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In this issue's Inside
ASIS&T, you’ll
find photo coverage of the 2005 Annual Meeting and full coverage of the
prestigious ASIS&T annual awards. Meeting coverage is further supported by
feature articles on the two plenary sessions. In the first plenary Matthew
Szulik, founder of Red Hat, discusses the philosophy and progress of the open
source movement, while the second plenary speaker, Pattie Maes of the MIT Media
Laboratory’s Ambient Intelligence Group, reviews its work in providing "just-in-time-information."
Two
other feature articles address information policy questions. Lee Strickland
makes his recommendations concerning the policies and reforms the new director
of national intelligence should instigate to improve the effectiveness of our
intelligence collection and analysis, while Tomas Lipinski continues his
discussion of the possible effects of the Grokster
decision, focusing on how it might affect entrepreneurs and new products.
Peter
Morville, president of Semantic Studios, is our featured IA columnist in this
issue. Where Maes focuses on getting relevant information to people in all
situations, Morville speculates about another aspect of a future that includes
pervasive computing - ambient
findability, which "describes a world in which we can find anyone or
anything from anywhere and anytime."
As a
timely example of applied advanced findability, President Michael Leach urges us
all to hasten to the new ASIS&T website to update our personal directory
information, noting particularly which information we are willing to have
displayed online. He also urges us to contribute chapter and personal
announcements and write-ups to the website (and the Bulletin)
to benefit our fellow members planning events or just trying to keep up with
what is going on.
Finally,
library collections in a networked environment are also the subject of a
separate submission by William Walters, who looks at how a book’s being widely
held by other members of a network might influence local acquisition decisions.