Peter Wentworth
Own your own last-mile fibre
SiloBreaker reports on an interesting fibre-optic deployment in Ottawa where 400 homeowners are being allowed to buy their own last-mile fibre. The idea that every home or business could come with a "tail" back to a common multiprovider service ...

Views: 209 | 1 Comment » | posted on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , ,

Network neutrality — what?
You're on the highway approaching the toll booth, on a tight deadline for an important meeting. To your dismay, you're shepherded into a long, slow-moving lane. "This is the new differentiated service system," your companion explains. "Some car m...

Views: 255 | 5 Comments » | posted on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 | Tags: ,




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Peter Wentworth is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rhodes University, and he also runs a small software company. He is an advocate of “software craftsmanship”, and sees a major opportunity for using gaming in education. Some of this is expressed in the fun project described at www.bingbee.com.
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