Aus der Google-Pressemeldung:


Vinton (Vint) Cerf Foto: Google

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - September 8, 2005 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:
GOOG) today announced that it hired Vinton (Vint) Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a "founding father" of the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist.

"Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt of Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that were used to develop the Internet's underlying architecture. "His vision for technology helped create entire industries that have transformed many parts of our lives. We are honored to welcome him to Google."

Cerf will continue his leadership in the Internet community, and help Google build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards for the next generation of Internet applications.

"Google has already made tremendous strides in making access to information on the web a reality for users across the globe, but we're still in the Internet's early innings," he said. "This medium will enjoy wider-spread use than television, radio or phones, and will ultimately expand beyond planet Earth. Google has always believed in doing things differently, and I believe that places us in a unique position to help bring even the wildest Internet visions into reality."

Cerf joins Google from MCI, where he led technology advancements since 1982, with a break to return to research at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives from 1986 to 1994. On his return to MCI in 1994, he helped to put MCI on the Internet map. With Robert Kahn, he recently received the ACM's A.M. Turing Award, considered "the Nobel Prize for computing," for his achievements in computer networking. Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Network, a project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, which aims to extend the Internet into outer space for planet-to-planet communications. He will also continue in his role as the Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Please visit http://www.google.com/press/images.html for video sound bites from Vint Cerf about this announcement.

Oder auch hier: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/google

more can be done, and Katrina proved that despite 9/11, the U.S. is still terribly ill prepared to handle a major disaster. It is scary to contemplate how well the country would respond to even greater disasters, such as one induced by a future and even more deadly terrorist attack.

Aus dem Becker-Posner-Blog

Fotos: © Cybi

"We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.

We built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever,
but have less communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods
but slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room."

by Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama

Auf Grund der grossen Nachfrage wird der Besuch Seiner Heiligkeit des Dalai Lama an der Universität Zürich live übertragen. Wer für das Neurowissenschaftliche Symposium mit dem Dalai Lama keine Tickets mehr erhalten hat, kann das Symposium im Internet verfolgen.

Spitzenforscher der Universität Zürich präsentieren ihre Schwerpunktthemen und stellen sie im Gespräch mit S.H. dem Dalai Lama zur Diskussion.

Die Universität Zürich überträgt den Anlass am 3. August von 10 Uhr bis 12 Uhr unter http://www.unizh.ch.

Das Programm des Symposiums:

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome by Prof. Kevan Martin (Chairperson)
10:05 - 10:15 Dr. Thupten Jinpa Langri: Buddhist View on Modern Neuroscience
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:35 Prof. Jürg Kesselring: Neurobiology and Spirituality ? Contradiction or Complement?
10:35 - 10:45 Discussion
10:45 - 10:55 Prof. Lutz Jäncke: Music and Plasticity of the Brain
10:55 - 11:05 Discussion
11:05 - 11:15 Prof. Roger Nitsch: Alzheimer's Disease
11:15 - 11:25 Discussion
11:25 - 11:35 Prof. Rolf Pfeifer: Intelligence: Connecting Brain, Body and Environment
11:35 - 11:45 Discussion
11:45 - 12:00 Final discussion on all presentations and concluding remarks by His Holiness The Dalai Lama

(Quelle: Uni Zürich - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft)

Sehr interessanter Artikel zu den Ausselllungen im Völkerkundemuseum in Zürich von Sascha Renner: Unverklärter Blick auf das Phänomen «Dalai Lama» - Quelle: UniPublic Uni Zürich

Pressekonferenz des Dalai Lama in Zürich.

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