cloud computing

An interesting new book -- The Tower and The Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing -- has been published by Educause. The term "cloud computing" is usually used to refer to applications that run on remote systems in "the cloud" rather than on desktop computers or to the storage of files remotely rather than locally, but the book defines the term more broadly, including open-source software and social-networking tools. The full book is available online as a free PDF.

Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

Wired Science has a post on Google's plan to host open-source scientific datasets through a project called Palimpset. The post includes links to a number of documents and other posts.

ArchaeoInformatics Virtual Lecture Series

The Archaeoinformatics Consortium has announced their 2007-2008 Virtual Lecture Series schedule, where archaeologists describe their successful cyberinfrastructure efforts and innovators from other disciplines present information on their cyberinfrastructure initiatives and strategies that may be useful to archaeology.

These lectures are presented every other week using the Access GRID video conferencing system. It is also possible to participate in the lectures by downloading the presentation slides and participating via a telephone bridge. Information on how to connect to the Access GRID system and alternatives are provided at http://archaeoinformatics.org/lecture_series.html. The lectures from the 2006-2007 series and this year’s lectures are also available as streaming video from the archaeoinformatics web site.