Molecules to Medicine
An Elegy for Aaron
January 14th, 2013 |
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This post is in honor of Aaron Swartz. I had long considered posting my book as open access but had hesitated in doing so, even though I have long been an enthusiast about OLPC and Creative Commons. Aaron’s tragic death prompted my urgent reconsideration and offering. For me, it is the pictures of Aaron, [...]
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Observations
The World Wide Web Became Free 20 Years Ago Today
April 30th, 2013 |
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You and I can access billions of Web pages, post blogs, write code for our own killer apps—in short, do anything we want on the Web—all for free! And we’ve enjoyed free reign because 20 years ago, today, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and his employer, the CERN physics lab in Geneva, published a statement that [...]
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