ETech 2008 Coverage Roundup（ETech 2008新闻报道摘要）

Here's some of the coverage of our Emerging Technology Conference that's come across my desk since I got home and have had a chance to catch up on what people had to say:

Lessig Calls on Geeks to Code the Money Out of Politics
Wired News Thu, 06 Mar 2008
In a presentation at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference, Stanford law professor Larry Lessig calls on geeks to figure out ways of getting the corruption out of politics.

Drugs, Body Modifications May Create Second Enlightenment
Wired News Thu, 06 Mar 2008
Speaking at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference in San Diego, writer Quinn Norton described future societal changes that may come about as the result of mind-enhancing drugs and other body modifications – just as the introduction of coffee helped stimulate the Enlightenment in 17th-century England.

Google plays down Android incompatibility concerns
InfoWorld Thu, 06 Mar 2008
Google's Android team isn't worried about wireless carriers building Android distributions that are incompatible with one another, Google developer Dan Morrill said Wednesday at the O'Reilly ETech conference on emerging technology in San Diego. He also said security problems on Android-powered smartphones will be minor compared to the potential benefits.

DIY Robotics: The Rise of Open Source Hardware
Wired News Wed, 05 Mar 2008
A new wave of open source hardware is coming, and was on display at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this week.

Hacker Shows How Your TV, Front Door, and Iphone are Vulnerable
Wired News, March 05, 2008
Your credit card, the lock on your front door, your cell phone's voicemail, your hotel television, and your web browser are all not as secure as you think.

ETech Yearbook 2008: Meet the Faces of Innovation
Wired News Wed, 06 Mar 2008
Check out the human side of emerging technology as we make tech celebs mug for the camera at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Smaller Footprint
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008
Sebastopol publisher gathers scientists to share green ideas.

Google lets us look into its search and translation technology
Heise Online, March 05, 2008
Yesterday, Google's director of research Peter Norvig let visitors at the Emerging Technology conference in San Diego look into the technology that his firm uses in search and translation functions. As Norvig put it, a lot of the time Google does not rely on complex models and theories, but simply on large amounts of data.

Google Prediction Market Datamining Shows Meatspace Matters
Wired News, March 04, 2008
For the past two and half years, Google employees have bet on internal company projects – a tool known as a prediction market -, providing plenty of data for the company to mine to figure out how information flows internally. The result is surprisingly ironic for the internet giant. Physical proximity trumps all other factors in determining how people bet.

Open source robot: your next personal assistant
Network World , 03/06/2008
Imagine a robot that hands you a beer and then cleans your kitchen and living room. That's what a start-up called Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif., is busy developing.

New Yahoo service shares users' locations with online services
BetaNews, March 6, 2008
Fire Eagle is Yahoo's location-aware middleware, which ultimately lets users share their locations with online services, so those sites and applications can deliver results relevant to where they are. Ten thousand invitation codes were sent out yesterday, in addition to the literal golden tickets given out to those present at Etech in San Diego. Yahoo hopes to entice developers to integrate Fire Eagle into their services to help make location-specific data readily accessible.