Tim reflects on being a digital traveler in this final podcast for the COSC110 year.

Tim talks to Craig Neville-Manning (head of Google New York) about Google, and to Krzysztof, one of the Google engineers, about their fact queries.

Tim talks to Frode Sandnes about power saving on portable computers, and Chaitanya Gharpe about a shopping robot for the blind, at the UIC/ATC conference in China.

Tim reports from the ATC/UIC conferences (http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/) on a boat on the Yangtze river in China, including the intelligent schoolbag, and interviews with Christian Möller-Schloer (University of Hannover, Germany) on Organic Computing, and Jean Marc Seigner (University of Geneva).

Tim talks with Dave Blizzard in Portland, Oregon about how he robbed a bank, Microsoft's .NET, and being a digital traveller. This podcast is brought to you by the letter 'u' and the number 7.

Tim talks to Jeff Johnson of uiwizards.com about GUI Bloopers and Web Bloopers.

Press on and push off: Tim interviews Prof Harold Thimbleby (Swansea University, Wales) about his new book on interface design, the FITlab, and Microsoft Word.

Tim talks with Tracy Camp about the decrease in the number of computer science graduates compared with the increase in job opportunities, and especially why the proportion of women in computer science is declining.

Tim and Wolfgang review the first semester in preparation for the mid-year test.

Tim talks to Prof Ian Witten (University of Waikato) about Digital Libraries: will they replace real libraries? How are they being used? Does the book have a future? Links: nzdl.org, print.google.com

Tim and Richard review the lecture on multimedia and hypermedia. Also, the new ICT Innovation Institute and supercomputers and the amazing BBC interview about Apple Computer.

Special podcast about the NZ ICT Innovation Institute. Interviews with Prof Tim David about the new IBM supercomputer and what it will be used for, and with Prof Peter Jackson about the new institute, and how industry and students can benefit from it.

Tim and Richard are joined by Mick Grimley from Education to discuss a new educational computer games course. Also time management, and more on operating systems, Vista, and Macs.

System software, GUIs, Richard and the Chimp, Apple vs. Apple, and NZ Telecom unbundling. Plus Tim's simulated debate with Richard about GUIs.

Tim and Richard are joined by Michael JasonSmith, and talk about spreadsheets, time and what it has to do with files and undo, and notes from the recent HITLab conference.

Presentation techniques and tools, including Tufte's comments on Powerpoint, and responses from people like Don Norman. News includes Apple's 30th anniversary, Apple vs. Apple, and video about disks at http://www.archive.org/details/StorageD1984.

A demonstration of how mp3 files work by splitting audio into frequency ranges.

Computer hardware, including CPUs, memory, buses and printers. Examples showing how audio files work. News items include delays on Vista and HD DVD, and digital systems for sports performance.

Review of bits, bytes and computer storage. Web links for topics discussed include writely.com, songbirdnest.com, and thevoicebooth.com.

Tim and Richard talk about last week's lecture on document processing, including readability and legibility, and share their different views about WYSIWIG vs. command based systems. There's also a preview of the next lecture on storage, including where you'd find a gigabyte, terabyte, and petabyte of data.

The second podcast for COSC110. Review of the lecture on HCI, computing in the news (including TradeMe, cellphones and the Pope's iPod), preview of document processing lecture.

Welcome to the first COSC110 podcast, with Tim Bell and Richard Green. Includes a review of lectures, what's coming up, and digital stupidity of the week. The other podcasts referred to are "This Week in Tech" (http://thisweekintech.com/) and "Typical PC User" (http://www.typicalpcuser.biz/tpcu/)

Introduction to the podcasts; who it is for, why podcast? Where to get podcasts from (inside and outside U of C server), format of upcoming podcasts, next week in the course.