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Open Government Information Awareness
Open Government Information Awareness Ryan McKinley B.A., Computer Science &Visual Arts University of California at San Diego, June 2000 Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology August 2003 @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved Author: Ryan McKinley Program in Media Arts and Sciences August 20, 2003 Certified by: Chris Csikszentmihalyi Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Thesis Supervisor ROTCH Accepted by: Dr. Andew B. Lippman Chair, Departmental Committee on Graduate Studies Program in Media Arts and Sciences MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SEP 2 9 2003 LIBRARIES 2 Open Government Information Awareness Ryan McKinley Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, on August 20, 2003 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences. Abstract "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, In the United States, there is a widening gap between a citizen's and a people who mean to be their own ability to monitor his or her government and the government's governors, must arm themselves with ability to monitor a citizen. Average citizens have limited access the power knowledge gives. A popular to important government records, while available information is government without popular information or often illegible. Meanwhile, the government's eagerness and means the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to to oversee a citizen's personal activity is rapidly increasing. -
Copernic Agent Search Results
Copernic Agent Search Results Search: enterprisemission.com (All the words) Found: 1850 result(s) on _Full.Search Date: 7/17/2010 6:06:07 AM 1. The Enterprise Mission Richard Hoagland's breakthrough space website, featuring stories, links, and breaking news stories. ... How Phobos is The Key to a REAL 21st Century Space Program .... ... Preliminary Enterprise Mission Analysis... http://enterprisemission.com 97% 2. Richard C. Hoagland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hoagland, Richard; Earth Rising over the Moon at enterprisemission.com ... Unless its a Hoax of a Different Color" at enterprisemission.com ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Hoagland 94% 3. The Enterprise Mission Return to Enterprise Mission Home - Logo Design By VAGraphics. .... [email protected], THE ENTERPRISE MISSION P.O. BOX 22008 ... http://www.bobwelch.com/The%20Enterprise%20Mission.htm 94% 4. Cosmic Preachers | News of Todays Cosmic Preachers Claim to Fame: Norway Spiral and the Denver Airport Murals. Lucas Stat Facts: Website 1: ... mbara2(at)enterprisemission.com. THE ENTERPRISE [...] Read more ... http://1mgp.com/ 93% 5. Enterprisemission.com Site Info enterprisemission.com is one of the top 100,000 sites in the world and is in the Hoagland,_Richard category http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/enterprisemission.com 93% 6. Paranormal Radio Talk Featuring Richard Hoagland and the ... Contact Richard Hoagland at [email protected]. Visit Richard Hoagland's website Enterprise Mission. [End]. Copyright 2004. http://www.psitalk.com/hoagland.html 93% 7. www.enterprisemission.com/images/IRUpdate/Thumbs.db http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/IRUpdate/Thumbs.db 93% 8. Black helicopters hover over Martian surface 2004/02/02 Letters 1+9 = conspiracy theory http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/02/black_helicopters_hover_over_martian/ 92% 9. -
Permanent Power by Arnold Hamilton As Ususal, the Pre-Legislative Ses- State District Judges Failed to Turn up Sion Rhetoric Was at Times Lofty
$2.50 25,000 Blue Chip Readers VOL. 41, NO. 2 An Independent Journal of Commentary JANUARY 25, 2009 GOP Takes Aim At Democrats Permanent Power By Arnold Hamilton As ususal, the pre-legislative ses- state district judges failed to turn up sion rhetoric was at times lofty. significant problems with frivolous House Speaker Chris Benge prom- lawsuits or overblown jury awards. ised an agenda that “promotes ideas Even so, Benge, Coffee and GOP leg- to move our state forward.” Senate islative leaders are working to devise President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee vowed a plan that would cut contingency to “deliver a new brand of government fees for trial lawyers – Coffee suggests in Oklahoma.” possibly capping them at 25%. Henry Their carefully-crafted, broad-brush vetoed a tort reform package in 2007 blueprints, however, belied an un- that would have capped non-economic mistakable, overarching goal of the damages [pain and suffering awards] Republican leadership that now con- at $300,000. trols both the House and Senate: per- In a throwback to the anti-union, manent political power. right-to-work campaign, Republican As the 2009 session opens with law- leaders proclaim tort reform would makers facing at least a $600 million throw open Oklahoma’s doors to budget shortfall, GOP strategists are business. pursuing an age-old, zero-sum politi- So what exactly did right-to-work cal game aimed at consolidating their produce? A few new lower paying jobs control of state government by crip- – distribution and call centers come pling Democrats for generations. to mind – but not the good-paying Republicans began successfully at- manufacturing jobs that historically tacking the Democratic coalition in were held by union members. -
Computing and Information Retrieval the Big Picture
Computing and Information Retrieval The Big Picture Amy N. Langville Department of Mathematics College of Charleston Charleston, SC DOE-CSGF Meeting 6/21/05 Outline • Introduction to Information Retrieval (IR) • Traditional and Web Search • Problems in Web Search • Innovations Short History of IR IR = search within doc. coll. for particular info. need (query) B. C. cave paintings 7-8th cent. A.D. Beowulf 12th cent. A.D. invention of paper, monks in scriptoriums 1450 Gutenberg’s printing press 1700s Franklin’s public libraries 1872 Dewey’s decimal system Card catalog 1940s-1950s Computer 1960s Salton’s SMART system (trad. search) 1989 Berner-Lee’s WWW (web search) Traditional Search Two Primary Goals: • Clustering documents • Processing user queries – find similar documents – find similar terms Vector Space Model (1960s and 1970s) Gerard Salton’s Information Retrieval System SMART: System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text (Salton’s Magical Automatic Retriever of Text) • turn n textual documents into n document vectors d1, d2, ..., dn ... • create term-by-document matrix Am×n = [ d1|d2| |dn ] • to retrieve info., create query vector q, which is a pseudo-doc GOAL: find doc. di closest to q T — angular cosine measure used: δi = cos θi = q di/(kqk2kdik2) Example from Berry’s book Terms Documents T1: Bab(y,ies,y’s) D1: Infant & Toddler First Aid T2: Child(ren’s) D2: Babies & Children’s Room (For Your Home ) T3: Guide D3: Child Safety at Home T4: Health D4: Your Baby’s Health & Safety : From Infant to Toddler T5: Home D5: Baby Proofing -
State Penal Reform?
$2.50 25,000 Blue Chip Readers VOL. 44, NO. 3 An Independent Journal of Commentary FEBRUARY 10, 2012 Prisons Are Overflowing State Penal Reform? By Frosty Troy One in 99 Americans festers in Council of State Governments Justice prison with the rate rising to one in Center on an in-depth analysis of the nine for young black men. America’s state’s criminal justice system. imprisoned population is 2.3 million. Few punitive laws are ever repealed, Violent crime is higher than it was 40 though the Supreme Court recently years ago. pared back a law against depriving the No other country is nearly as puni- public of “the intangible right of hon- tive as the “Land of the Free.” The rate est services” which prosecutors loved of incarceration is a fifth of America’s because they could use it against al- level in Britain, a ninth in Germany most anyone. Still, they have plenty and a 12th in Japan. of other weapons. Oklahoma ranks fourth in men be- As a result Oklahoma prisons are hind bars, first in the percentage of now packed not only with thugs and women in prison. Oklahoma has a rapists but also with petty thieves, staggering 26,000 in prison. small-time drug dealers and criminals A serious attempt has been made who, though scary when they were to keep imprisoned Oklahoma wom- young and strong, are now too grey en connected to their children. Some and arthritic to pose a threat. non-violent offenders are being re- Prison is expensive – $20,000 per leased with ankle monitors as well as inmate per year in Oklahoma. -
Google's Pagerank and Beyond
Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings Amy Langville [email protected] Department of Mathematics College of Charleston Charleston, SC UIUC 1/25/07 Outline • Introduction to Information Retrieval • Elements of a Search Engine • Link Analysis • Current Issues in Web Search • PageRank and You Short History of IR IR = search within doc. coll. for particular info. need (query) B. C. cave paintings 7-8th cent. A.D. Beowulf 12th cent. A.D. invention of paper, monks in scriptoriums 1450 Gutenberg’s printing press 1700s Franklin’s public libraries 1872 Dewey’s decimal system Card catalog 1940s-1950s Computer 1960s Salton’s SMART system 1989 Berner-Lee’s WWW the pre-1998 Web Yahoo • hierarchies of sites • organized by humans Best Search Techniques • word of mouth • expert advice Overall Feeling of Users • Jorge Luis Borges’ 1941 short story, The Library of Babel When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal or world problem whose eloquent solution did not exist in some hexagon. ... As was natural, this inordinate hope was followed by an excessive depression. The certitude that some shelf in some hexagon held precious books and that these precious books were inaccessible, seemed almost intolerable. 1998 ... enter Link Analysis Change in User Attitudes about Web Search Today • “It’s not my homepage, but it might as well be. I use it to ego-surf. I use it to read the news.