Q through T

fascinating
Look what google ads gave me, on a thread of emails re: wikipedia --

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/12/02_sims.shtml

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BERKELEY – The appointment of two renowned researchers to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information Management & Systems (SIMS) has been announced by SIMS Dean AnnaLee Saxenian.

Geoffrey Nunberg is a leading researcher in information and linguistics and a well-known print and broadcast commentator on language, and Paul Duguid is internationally known for his research in organizational knowledge. They have been co-teaching a course on "Information Quality" this semester.

Saxenian said the two came to SIMS because they share common interests in information technology as well as backgrounds in the social sciences and humanities, and they want to raise funds for a major SIMS research project exploring critical issues relating to online information quality.

"This is a huge issue for everybody," Saxenian said, noting that over the centuries, since the introduction of the printing press, society has developed mechanisms such as peer review and other standards to help readers determine the quality of print material.

"But online, we're kind of in the dark," she said.

Duguid and Nunberg will teach undergraduate and graduate classes on "The History of Information" in the fall of 2006, exploring historical episodes in the creation, storage, manipulation and use of information, with a focus on the interplay between technology and society.
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methinks I need to make some friends at Berkeley.

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