport things, at least in the sence of destroying you in an incredibly painful way, after taking a quick scan of your makeup and reassemble your scan elsewhere (the scan of course being 2 seconds earlier than the pain of being destroyed, and hence, no memory would remain of said pain. Yay)? Probably. I don't think anyone is really arguing that that isn't possible.

Will we be able to move ourselves to Mars using nothing but the desire to be there? No. Never. Not anytime in the next million years. There is no maybe about it. No, No we will not.

People like http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/RUSSELL/FlatEa rth.html this man are behind pretty much anything that says otherwise. (By the way, that's actually a very funny article to read after being awake 40 hours straight... note how he says that everybody with "common sense" knows the earth is flat because they can stand on a mountain and see 40 miles away on a clear day)

That's right, All people who believe in psychic happenings are paranoid crazy nutball idiots with broken logic centers.

You're absolutely right, he did graduate from Ivy League universities given the chances that apparently neither you or I deserve. Did he get that chance fairly? No. Is he a hypocrite? Yes.

First Andover, then Yale, then Harvard, then the Whitehouse. Anyone who doesn't believe that the aristocratic power of Legacy exists has his head in the sand.

= 9J =

Look at the midwest here during 1850's. MUCH more desertlike and much less water. And the earth took that area FROM less livable to more livable.

Sure it was. (I guess the Great Lakes don't qualify as "water.") Do you have any evidence to back up this assertion? Besides, didn't you say in another post that we only have 80 years of temperature data?

The natural forces are more destructive than most things we can make.

This is precisely why we need to be careful what we do to the climate.

VOLCANOES (1 spew=100 years of 'pollutants)

Wrong. Volcanoes contribute an insignificant amount of carbon dioxide compared to human activities.

The only thing more destructive than most of those are nuclear warheads.. And even 50 years cures most of those problems. Look at Bikini atoll.

The Bikinians are still trying to get the money to clean up their atoll. Like the carbon we're spewing into the atmosphere, the radioactive contamination didn't just go away.

The sahara was a wonderful wilderness. Now its sand. And LOTS of it. The "americans" sure as hell didnt do it. Nature CHANGES weather patters naturally. Whether it be good or bad for us, I dont know.

Nice logical fallacy. Past changes occurred independently of human activities; therefore nothing we do now will affect the climate.

The human race wont die out, but most will. Darn.

The extent of your compassion is quite touching. I'd rather avoid fighting an endless global war over dwindling resources if possible.

actually, augmented reality is an active field of research (it's what i work in). in fact, this week will be the third annual International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (website). Sony's Glasstron head-mounted displays were capable of overlay as they had an optional shutter which blocked or allowed natural light through the screen (these are what we use in our lab).

the main limitations are display technology (too heavy, clunky, low res, low fov), tracking technology (determining where exactly the user is in the world) and physical scene modeling (need detailed information about the location of physical objects for accurate overlay).

All planets (and moons) have magnetic fields.

Actually, that's not true at all. Among the objects that don't generate a real, structured magnetic field, we have Venus, The Moon , Io, Europa, and Mars. Of course, *why* some planets have fields and some don't is still up in the air (rotation of the Earth's core generates our magnetic field, or so it is assumed, and yet Mercury, which almost certainly has a solid core, possesses a planetary magnetosphere).

Mmmmmmmmm.... Central Pivot Irrigation

I would counter a few of your underlying assumptions with the following references - note that electron tunneling pathways affect protein folding dynamics and that quantum interference plays a critical role in photosynthesis. See also Zeilinger's biomolecule matter-wave interference experiments.

Of course, future computing architectures can incorporate these 'spooky' features.

The OGC has been developing ways of sharing and displaying geographic data for some time now. This allows (at its simplest) a user to request an image of a set of vector data (see demo ). If you need a bigger image change the size params. There are many useful WMS available for the US and some for the rest of the world where we don't give data away as freely. It should be well within any slashdotter's ability to write a modfied html form to grab a bigger map. There are also java clients available for free.

To answer questions about where places are check out the alexandria digital library gazeteer again there is a simple html interface or a java client is available.

Finally if you need more maps than are available its pretty easy to down load a server that can be used to publish date using the same protocols (for example the US statistical atlas files).

These ideas will obviously only help users with some sight. How to provide map data to the blind is a much harder problem which geographers are still working on.

Ian, (Computational Geographer)

You're thinking of the old Corona missions, Story which used C-123 cargo planes as a means of recovery. They were run from 1959 through 1972, and you can order copies of the images taken through the USGS.

Added emphasis mine.
Last I checked, while Hawaii itself is land, everything around it for quite some distance is not.

From the parent's source article:
"The capsules were designed to float, so that if the plane missed, Navy boats could retrieve them. In case the boats missed, the capsules were fitted with salt plugs that would dissolve after two days in the ocean, causing the capsule to sink beneath the waves, so the film could never fall into enemy hands."

So while we have technically done mid-air captures before, they were not over land, and in fact were specifically designed to only be over water.

After the cameras photographed the world from polar orbit, the exposed film was jettisoned back to earth near Hawaii, in a capsule fitted with a parachute designed to be snagged by special planes. From The Corona Story

Catching it as it falls from orbit is a tried and tested technique too.

It was used to catch film from spy satellites back in the days when they still used wet film. Theres a description of the first satellites to use it (Corona) here, and the google cache for good measure.

So catching payloads in mid air has a longer history and more successful reoveries than a couple of mars landers. They did use military pilots though ;o)

GPU is well suited for database operation:

Fast Database Operations using Graphics Processors:
http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/DB/

Hardware-based approaches to accelerate CPU intensive operations that arise in the context of non-standard database applications:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~nagender/graphics.htm

The Bureau has previously examined devices known as "Spud Guns, Potato Guns, or Spudzookas" and have determined that such devices, in and of themselves, are not firearms as defined in Title 18 United States Code (U.S.C.), Chapter 44, S 921(a)(3) or 26 U.S.C., Chapter 53, S 5845.

Research conducted at a university is published and put in a subscription database. That university's library, in order to have access to that information, must pay for the database. So the same school that conducted the research is paying for access to it for all its students. (The publishers retain the right to most research.) Ever seen the price of such journals? Particularly science journals? Libraries are having to decide between basic journals they should have for the collection because they just can't afford the prices charged. And as more libraries cut subscriptions to journals, those journals raise their prices to cover the losses. It's turned into a vicious cycle.

There ARE a lot of reasons for the serials crisis. I don't mean to suggest that it's purely corporate greed driving the prices, but rather a series of problems in a publishing model that does not work anymore.

To give you an idea of how prices have ballooned, I'll quote from "Ruminations on the Sci-Tech Serials Crisis". Keep in mind that it was written in 1998 and the same trend has continued:

A more telling statistic may be the ratio of each discipline's price to the average price across all disciplines. In 1963, the ratio for chemistry and physics was 2.5 to 1; engineering, 1 to 1; mathematics, botany, geology, and general sciences, 1.5 to 1; and zoology, 1.5 to 1. By 1996, these ratios were 5.2 to 1; 1.5 to 1; 2 to 1; and 1.8 to 1 for each of the respective disciplines. On the other side of the coin, because the prices of these high-cost disciplines are reflected in the higher average costs of all titles in the U.S. Periodicals Index, one can observe what has happened to low-cost disciplines. As an example, the ratio for history was .8 to 1 in 1963, but by 1996 that ratio had decreased to .3 to 1.

So it's not even a problem that affects a few disciplines, because the cost of funding research access in those disciplines impacts the funding of other disciplines.

Companies which sell electronic journals also often have draconian deals. In order to get certain journals, libraries must purchase bundles of journals and sign a non-cancellation clause for a certain number of years. Thus libraries are locked into paying for those journals despite unknown rate hikes (which on average are 5-8% per year. On average.). Makes balancing your budget interesting.

A number of colleges and universities have publically come out and refused to pay for the electronic subscriptions anymore, and most are attempting to support open publishing initiatives. (Carleton, Macalester, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus, and Cornell have all issued press releases pertaining to this in the past two years.)

So we have a situation where publically-funded research is published by a private company and then is resold to the university where the research was conducted, whose library must choose between several disciplines and journals and leave some areas uncovered, thus actually depriving its students and faculty of information in their areas. This bill may help that situation. If nothing else, it's already an unsustainable model for a business, so this will simply hurry the demise and rise of new alternatives.

Since no one has mentioned it: the Kohn in question won the Nobel Prize in 1998 and is still active and teaching at UC Santa Barbara (confirming his good taste as well as Physics acumen).

His web page is at http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/

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Kohn is not that unknown, depending on where you went to college. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Having gone there, and been a physics student myself, he is quite well known. Though he bacame a little more well known after he received the Nobel Prize a few years back.

I had the chance to meet him (he was never my teacher, nor was i lucky enough to work in his research group) in an elevator once, we talked on the ride down. He is extremely nice and articulate.

The reason why we have a pulse is because it's hard for evolution to result in turbines or continuously spinning things.

That's a loaded sentence :-)

It's also hard for evolution to result in something as complex as an eye; In fact, if you look at how many seperate pieces must 'evolve' for an eye to function, you'll realize that a turbine would be much easier to 'evolve' than an eye.

This is not flamebait... lol... In fact, run over to your library (bookshelf?) and grab a copy of Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species..." and turn to page 162. Read the section about the mousetrap. Darwin concludes that "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." (i.e., an irreducibly complex system). A mousetrap has five essential pieces - and if any one of them is missing (i.e., the spring, the hammer, the catch, the platform or the holding bar), the trap will not function.

But back to a turbine, which you say is impossible for to evolve on its own...
I'll take your challenge one step further and show you something that does exist in nature: the flagella on a bacterium.

A flagellum looks kinda like a hair that's attached to the surface of the bacterium. It acts like a propeller & allows the bacterium to swim. The flagellum is attached to and rotated by a small electrical motor made up of several different proteins.

The flagellum contains a rod (i.e., a drive shaft), a hook (i.e., a universal joint), L and P rings (i.e., bushings), S and M rings (i.e., the rotor), and a C ring & stud (stator). The electrical power for driving the motor is supplied by the voltage difference developed across the cell membrane.

Anyway, what was that about evolution not being able to cause a turbine to be created? I definitely agree with you on that point!

Can anyone offer a plausible explanation for how any one of the pieces of a bacterial flagellum would offer that bacterium some sort of advantage?

That said, it would be really weird to not feel my own heartbeat!

From

"Illusion of Truth" plot summary (spoiler warning)

From a second "Illusion of Truth" plot summary (spoiler warning)

From a thrid "Illusion of Truth" plot summary (spoiler warning)

And finally a fourth "Illusion of Truth" plot summary (minor spoiler warning)

Ed Koch (democrat mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989) might agree there is a need for "Ethical Film Makers"

Disagreeing with America's foreign policy and seeking to change it, responsibly or irresponsibly, is a fundamental right protected by the First Amendment.

Shaming those who do it irresponsibly [unethical Moore?] is our only lawful recourse and rightly so.

Senator John Kerry in criticizing United States' foreign policy and the incumbent president is acting responsibly, albeit I disagree with many of his views. On the other hand, Michael Moore, writer and director of the film "Fahrenheit 9/11," crosses that line regularly. The line is not set forth in the criminal statutes, but it is determined by Americans who know instinctively what actions and statements taken and uttered violate the obligations of responsibility and citizenship they deem applicable in time of war.

Franklin Roosevelt (president of usa during ww2) might agree there is a need for "Ethical Film Makers"

And, finally, there are a few among us who have deliberately and consciously closed their eyes because they were determined to be opposed to their government, its foreign policy and every other policy, to be partisan, and to believe that anything that the Government did was wholly wrong.

To those who have closed their eyes for any of these many reasons, to those who would not admit the possibility of the approaching storm--to all of them the past two weeks have meant the shattering of many illusions.

They have lost the illusion that we are remote and isolated and, therefore, secure against the dangers from which no other land is free.

In some quarters, with this rude awakening has come fear, bordering on panic. It is said that we are defenseless. It is whispered by some that only by abandoning our freedom, our ideals, our way of life, can we build our defenses adequately, can we match the strength of the aggressors.

I did not share those illusions. I do not share these fears
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But there is an added technique for weakening a nation at its very roots, for disrupting the entire pattern of life of a people. It is important that we understand it.

The method is simple. It is, first, a dissemination of discord. A group--not too large- a group that may be sectional or racial or political--is encouraged to exploit its prejudices through false slogans and emotional appeals. The aim of those who deliberately egg on these groups is to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and, eventually, a state of panic.

Sound national policies come to be viewed with a new and unreasoning skepticism, not through the wholesome political debates of honest and free men, but through the clever schemes of foreign agents.

As a result of these new techniques, armament programs may be dangerously delayed. Singleness of national purpo

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Actually, if you are looking for hard core science, you could check out the The KITP lecture archives. They are hard science lectures covering some really cutting edge stuff. Now while about 85% is well over my head, there are lots of "overview" lectures (and slides) in there that I found really interesting. A great little treasure trove of science.

This is more toward the heavy science area but it demonstrates a genre I would like to find more of on the web, i.e. archived class lectures or conferences on science or tech subjects. This link takes you directly to audio/video media made at a conference on "planet creation" held at The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA. I'm a believer that multimedia distance learning is a wonderful field to be in and many of these engineers and lab guys need a lot of help to creatively present their ideas on the web. If you know of some good sites with archived classes or lectures, please add them to the list.

This is more toward the heavy science area but it demonstrates a genre I would like to find more of on the web, i.e. archived class lectures or conferences on science or tech subjects. This link takes you directly to audio/video media made at a conference on "planet creation" held at The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA. I'm a believer that multimedia distance learning is a wonderful field to be in and many of these engineers and lab guys need a lot of help to creatively present their ideas on the web. If you know of some good sites with archived classes or lectures, please add them to the list.

Thanks for that link. That paper references this paper (PDF) by M. Sahami, S. Dumais, D. Heckerman, and E. Horvitz."

They seem to be the first Bayesian Spam Filterers. So if the patent belongs to anyone, its Microsoft and Stanford University.

Doesn't that make you feel better.

How about Intercal?

INTERCAL's main advantage over other programming languages is its strict simplicity. It has few capabilities, and thus there are few restrictions to be kept in mind. Since it is an exceedingly easy language to learn, one might expect it would be a good language for initiating novice programmers. Perhaps surprising then is the fact that it would be more likely to initiate a novice into a search for another line of work. As it turns out, INTERCAL is more useful (which isn't saying much) as a challenge to professional programmers.

There are open source correlation projects out there (opposed to QuIDScor, Sourcefires RNA, and Tenables NeVO) such as IDS Alert Verification, OSSIM, and Brian Caswell's simplistic honeysuckle.

Great article, but you can improve it for us with just a little bit of html, making links is not hard:

You can find it with many slides at http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/lewis1/

Some of the recent research, and the progress made by startup companies is summarized at:

http://www.konarkatech.com/news_articles-forbes_no v.php

http://www.konarkatech.com/news_articles-solracs-h ybPV.php

http://www.st.com/stonline/press/news/year2003/t13 55h.htm

http://www.nanosolar.com/advantages.htm

At UCSB you're required to take 5 quarters of math for Computer Science and 4 quarters for Computer Engineering