July 7– 9
MobiMedia 2008
Fourth International
Mobile Multimedia
Communications Conference
Oulu, Finland
http://www.mobimedia.org

July 7– 9
CIVR’08
International Conference
on Content-based Image and
Video Retrieval
Niagara Falls, Canada
http://141.117.68.63/~civr2008

July 8– 11
iV08
12th International Conference on
Information Visualisation
London, United Kingdom
http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/
IV08

July 12– 16
GECCO ‘08
Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference
Atlanta, GA
http://www.sigevo.org/
gecco–2008/

July 17– 19
Wikimania 2008
Alexandria, Egypt
http://wikimania2008.wikime-
dia.org/wiki/Main_Page

July 21– 25 Mobiquitous08 Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services Dublin, Ireland http://mobiquitous.org

DOI: 10.1145/1377016.1377024

Patents

strange Bedfellows: “amicus Curiae Briefs,” the Bilski Case

http://www.neweconomypatents.org/amicus-curiae-
briefs
BitLaw’s History of software Patents
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.
html

Go Figure: the u.s. Patent and trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov

Ultra-Mobile PCs

OLPC XO

http://laptop.org

asus eee PC

http://eeepc.asus.com

Classmate PC

http://www.classmatepc.com

OQO Model 2

http://www.oqo.com

HP Mini-note

http://government.hp.com/content_detail. asp?contentid=1212