Author Archives: Pete Ippel

Forget laptops, it’s all in the palm of your hand…or smaller…

I’m really inspired by the implications of radio technology, afterall, that’s what cellphones and RFID are based on…to quote Andrew Lippman of MIT’s Media Lab… “No matter what you think of the wireless devices you have today, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Radio is just getting interesting.” I heartily agree, SO, if you want a …

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Successful Teleconference for Fulbright Q&A Session

Wow, I have participated in multiple projects with telepresence, (Actvie Worlds Web Opera at Cornell connecting with Art Center College of Design, and then with a NASA sponsored program called “Skyways of Tomorrow” where we connected with two groups of grade-school students in San Diego and Kansas via the web) and neither was as seemless …

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Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk…Or Cigars, and Sex?

So just like the the Rufus Wainwright song, Everything it seems I likes a little bit stronger A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me I was reading on BBC Mundo that there’s a province in Cuba where folks that drink alcohol, smoke, and enjoy healthy sex lives live longer…but what the biggest …

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Cornell University Professors Compard to Napster Users

I think this is rather rediculous… Peter Hirtle, the university copyright compliance officer, explains the problem as a lack of understanding about electronic media. “Faculty members are now where students were five years ago with Napster. Just because it’s easy to take something and put it on a website doesn’t mean it’s legal to do …

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