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Internet Censure in Turkey: A Computer
Engineering graduate has been appointed to head the committee
established due to the newly enacted law. The new law is meant to
organize all publications through Internet and to fight against the
crime committed through such dissemination. The news (in Turkish) is
here. Dated:
May 30, 2007. |
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Have you been disadvantaged through Internet banking?
"Virtual Banking Victims" is a brand new association of individuals and
institutions concerned with the rising rate of wrong-doings in the
Internet banking arena (Sanal
Banka Magdurlari Dernegi, in Turkish). A call for joining the
"Secure Internet Platform" is also being fostered by the association.
Dated: Jan.
06, 2007. |
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Pardus 2007, national Lynux version having
full Turkish support, is released on 18 December 2006) at 11 am.
Download site is here. Dated:
Dec. 22, 2006. |
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TUSIAD "Eğitim ve Sürdürülebilir Büyüme:
Türkiye Deneyimi, Riskler ve Fırsatlar" Report (in Turkish;
Education and Sustainable Development) is out.
Further
info at... Dated:
July 13, 2006. |
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E-Conversion Turkiye Project's
Info Society Strategy draft report (in Turkish) is out.
Further
info at... Dated:
July 13, 2006. |
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TUSIAD "AB Bilişim" Report (in
Turkish) is out.
Further
info at... Dated:
July 13, 2006. |
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5. Linux ve Özgür
Yazılım Şenliği (Festival of Linux & Free Software) is being
held on 11-14 May 2006 in Middle East Technical University, Ankara.
Further
info at... Dated:
May 09, 2006. |
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Dick Osseman's
Photo Gallery of TURKEY: 8300
photos from all over Turkey.
Dated:
Mar. 11, 2006. |
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1st European Land-Robot Trial 2006 (ELROB)
is an invitational unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) event organized
jointly by the German Federal Armed Forces and NATO, to take place in
Germany, 15-18 May 2006. Further
info at... Dated:
Feb. 17, 2006. |
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Turkish passports soon to carry RFID tags:
at...
Dated:
Feb. 15, 2006. |
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Pardus 1.0, Uludağ
Distribution national Linux donning full Turkish support never seen
before in any Linux is available as of Dec, 26, 2005 at
Uludağ site.
Read the news.
Flash News of Feb.5, 2005. ...
Dated: Dec.
17, 2005. |
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Free Software Magazine is
totally free now! You can download the whole magazine
at...
Dated:
Sept. 29, 2005. |
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China Shanghai
Jiao Tong University has been preparing a ranking of World universities.
2005 ranking list is now out. As may be expected, Harvard, Cambridge,
Stanford, U Cal-Berkeley, MIT, Cal Inst Tech, Columbia, Princeton,
Chicago, and Oxford line up in the top ten. Purdue is at 75; Istanbul &
Hacettepe are at 401-500 range. This ranking is predominantly based on
Nobel recipients, grant money, and prestigious research publications.
Istanbul & Hacettepe Univs make it to the list thanks to their strong
medical schools. Check details
at...
Dated:
Sept.
29, 2005. |
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Have things to sell? Perhaps you're looking
for something you need? For second hand goods on campus check details
at...
Dated: July
05, 2005. |
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A team of students from
Eastern Mediterranean College got
first place in a Web-Based Research Project competition
"International Schools Cyberfair" organized by Global School Net,
reported Kıbrıs Gazetesi on May 29, 2005 issue (page 12). Students Ülvan
ÖZAD, Zeki İLKAN, Açelya COŞAR, Sertuç TUNCEL, and Meltem BURAK were
organized by BT teacher Güncem KINAY and assisted by Librarian Sevim
EROL and BT Assistant Gökay ESER in preparing their project nick-named "Dance
of the Needle" on Lefkara Needleworks.
Dated: May
31, 2005. |
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The 29th annual ACM International
Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
World Finals, sponsored by IBM, took place and the winner is Shanghai
Jiao Tong University team. Check details
at...
Dated: May
22, 2005. |
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Uludağ National
Operating System Initiative has announced the availability of Pardus
Working CD. Pardus is a Linux distribution having Linux kernel, Internet
tools, office tools, multimedia and graphics tools, and many
applications; and it works off CD! Pardus is open source and GNU GPL
distribution. For further detail. ...
Dated: Feb.
05, 2005. |
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SEMANTIC WEB DAY: Open House is on January
27, 2005 at the Amphitheater. Check the
program. All interested are welcome.
Dated: Jan. 19, 2005. |
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The Ankara Branch of the
Chamber of Electrical Engineers was
burglarized on January 11 resulting in the loss of 5 PC's used for admin
affairs which included fee payment processing as well.
Banking VPOS software together with all the credit card information of
members were among the loss. Members were informed through cellular
messages advising them to report any unauthorized charge and cancel
suspect cards immediately. This created quite a havoc. By now it's clear
that so far no misuse took place and the personal info of the members
were being maintained in a "safe" computer in a well-protected part of
the office. Congratulations, for the time being! Read the Chamber's
official announcement
(TR).
Dated: Jan. 18, 2005. |
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European Union: "the most distinguished Prize for innovative
products and services in the field of Information Society Technologies":
The European IST Prize.
Applications are due by 12 May 2005.
Take a look at the previous
winners or read about (from 2004)
winners for 2005 (local
copy).
Dated: Jan. 14, 2005. |
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The complete list of hoax messages is
here. Or, check at
WebCrawler.
Dated: Jan. 14, 2005. |
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TÜSİAD and TBV has
announced the Second e-TR Awards consisting of 12 e-Government and 5
e-Local Governement projects.
Further detail is
here.
Dated: Jan. 11, 2005. |
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Microsoft is going to recruit multiple
"Software Design Engineer" and "Software Design Engineer in Test". Those
interested should send their CV in English to turkres@microsoft.com
ASAP.
Further detail is here.
Dated: Dec. 18, 2004. |
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"Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume
One" is a W3C Recommendation:
W3C has announced "Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One" as
W3C Recommendation. For
further info on Web architecture activity at W3C, visit the
TAG home page.
Dated: Dec. 18, 2004. |
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Architecture of the World Wide Web Is a W3C
Proposed Recommendation:
W3C has announce the advancement of "Architecture of the World Wide Web,
First Edition" to
Proposed
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 3 December. Visit the
TAG home page.
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Following the shifting of its operations on
to a new setup on October 18, 2004,
Ziraat Bankası experienced
considerable backlog and delays in serving its online banking terminals
all over Turkey (see
Ziraat's apology). A
personal explanation of how it
all developed is given by an expert involved in the Linux portion of the
changeover in a mailing list of the Turkish
Linux Users Association.
Ziraat's GM says its almost over!
A note in defense
of Linuxists' part in the event.
All in Turkish. The plot is thickening; we'll be in pursuit!.
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IEEE Computer Society's Sixth Annual
Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC
2005) has been announced. Student teams are expected to design and
implement computer-based solutions to real-world problems. The theme of
this year's CSIDC is Going
Beyond the Boundaries. Application
deadline is 1st November 2004. Check details ASAP.
CSIDC
2004 winners.
Home of CSIDC.
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Turkish daily
Akşam ran a note on Forbes Magazine's "The
400 Richest Americans- 2004" survey under "Youngest Billionaires"
banner. Top seat goes to who else but Bill Gates with 48 b$ while Paul
Allen of Microsoft makes it to 3rd spot. Michael Dell of Dell Computer
lands at 9th and Joseph Ellison of Oracle is tenth in the top 10.
Google's creators Sergey Brin and Larry E. Page are the youngest
billionaires at age 31 sharing 43rd spot with 4 b$ each. Do check their
bios and accomplishments.
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This year’s
TR100-
Technology Review’s selection of 100 top innovators under 35 is
out. Awarded with the recognition, there are researchers and
practitioners around the World. Take a look at the bio of those in the
Computing list.
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Two of our students were accepted to attend
Microsoft Summer
School this summer in Izmir. Taner Yıldız and Efe Cem Elçi
successfully completed the program.
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Big success by EMU student divers: see the
news coverage and results.
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Our student Kıvanç ÖZÜÖLMEZ's project got first place in "Bilişen Türkiye 2004"
competition. Kıvanç's project was selected as one of the three finalists
before the conference organized by TBD Genç,
the youth arm of the Turkish Informatics Association. The Conference
istaking place on 7-9 May 2004 in İstanbul.
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METU Computer Club-
VIIth
Traditional Programming Competition
sponsored by Sun Microsystems Turkey and Cybersoft, Ankara, Turkey.
C / C++
geeks: flash your programming muscle. Check Selection Questions or try
your might at past events' competition puzzles. All content is in
Turkish.
Originally,
the competition was open only to students within the borders of
Turkey. I talked the technical team into allowing students in TRNC
universities as well. Please give it an
earnest try.
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ACM-
Student Research Competition
sponsored by Microsoft Research.
Check "About
SRC" and "Participate" menu tabs. Your chance to show off at
prestigious conferences of SIGPLAN, SIGSCE, SIGGRAPH, others. Various
dates.
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ACM-
International Collegiate
Programming Contest '05 sponsored
by
IBM.
2003
Regionals are over and the 2004 World Final is on 28 March - 1 April
2004 in Prague. 2004 Regionals will be announced soon.
Advance
registration begins April 14, 2004.
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Users group Sitebuilders has announced a competition to redesign its
site. You can pitch in your complete site design by 01 September 2004.
Winner gets a PDA and training. Requirements contribution will be
accepted until 05 August after which a terms of reference document will
be made available. Click
here for info (in Turkish). |
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Linux Made in Turkey Uludağ Project
is aiming to produce an open source national operating system with rich
Turkish support and based on Linux kernel. Product will be available by
end 2004 and openly distributed. It's reported that
TÜBİTAK's Ulusal Elektronik ve Kriptoloji
Araştırma Enstitüsü is working to prepare a distribution based on
Uludağ for use by Turkish Armed Forces. (Site in
Turkish). |
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Turkish Informatics Association (TBD)
Science Fiction Short Story Competition has been announced. Last
day to pitch in stories is 06 August. Take a look at
the RFP. |
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Results
of the 3rd Altın Örümcek Web
Competition have been announced. Organized under the auspices of
Doruk Net and Microsoft Turkey, this competition aims to foster better
project practices in Web and internet applications. |
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Presentations are now available of the Microsoft Research Academic
Days meeting that took place in Istanbul on 26-28 May.: Following
speaker data, you can find links to presentations. |
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C# has just become of age, yet its sequel is already ready! See
Cω (Comega or Cw)
for yourself. While you're there, check other experimental languages
being worked on by Microsoft Research's
Programming Principles
and Tools Group. |
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KOBİLİŞİM TV on air on
Wednesdays at 21.30 on Digiturk /Expo Channel! Reruns on Saturdays. |
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Turkey's first Linux TV program is being
aired on Digiturk / Technology Channel every Monday starting 22 Dec. at
20:30 hours. Details:
http://www.pengueningunlugu.com
(Turkish). |
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Sitebuilders TV on air DAILY on Digiturk / Technology Channel! |
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Java Comes of Age
by Simon White | 2004-04-07 |
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Java
1.5 is out, and the language has finally come of age! With the new
Java 1.5 specification, Java now contains features that make it feel
like a proper "grown-up" language. The rest of this article will
introduce you to these new features. To try out the features for
yourself, simply download Java 1.5 from Sun’s website and give it a
whirl. Note that you’ll need to compile the code using the –source
1.5 option; otherwise, you’ll get compilation errors when using the
new features.
Read
the full article here. |
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Microsoft
Project
Competition: check
subjects.
Last day to apply is 31 March 2004.
National winners take part in Microsoft
ImagineCup Competition. |
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European Union:
anti-spam rules in force. Check
its purpose and what may be relevant to you. |
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Fighting Plagiarism in
Universities:
Colleges'
war against cheats goes high-tech. |
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One million dollars prize will go to the
winner team of self cruised vehicles for 450 km from Los Angeles to Las
Vegas: The very first race of self-controlled cars started on 13 March.
For more info, click DARPA logo in the
GrandChallenge.org Site.
NB: This is a project activity of US DARPA. PS: Update on 14 March:
The competition turned out such a flop that no one even imagined it!
Original race track was for 450 miles but was reduced to 142 miles prior
to the event. Yet, no team traveled more than 8 miles! Check the
composition of teams and be impressed by the mighty names. This event
must be remembered as the saddest day of AI work. |
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Hear the Sun(-y) Side:
Sun Net
Talks:
-> January
20th: Right Sizing Your IT Infrastructure: Up or Out?
-> January
27th: EMEA Net Talk: Is Sun's Java Enterprise System Changing the
Economics of Software?
-> January
28th: Deploying the Java Enterprise System |
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US Federal Anti-Spam Bill has been signed and goes into effect
January 1, 2004. |
1. "Curiosita" (curiosity), 2. "Dimastrazione"
(experimentation), 3. "Sensazione" (feelings), 4. "Sfumato" (chaos / change
management) , 5. "Arte / Scienza" (art / science ballance), 6. "Corporalita"
(incorporation), 7. "Connesione" (connections).
"Success and experience are like
the two faces of a coin; you can not have one without the other."
"The idea is this: When an
entity acts, he acts from within; he acts through an expenditure in greater or
less degree of his own native energy. This expenditure of energy, this
outflowing of energy, as it impacts upon the surrounding milieu, the nature
around us, brings forth from the latter perhaps an instantaneous or perhaps a
delayed reaction or rebound. Nature, in other words, reacts against the impact;
and the combination of these two -- of energy acting upon nature and nature
reacting against the impact of that energy -- is what is called karma, being a
combination of the two factors. Karma is, in other words, essentially a chain of
causation, stretching back into the infinity of the past and therefore
necessarily destined to stretch into the infinity of the future. It is
unescapable, because it is in universal nature, which is infinite and therefore
everywhere and timeless; and sooner or later the reaction will inevitably be
felt by the entity which aroused it."
G. de Purucker, Occult Glossary: A Compendium of Oriental and Theosophical
Terms, Theosophical University Press.
Must
not forget: real effect is the side effect.
Altay ÖKTEM, p. 15, Hayvan-
Aylık Paldır Kültür Dergisi, 18 Nov 2003.
