Day archives: September 19th, 2015

InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure

Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford, Joel Sommers, Walter Willinger – ACM [Association for Computing Machinery]. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2785956.2787499 “The complexity and enormous costs of installing new long-haul fiber-optic infrastructure has led to a significant amount of infrastructure sharing in previously installed conduits. In this paper, we study the characteristics and implications of infrastructure sharing by analyzing the …

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Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management

Comparing American and European Innovation Cultures

STEPHEN EZELL – The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), US; PHILIPP MARXGUT Office of Science and Technology Austria – Washington, US “The evolution of the political economy of innovation has differed between the United States and Europe, write Stephen Ezell and Philip Marxgut of the Austrian Office of Science and Technology in a chapter …

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Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

EPA, California Notify Volkswagen of Clean Air Act Violations

News release: “[September 19, 2015], EPA is issuing a notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (collectively referred to as Volkswagen). The NOV alleges that four-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009-2015 include software that circumvents EPA emissions …

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Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Investigative report details destruction of Canadian government documents

MacLean’s – Vanishing Canada: Why we’re all losers in Ottawa’s war on data – Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean’s investigation on the crisis in government data, by Anne Kingston, September 18, 2015. “A months-long Maclean’s investigation, which includes interviews with dozens of academics, scientists, statisticians, economists and librarians, has found that the …

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Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Data – California drought will worsen in coming years

OnEarth: “California’s current three-year drought seems terrible, but everything is relative. The moist, lush California we’re used to represents a moment in time—a golden age for the Golden State. A millennium ago, its droughts were longer, drier, and more damaging than anything the United States has seen in its short lifetime. And those massive droughts …

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Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents
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