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From Clay Shirky’s “Thinking About Networks” syllabus:
Communications networks are invisible in the traditional sense; their inner workings are hidden inside devices, behind walls and underground, or pass silently through the air. We will examine a variety of electronic networks — telegraph, telephones, internet — and design philosophies — client-server, lattice, peer-to-peer — and explore the [...]

Posted on October 11th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis from 1985-1989, and a graduate student in English Lit. from 1989-1996. During that time, I racked up my share of library fines (not hard to do when the fines were $0.10 a day, per book), a couple of times into three digits. In fact, I [...]

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
Filed under: True Stories | Comments Off