May 2002 Archived Article Abstracts

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Archived Abstracts from May 2002

Jacksonville State University's Dr. David Dempsey of the math faculty says children are generally excited about math, which is fortunate considering the number of good jobs in the field.

PETALING JAYA: The annual ComQuiz national information technology (IT) competition, which kicks off in June, is set to further raise the level of IT awareness among students.

An ongoing research project on the impact of information technology on cities.

A presentation by Mitchell Moss and Anthony Townsend to the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University

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New Meta-Search Engine Claims results equal to Google

The capabilities of meta search sites continue to evolve and with them MyWebHound has evolved into Search Online, a fully loaded metasearch service, and the latest player in the field of metasearch (uses the new .info domain extension!More info). Starting as MyWebHound, Search Online has been under development for many months.

AOL Signs Deal to Use Google Search Engine this summer.

Internet search engine Google will become the online search service of America Online, the largest online service provider.

Google, a privately held company, will replace InktomiCorp.this summer to power the search areas of America Online - which has more than 34 million users - as well as CompuServe, AOL.com and Netscape.

AOL Time Warner co-Chief Operating Officer Bob Pittman called Google "the reigning champ of online search".

More about AOL & Google from:

You'll have to register (free) with NYT to view article.

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1930 Census Data Becomes Available to Public

By: Tom Nobles      April 1, 2002

After a long wait, seventy two years, genaology researchers have access to 1930 census data.

Historians say the U.S. Census records will provide a more detailed look at life in America at the dawn of the Great Depression. The 1930 census date of April 1 came over five months after the October 1929 stock market crash.

Copies of the 1930 forms were put on 2,667 rolls of microfilm in the 1940s. Those copies were made available at archives headquarters in Washington, and at 13 other offices around the country. The original 1930 forms were destroyed after transfer to microflim was completed and verified.

For more information on the 1930 census archives, follow the links below.

The 1930 Census

Geospatial & Statistical Data Center - Census Data for the Year 1930

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LookSmart To Acquire WiseNut

"LookSmart Strengthens Leadership Position in Search Targeted Marketing With Acquisition of WiseNut, Inc."

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AltaVista has a new look and new features

The search service AltaVista has once again altered its appearance and added some new features. For rundowns on these, follow the links below. AltaVista has also gone from using a default Boolean OR operator to a default AND operator.

AltaVista has once again resurrected a feature showing what people are searching for on the service (AltaVista Real Searches). You can see real time searches on the web index, as well as in other areas such as image searching.

Meanwhile, AltaVista is closing the free email service that it offered to 400,000 people at the end of February.

In another change, AltaVista has a new way of serving up page descriptions. Its will now try to form an abstract by looking for sentences on the page that contain your original search term, rather than using the first text on the page. This is similar to how Google has always operated.

However, if a meta description tag is used (the part of the web page that robots and browsers see), then AltaVista will use that for the first part of that description and combine it with a dynamic abstract formed from content on the page itself.

More links to articles about Alta Vista

SearchDay, Feb. 21, 2002

"AltaVista has a new streamlined look, with a slimmed-down search box and a tabbed interface providing direct access to the major portions of the search engine."

SearchDay, February 11, 2002

"AltaVista is making it easier for searchers to delve into reaches of the invisible web, providing "shortcuts" that point to high-quality deep web resources that other search engines typically can't see."

ResearchBuzz, Feb. 13, 2002

Search Engine Showdown, Feb. 14, 2002

Boston.internet.com, Feb. 19, 2002

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Instant access to authors

Advanced search and other features enable visitors to C-SPAN's Booknotes.org Web site to easily find what they are looking for. There are more than 600 transcripts of interviews with non-fiction book authors that were originally aired on the Booknotes television program. The interviews, which date back to 1989, involve such well-known people as Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter, Henry Louis Gates, Jean Strouse and Betty Friedan.

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http://www.kmworld.com/resources/featurearticles/index.cfm?action=readfeature&Feature_ID=305

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Online Schooling Growing, Some Educators Skeptical

By Dick Kelsey,

"In a good news-bad news report published today, Education Week magazine said states are building online learning programs for high school students, despite questions about the effectiveness of e-learning and less face-to-face interaction among pupils and teachers."

According to E-Defining Education: A Survey of State Technology Coordinators, "twelve states have set up Internet learning for high schoolers and five others are developing such programs." There are 25 states that allow cyber-charter schools, e- learning initiatives are under way in 32 states and plans are in place for online testing in 10 states

Dick Kelsey's article said, "the report also said some educators and researchers are skeptical of claims that online learning is a good substitute for brick-and-mortar classrooms. Most of the 40,000 to 50,000 students enrolled in online courses in the current school year are in high school, but there's a growing interesting in making online courses available to middle school and elementary students as well."

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New Game Is Played Online for Topps

"Topps, which makes bubblegum, candy and trading cards, has been making a televised appeal to baseball fans in an effort to create an online boom in card collecting."

"In the end, baseball cards may be no safer than dot-com shares."

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