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October 8, 2012

Want to learn about Networking and the Internet?

By laura
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08October

You can trust the “experts” that populate Facebook. Or you can take An Introduction to Computer Networks from Stanford University. This is an introductory course on computer networking, specifically the Internet. It focuses on explaining how the Internet works, ranging from how bits are modulated on wires and in wireless to application-level protocols like BitTorrent and HTTP. It also...

January 23, 2012

Information sharing and the Internet

By laura
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23January

Many years ago I was working at the UW-Madison. Madison is a great town, I loved it a lot. One of the good bits was this local satire paper called The Onion. This paper would show up around campus on Wednesdays. Our lab, like many university employees and students, looked forward to Wednesday and the new humor The Onion would bring to us. At the same time, I was internet friends with an employee...

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