By Suzanne Ross Remember when you brought your favorite toy, household object or bug and shared it with the class on Show and Tell day? Most kids were excited about sharing anything and everything with anyone. But then we grew…
By Suzanne Ross People read stories to find out what happens next. That's easy enough in a book, but if the story is about real life, and it's online in the news media, it's harder to find out what happens…
We don't like worms, in any incarnation. Not the crawly ones, not the human ones, not the computer ones. Especially not the computer ones. We can usually avoid the other kinds. That's why Helen Wang and her colleagues decided to…
By Suzanne Ross History is being written in a new way. It is being written by people through the big and the small events in their lives. We write history through personal Web sites, discussion boards, and the legacy of…
By Suzanne Ross What happens when two children decide to share a teddy bear, but then one of them changes his mind? The children will likely tear the stuffed toy in two, leaving only bear parts and crying children. A…
By Suzanne Ross Almost everyone complains about the loss of connection to their neighbors. Parents don't know if it's safe to let their kids go next door, or down the street. They don't know who to borrow a cup of…
By Suzanne Ross What do cows and the Internet have in common? In the days when hunter-gatherers first decided to stay put and become farmers, they often stuck together in villages for protection from marauding gangsters known alternately as Huns,…
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Rico Malvar has always liked to build things. "I used to build amplifiers when I was a kid. It wasn't a big deal, but for a young kid it was. Then I got attracted…
Paris, June 15, 2004 -- Many of the top researchers in database systems from around the world gathered in Paris, France for the SIGMOD/PODS conference last week. They met to share information about innovations to advance the state-of-the art in…