Bye-bye ipv4

All ipv4 addresses are gone. Ipv6 is the wave of the future. Not everybody uses it.

Youtube can show us what TCP/IP internetworks look like.

Click Fraud and Grid Computing

Here is an even more sophisticated version of click fraud than we described in class last time. If one just write a program to simulate a user clicking but not buying anything, one can more easily detect click fraud. In this example, regular users are fooled into making the click happen when looking at things they were likely to buy anyway.

Grid computing accomplishes a lot in Folding@home, seti@home, and too many others. Here's a list from Wikipedia. These are examples of using crowdsourcing to solve a problem. Gamification can also be used with grid computing to encourage people to participate.

Medical IS

The LA Times recently reported that the iPad is now part of a federally approved informatics system.

An example on YouTube from 16 years ago points to the rapid change brought about by the Internet and other information systems.

RFID, IS, and Informatics

Walmart uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for a variety of purposes now. They initially used RFID to streamline their supply chain during shipping and warehousing, and now they are also using them in their stores and before the goods are ever shipped to them. This article delves into the business case for Walmart pursuing RFID in their stores. RFID isn't just for Walmart. It can also be used for cows. Cows were too big a target, so they moved on to mice.

This story appearing today about Google, Microsoft, and Bing is too good to pass up. Is Microsoft using Google through internet explorer to improve Bing, or is Microsoft copying Google directly?

Also, Google just released a nifty in-browser information visualization tool for fractals.