Hangout for experimental confirmation and demonstration of software, computing, and networking. The exercises don't always work out. The professor is a bumbler and the laboratory assistant is a skanky dufus.
ACM News Service: NARA Conference Demonstrates Emulation Technologies. The preservation of electronic documents is not so well-established as the archival preservation of printed materials, and emulation of no-longer available software implemented on no-longer-available platforms is one avenue for preservation of access. This blurb features the open-sourced Multivalent, a Java-based universal document viewer (with plug-ins accepted) from Robert Wilensky's team at Berkeley, and GridForum's DFDL project for an XML-based Format Description Language that is useful for specifying how to pull data from binary-format document files.
Joab Jackson's 2004-11-18 Government Computer News article provides more discussion and links to the sources.
