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#bcto09 Elaborating on my textbooks

At BookcampTO I got a lot of attention during the Kindle, Schmindle talk when I brought up changing attitudes towards print books in higher education. The reason I gave was that I downloaded books under Creative Commons, GFDL and free-as-in-beer licenses. I’d like to give more context and a few examples of the textbooks I’ve [...]

Video gaming research, so broad it has CSci and Law under the same roof

University of Toronto is hosting its first video gaming research symposium. It tackles everything video gaming related, from the legal stance on taxation of virtual property to using multicore systems to their full potential in 3D games. I’m also interested in the pub/sub talk. The agenda is packed. I count fourteen talks. I’m going, and [...]