Monthly panel discussion With this week as subject “Cyber Security”     Moderator: Matthew Burr – Beragon Betts   Anyone who is interested in his security on the internet will soon come across worrying reports about phishing e-mails, cybercrime, industrial espionage, governments stealing each other's data and cyber-terrorism. Closer to home, data mining affects us […]

Photo Wikipedia Color for Photographers Abstract: The colorspace of a camera or display or printer indicates the range of colors that can be recorded or reproduced. A colorspace is a subset of the range of typical human vision. In this tutorial, colorspaces will be defined and the consequences for image recording and reproduction discussed. Robert Lawson […]

Photo: Huffpost Archival & Digital Legacy, Preserving Your Digital Work   Abstract: Background: When a person dies, their digital footprint persists. Digital providers assume ownership of Intellectual property (IP) created on their servers. Family and workgroup attempts to archive or maintain deceased works are blocked. Approach: We worked within system permissions shared by the creator. […]

"Design and Effectiveness of Laboratory Experiments in the Virtual World of Second Life" By Kurt Winkelmann Associate Professor of Chemistry Florida Institute of Technology   In order to explore the feasibility, challenges, and benefits of replacing real world chemistry lab experiments with a virtual experience, students at a large public university performed experiments in both […]