Thanks to everyone who’s offered help on the Katrina PeopleFinder project. As of this morning, more than 68,000 records had been created in the database… Read More »Katrina PeopleFinder

We got amazing turnout of data entry volunteers yesterday afternoon. At one point, we likely had about 100 people entering data simultaneoulsy. That was a… Read More »Update on Katrina Data Entry

My friend Andy Carvin is organizing International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day today, encouraging bloggers around the world to link to and discuss disaster relief… Read More »Relief Efforts

Israeli blogger Nir Ofir had an excellent idea about two months ago. Squinting at his screen a little bit, he decided the number 3108 (31/08,… Read More »Happy 3108!

My dear friend and mentor Dick Sabot passed away (suddenly and unexpectedly) Wednesday night. Dick was one of the founders of Tripod, and he gave… Read More »Dick Sabot, 1944 – 2005

Push Singh is interested in the hardest challenge of Artificial Intelligence, common sense. While programming a computer to beat humans at chess or index a… Read More »Push Singh at PUSH 2005