Freedom to Connect - F2C

Okay, so after having several more weeks to take a deeper look and having had several arguments presented, I'm definitely coming to the conclusion that legislation for network neutrality is a bad idea. I do think the fervor over the topic has done a good job of raising the awareness within the public, private and gov't sectors, at least letting people know that it is something that we should be concerned about, that we should pay attention to the workings of the network and providers, and that there are alternatives.

I think the best soliloquy on the subject that I've seen comes from Martin Geddes on his Telepocalypse blog. Most of the arguments stem from the idea that we want to allow for emergent behaviors (networks, usage, business models, technology, payment, etc.) and anything we do to try to control that will actually damage our ability to experiment and create new and innovative techniques to reach everybody in the way that they want to be reached.

His post is a long version of a speech he gave at the F2C Conference which looks like a very interesting place to be.

I guess I shouldn't complain though, I'm hanging out at the ICDE conference (International Conference on Data Engineering) which has its share of interesting talks and personalities, just a bit different layer on the stack.

Kipp

Georgia Tech CS doctoral moves up in bubble sort

The College of Computing doctoral program continues to move up in the national ranking, according to the U.S News & World Report, we are now ranked 11th (tied with Cal Tech). Last ranking in 2002, we were 12th.

I'm not sure what the rest of the field above us is, except for 4 tied for first which are:

- MIT
- Berkeley
- CMU
- Stanford

Oh, and found Texas to be 9th in CS. Anybody know the other 5?

Check out the article "The College of Computing Grad Program Ranks Among the Best in the Nation" for more info, or if you are interested in the overall Georgia Tech rankings including, get this, the 16th straight number 1 ranking for your ISyE program, there is an article on the GT main site.

I know rankings aren't everything, but it's still kind of cool...

Kipp