Now available for software consulting - Me - April 15 (or earlier)

I'll be finishing up with my current client by the middle of April and working half-time until then, so I am now available to consider new engagements.

I am open to considering software development work, but I'd prefer to do some work related to blogging or venture capital (e.g., due diligence), possibly helping technology startups get off the ground.

My resume can be found here: http://basetechnology.com/resume.htm
Or, just Google my name.

-- Jack Krupansky

Now available - Me

I'll be finishing up with my current client by the middle of February and working half-time until then, so I am now available to consider new engagements.

I am open to considering software development work, but I'd prefer to do some work related to blogging or venture capital (e.g., due diligence), possibly helping technology startups get off the ground.

My resume can be found here: http://basetechnology.com/resume.htm
Or, just Google my name.

-- Jack Krupansky

Ajax or AJAX?

Everybody is talking about (and experiencing) Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, otherwise known Ajax. Now, my question is whether the proper term is AJAX or Ajax. I consulted the Wikipedia article and it says "Ajax" and has an explicit discussion that undid attempts to change that to AJAX. Personally, I'll stick with Ajax, until the authoritative Wikipedia says otherwize. Besides, I HATE having to type all-caps terms.

-- Jack Krupansky

Updated PowerPoint presentation for The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web (CCKW)

I've posted an updated version of my 14-page PowerPoint presentation that summarizes my thoughts for research efforts on what I've been calling The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web (CCKW).

My updated, more-detailed, but still far from complete, white paper and idea notebook can be found at The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web - A Vision of Consumer Applications of Software Agent Technology - Enabling Consumer-Centric Knowledge-Based Computing. My "to do" list at the end of that paper now has 1,510 items on it, and I'm sure that list will continue to grow as I continue to do more background research.

My next step, eventually, after tuning the PowerPoint presentation, is to write a 5-page summary paper.

Note: CCKW is a proposal for a research project is is unlikely to exist as a usable product or service for years to come.

-- Jack Krupansky

Virtually attend the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on The Attention Economy

Back on February 10th I wrote about wishing that I could attend the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) held March 6-9, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California, which was to focus on what is called the Attention Economy. Well, as expected, I was not able to attend the conference, but we can all now attend it retrospectively in a virtual manner by reading and viewing a lot of the commentary about the conference, which just ended two days ago. See O'Reilly's ETech Conference News.

Alas, I can still claim that I personally don't know anybody who attended the conference. It's a whole different world from the one that I live in.

-- Jack Krupansky

Updated Distributed Virtual Personal Computer (DVPC) proposal

I've just posted an updated version of my proposal for a Distributed Virtual Personal Computer (DVPC). Let me know what you think or if you know of competing proposals or products. Thanks.

I still have no intention of personally designing the details of such a product or even developing a business around the concepts, but I would like somebody to do it so that one of these days I can buy a new PC and it will come with DVPC right out of the box.

-- Jack Krupansky

PowerPoint presentation for The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web (CCKW)

I've developed a 12-page PowerPoint presentation that summarizes my thoughts for research efforts on what I've been calling The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web (CCKW).

My more-detailed (but still far from complete) white paper and idea notebook can be found at The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web - A Vision of Consumer Applications of Software Agent Technology - Enabling Consumer-Centric Knowledge-Based Computing. My "to do" list at the end of that paper now has 1,286 items on it, and I'm sure that list will continue to grow as I continue to do more background research.

I considered calling this effort COW, but I just don't like the uninspiring connotations of that acronym, so I'll stick with CCKW (Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web) for now. BTW, It turns out that CCKW is the abbreviation for counterclockwise.

My next step, after tuning the PowerPoint presentation, is to write a 5-page summary paper.

-- Jack Krupansky

Formatting of a computer science paper

Here's a detailed document, entitled "Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Authors’ Instructions for the Preparation of Camera-Ready Contributions to LNCS/LNAI Proceedings", that describes how you can go about organizing a technical paper, such as for a technical conference.

-- Jack Krupansky

Developing a poster presentation

Here's a PowerPoint presentation, entitled "Developing a Poster Presentation", that describes how you can go about organizing a poster presentation, such as for a technical conference.

-- Jack Krupansky