Writer's Block!

This is it...I have no idea what to write about, but I'm going to blog again. I haven't posted since June, 7 2008 - now I feel the pressure. This is my second attempt as I deleted the first attempt due to "lack of interest" in the title. I must say, I will continue to write about the day to day journey of a life walking with God.

/Windows Vs Resistance/

Which operating system do you use in your computer? Probably you are using windows serise developed by microsoft co. About ten years ago, Windows had lots of errors and there were also the other operating systems. But now it became the operating system itself for most people, and microsoft is running alone without a rival. Some people is worrying that microsoft monopolized the market. But there are some resistance against windows. Examples of resistance are
virus
trojan horse
worm
bomb
back door. We are going to look into those more.

In computer technology, a virus is not just a kind of germ that can cause disease. It is a program that introduces itself into a system, altering or destroying the information stored in the system.
A Trojan horse is a computer virus which is inserted into a program or system and is designed to take effect after a particular period of time or a certain number of operations.
A worm is a computer program that contains a virus which duplicates itself many times in a network.

Let me tell you about The Robert Morris' Internet Worm. When he was 23 year old, he wanted to measure how big internet is. So he made worm virus, the result was the worm virus made internet stop because of some error in the worm virus. Now he is a MIT professor. This is the worm virus in a diskette.



And another thing is a open-source. Have you ever heard about Linux? Linux is typical open source software which is free and everyone can share. These things are preventing monopolization. That was a Good lecture and the last class. I thank to Dr. Yoon for the great classes. Thank you.

do I have a PRIVACY?

Let me tell you the story that I've heard about the law of U.S. Under the age 13, it is prohibited to let the children alone. They must be with guardian- parents or anyone who is over 13. Is that reasonable? I think that is a good way of keeping their children safe. I saw lot of young babysisters in the movies and I wondered why they were doing that. Now I see what it is. Then do you think boys and girls under 14 in USA have no privacy?
Let's talk about Privacy and Public.

yes, the people in a prison absolutely have less freedom than people outside have. so they are watched by surveillance sistems. Even by the cameras in Manhattan, you can be watched where you are, what you are doing. then what can be a privacy? not being seen? nowdays the concept is getting confusing.
Here what they define of.
•1.
–a. the quality or state of being apart from company or observation
–b. SECLUSION: freedom from unauthorized intrusion one's
•2. archaic : a place of seclusion


And/ on architectureof privacy Lawrence Lessig said, life where less is monitored is a life more private; and life where less can be searched is also a life more private. Cookies have information about where you visited, Id and password. that was designed for the convenience, but now it raises the issue of privacy. With this problem Mac computer developed safari for private browsing.
Have you been to wal Mart or a Big supermarket? then you can see the lower selves filling with chocolates, candies and lots of sweetis. it is kind of results of data mining. The owner knows who likes sweetie and who is going to buy that. so they put the sweeites lower selves near the cash box. Datamining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits,
and then is used to make an estimate.
well done! the point of today's class is that private life is getting less and less. Thanks, Mr.Yoon.

It's time to talk about HUMAN.^^

We are human-beings. But,

We've been talked about some technology stuff, like memex, www and ai. Now it's time to focus our attention on Human. Human beings invented lots of prosthesis, which is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part. Prostheses are typically used to replace parts lost by injury or missing from birth or to supplement defective body parts. So if you just wear lenses on your eyes, you are using prosthesis. Same way using keyboard, you would not think where the letter is on the keyboard all the time, you just type what you want to write without that. Kinaesthetic is the term of this state.

Here, some categories to think about Human beings. Gender, race, sexualiy and class. Class means poor or rich. Among that, the best sensitive category is class. Because the rich would inherit an artificial gene which would be so expensive one between themselves.

Do you know what this animal is? It is a chimera. In Greek mythology, a chimera is a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snack. It does not belong any of those.
LIKE CYBORG. A cyborg is not just a robot, it's more a being that is part human and part machine, or a machine that looks like a human being.
Donna Haraway used this to support her theory. She earned a degree in Zoology and Philosophy and completed her Ph. D. from the Biology.
A Cyborg Manifesto, Haraway has been described as a feminist. In 1985, Haraway published the essay A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century in "Simians, Cyborgs and Women". Although most of Haraway’s earlier work is focused on emphasizing the masculine bias in scientific culture, she has also contributed greatly to feminist narratives of the twentieth century. I think she is a really smart and charming woman.
Let's call it a day. Thank you for the good lecture, Dr.Yoon.

R U a GOOD game player?

Looking back into my childhood, I wasn't the one who is crazy about video games. One reason is that my mother wasn't good enough to give me such a expensive that one. So I used to play with my friends in the yard. For me~ COMPUTER GAMEs ?? It doesn't makes me feel excited. I mean just not for me, but OK you would. Do you like playing computer games?

Yes, I think there was a computer game I loved, STARCRAFT, that is a real big one. What do you think makes a good game? There should be lots of reasons, but I would mention the two important reasons, play and story. Here is what Rand Miller, co-creator of Myst and Riven, said about his new game :
"One of the reasons I think Myst was successful was that people are used to being entertained with stories. There're lots of ways to entertain, but the two primary ones are story—which is television and movies and books and all that—and the other is game play —blackjack and football and Parcheesi. There’re other ones, but those are two we are very familiar with. I think the mass market audience is more familiar with story. The first campfire the guys on the hunt come back with a story to tell--that is something anybody can partake in.”


Let us talk about Identification and Space. Have you imaged that you were the hero when you played a video game? You would've felt like that. Identification through action has a special kind of hold. Like playing a sport, it puts people into a highly focused, and highly charged state of mind. So Sherry Turkle thought video games as metaphysical machines ,as perfect mirrors, as drugs, as contests. What do you think makes boys like games much more than girls do around 1980s? in the other expression, what’s a boy’s space?
is it a place where boys can...
–enjoy lurid images?
–prove themselves with stunts?
–gain mastery?
–(re)produce hierarchies?
–vent aggressive feelings?/ like this...

Then, what's a Girl's space? It is a space of secrets and romance.
Some examples of that , the video game Tom lader, Rara Craft, inbodys everythings not just only video games itself, but also objectives who is gonna play the game. And the movie matrix, Neo, as well?

With grows of game industry, conversation between family is being stopped. Then what is the duty for us? Making good games which is developing for mental training? Then nobody would feel interested with that game. Confusing things. Anyways, Media makes people, too.
Thanks for the good lecture.^^

Big Helpers, computer.

Nowdays, Computers.are very helpful for us in every ways. It was surprising for me that kindergartens now have some cameras for the parents of the students to let them see their children through the internet. That means the parents can see their children playing, eating - how they are. That is a good system using computer aid. With developing computer aid, a part of the surveillance become an important issue. How can we make more efficient and safely works? Actually, big companies like LG and Samsung do not allow the workers to use email or messager during the work even in the company.


Let us see two pictures.



The first one shows us a history of surveillance. It's a panopticon developed by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century for prison. There is a watchtowel which made prisons think that they were under surveillance. This system is regarded effective. The other one is also an examples of the surveillance. That is a salt plant at arc-et-senans (1779)-a hierarchical organization of work -as the same way.

We can see the effecient ways of the surveillance in real situations, then how can we make efficient in the cybespace? one way would be making the bandwidth of a network bigger so it is as easy to upload a file as it is to download a file.
And computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is a field of research and design which investigate how people work together in groups, and design computer-systems and networks to enable or facilitate group work. Practitioners, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores present a methodology for CSCW analysis and design and says that conversations are sequences of actions because by saying things people are understood to be doing things. Confusing thing.
I need to pay more attention to the lecture cause I couldn't think lots of thinks that i've learned in the class. Cheer up, daeung. and thanks for the good lucture.

Human and Computer can talk?

Computers use 0 and 1 -the binary system which is based on truth table- to execute whatever the user types out. To make it more clear there are some process like complier to interpreter to computer language computers can understand. Actually I am not the expert in this part, but it really has. the KEYBOARD is a medium to make people and computer can communicate each other. i mean keyboard is one of the result of HCI, the study how human interact with computer. It is often regarded as the intersection of computer science, design and several other fields of study. Interaction between users and computers occurs at the interface, which includes both software and hardware.Because human-computer interaction studies a human and a machine in conjunction, it draws from supporting knowledge on both the machine and the human side. On the machine side, techniques in computer graphics, operating systems, programming languages are relevant. On the human side, communication theory, linguistics,and human performance are relevant. And, of course, engineering and design methods are relevant.

Long years ago, looking at the history of HCI as tools people like
–Vannevar Bush: memex
–Doug Engelbart: mouse, GUI, word processing, etc.
–Ted Nelson: hypertext
–Alan Kay: object-oriented programming, laptops

are focused on implements: tools.

Here I have a silly question that which one came first, the egg or the chicken? you would not want to answer that. Then what do you think of this sentence that people often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people. That is true, though. Some movies inspire people to have better ergonomical technologes, so with develped technology, people can make practical science fiction films.

The last thing, do you know what Ethnomethodology means? According to the ppt simply it means the study of the ways in which people make sense of their social world. Nowdays Ethnomethodology is a fairly recent sociological perspective, founded by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel in the early 1960s. And Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. This clss was pretty hard to have a fully understanding, because of lots of confusing concepts and scientific terms. But good thing is, pro.Yoon revises what we've learned in korean before the class is dismissed. Thank you.^^

What is think?

Have you thought about what think is? Does that mean judge, consider or estimate? Then, if computers consider things, solve problems, or make decisions in a particular way, can we say computers THINK? This concept is artificial intelligence so called AI. Alan Turing is the founder of computer science -artificial intelligence-, though he was a gay man. I think my professer Yoon was generous with homosexuality. I also know some people who are gays, i agree they are kind, but i have some bad idea about homosexuality. That is my opinion. Anyway, he was one of the great genius, but he suicided when he was 42 because of his homosexuality.
He created “imitation game" which computer roles of the woman, and a client guess who is a real woman. If the computer could trick the client, does that mean computer can think? That was his basic idea of AI. Also he made the first computer, universal machine, to use Breaking of U-boat Enigma in 1936. Finaly they did won the second world war.

Here, what Marvin Minsky defined artificial intelligence in 1963 is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence as if done by humans. One example of AI is Hanoi Tower Problem-planning as a technical problem. but people think computer never can be smarter than human being, because computers can make plan as programed, if it get a unexpected situation, not programed, it will show us error message. Computer can not solve problems in real world.
Next class is no class for preparing my first mid-term exam. mid-term exam in honored system.
Here some expected questions which i have to study.

1.When do digital media technologies become media?
2.What do technologies embody today?
3.What are the laptop computer’s politics? Write down at least three.
4.Computers can take many different material forms. What are those examples? (the innovators and their theory title and machine name)
5.What is memex?
6.What are new media and old media? Write down as coupled forms.
7.What is the relationship between new media and old media?
8.What are two common computer technologies of the 1960s?
9.What are Douglas Engelbart’s inventions?
10.What is WWW? (3 definitions in the class)
11.What is Stanley Milgram’s proposition in social network?
12.Explain two major social capitals.
13.Which social capital can the global school of media be? Then, why?
14.What was Google’s page rank algorithms for popular web pages?
15.What is ‘Turing Test (imitation game)’?
16.What is ‘artificial intelligence’ by Marvin Minsky?
17.What are research areas in artificial intelligence?
18.What is ‘GPS(General Problem Solver)’?
19.What is ‘Frame Problem’?
20.What is ‘micro-talespin’?
21.What is ‘FRUMP’?
22.What is ‘ELIZA’?
23.What is ‘Huge Harry’?
24.Is David (Haley Joel Osment in the film A.I.) a human? Why? or Why not?

Thank you.^^

Do you have a internet friend?

A couple of years ago, cyworld was boomed very much. Everybody has their own blog and visited their friend's blogs. I was one of them who found it interesting. what do you think it makes people crazy about it? I think it was so fun for them to make relatives in the web. Also without spending lots of time, they could see their friends in the web. Cyworld ,New media technology, reinforced existing social networks, but also worked to isolate people. You may know what i mean.
Here, when you do cyworld, you probably visited your friend's friend's blog, forthemore friend's friend's friend's blog as well. There was a funny experiment by Stanley Milgram in 1967 “The Small World Problem”. the thing is that he sent 60 letters to his friends in some area and asked to forward the letter to the wife of someone living at a specified location where is far from his friend's ,who was asked, area. His friends was also asked only pass the letters by hand. The funny thing is that most time, the letter was delivered in six steps. It is called “six-degrees of separation”. Is that funny?

Okay, Let's talk about Amazon, onlive shopping website. My professor Yoon bought several books there. i think those was related to his studying - I mean some specific field. After that Amazon recommanded he buy some books which is relatived in that field, too. That was amazing How amazon knows Dr.Yoon's interesting and could recommand some books.
Amazon gathered his information like his intersing and what he has bought. They used recommender systems; amazon.com’s feature: “People who bought this book also bought the others".
Another example of gathering information is a Google search engine. when you type out Bush to search some information about it, Google search engine just do not show us some websites hyperlinked to Bush. it connect us to webpages considered popular. What makes it possible is Google’s Page Rank algorithm gives more weight to popular webpages. Very smart.
Think about that if you are a manager of some company, you would want to know whole system of the company, not detail part of it. In the same way, there is a cybergeography like a map visualizing networks. It could be helpful for them who are interested in knowing whole pattern in networks. Thank you for the lecture. ^^

The Great ㅈㅈㅈ`WWW

Can you live without WWW? I am sure to answer 'NO'.
Everybody knows about WWW. If I ask you whether you know about www, you probablely say 'yes', but again asking you to explain what it is? Would you be able to do that? Yes, it is a tough question. Looking up the word in a dictionary, it says the World Wide Web is a computer system which links a documents and pictures and pictures into a database that is stored in computors in many different parts of the world and that people everywhere can use. The abbreviations WWW and Web are often used.
As Dr.Yoon says, The WWW is a collaboratively authored hypertext and a standard. Also it is a vast, heterogeneous - means something (an object or system) consists of a diverse range of different items- network of people and machines. Assume that someone wrote a little in a paper and turns to the next person, and then he read it and wrote a little as well, and so on. This concept is collaboratively authered text. Also because of using a computer language HTML, it can be a standard.
And do you know who wrote the www standards? There is a national institutes called ISO-
international standards organization-. People who belong to the ISO create the standards in many fields. Actually they have created over 12,000 standards. The amazing(?) thing is that how much do you think they pay even to join to there? People who want to join pay $63,500 a year to get a full membership. That's a big money i think, but it would be worthy to them, not to me.


Next question, which one do you think is first, a baby's name or birth of the baby? Someone may already decide his or her baby's name before the baby is born. The other hands, when a baby is born, their mother and father give him a name. In the same way, not only people make media, but also media make people. This is kinds of funny thing, but it is true. This all things I learned this week was fun and interesting. Lovely week 4. Thank you for the lectures, Yoon. ^^

Super-super genius Engelbart.

Can you imagine how well Engelbart smart is? He is a real genius, i think. In the 1960s there was nothing, i mean no mouse, no moniter, there was just standard computer i/o such as hollerith cards and paper printouts. But, he imagined some concepts like
•the mouse
•2d display editing
•hypermedia & hypermedia email
•outline processing •multiple window displays


and he even made a demo given to 1000 at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco with computers and support staff. Here some pictures of what he Invented.




I am still wondering how he could've thought those things, even thought he used Bush's premise. It became the orgin of the personal computer, and made a great effect in the computer technology.
A topic for his speech in the demo, he needed to find some supporter. so you could find his speech speculative and reporting style. when i saw it, i wished to have the same one like his.


Good. i'd like to talk about hypertext a little bit more. What do you think about hyper, and then
hypertext? Hyper means actually, as we know, form adjectves that describe something a little above the surface. then, Hypertext means, should be something on the letters of moniter? i hope we all agree that hypertext is a way of connecting pieces of text so that you can go quickly and directly from one to another. Dr.Yoon also said that one way that digital media has been understood as a new forms of writting, reading and thinking.

This lecture was a little hard for me to all understand that, because some ideas of this lecture was difficult and the class was a little speedy. but i like this class. Always fun.
thank you.^^

Wow! the first class of info-technology

i always feel excited when i do something new. As always, i got a big excitement in the first class of info-technology. the professor is dr. Joonsung Yoon. He is a nice Guy, i guess. His hair stlye got my attention and it seemed to me cool. i wanted to have the same one. just kidding.^^

In the first class, i learned about the key point - Media and Embody-. Then, what is media?
The professor said that digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media. Yes, i agree that. Media could be everything that we can comunicate through. The second one, what is Embody? in the other expression, it means 'to include'. He used the expression that
Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships. Here the funny thing is, do you know how artists in the middle ages used the natual colors to paint in the wall? they used white eggs as a medium. Is that interesting?
In the same way, is a car a medium?
we had lots of discusston about it, regarding connect or separate. and I answered that it could be like a death and alive. Our class is reactive and fun.

And second class this week, before the class, we had to read the aticle 'As We May Think' written by Vannevar Bush. That was the reading assignment of the first class. Ew, that was very long, over 10 pages. even there were too many words that i don't know. to be honest, the artcle was too hard for me to understand whole contents. But what the article is saying about is that Bush, MIT professor, invented differential analyzer which is designed for storing information and searching it quickly. when he had an idea of that machine, he wished that the machine could be used as one method to... He also thought the method at that time was not satisfying to keep pace with thinking speed. anyways, that was a big invention. i wonder how Bush could thought that concept at those time? He must've been a genius.^^
I like this class. It's fun and active, eventhough i have a bad english. But i am sure my english will be better when this semester ends, because I like this class.^^
thank you and see you guys.

new start

exciting.^^