ACTLab TV summer of fun is back on, during the month of July we will be here M-Th 9-2pm (with lunch fun at 11am). If you want to come learn more about the ACTLab, this is a great time to drop by and just “hang out”.
Archive for the ‘Academic’ category
The Last Hope – Talk Schedule Announced
June 20th, 2008
The talk schedule for The Last Hope has finally been announced and can be found here. The schedule is currently sitting at a healthy 97 talks (thats right, ninety-seven) spread over the three day event. Featured talks include the ever boisterous Jello Biafra, the ever interesting Kevin Mitnick, Steven Rambam (as long as [...]
Botnet Antibiotics
April 29th, 2008
It looks like someone has been reading Brandon’s work!
Slashdot today is looking at the latest and baddest botnet, Kraken and how it might be stopped using a few tricks from our own Brandon Wiley. This is linked back to a previous discussion on the same topic back in February where Curious Yellow is [...]
ACTLab New Media Talk Series- Peer to Peer Networks
April 21st, 2008
Peer to Peer networks have had a huge impact on how New Media studies have progressed, how individuals consume and companies think about their markets. This talk gives you low down on how peer-to-peer networks function, how they are being used and how they came to be. Brandon Wiley (2nd to talk) gives a stunning [...]
One Step Closer to the Metaverse
April 15th, 2008
Linden Labs is bringing Second Life one step closer to Gibson’s Snow Crash’s Metaverse:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/controlling-secondli.html
Time to start practicing my samurai swordplay.
New Media Talk Series, Part 2
April 15th, 2008
Last Friday we put on the second in a series of three talks on New Media. The topic of the evening was Online Communities and in just over an hour we were able to travel all the way from IRC to browser based multiplayer games and wound up at a car show.
If you missed the [...]
