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Andrew Odlyzko: Miscellaneous materials

Book reviews:

Information and human society, A. M. Odlyzko. Review of The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by J. Gleick. American Scientist, vol. 99, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2011, pp. 412-414. [preprint, PDF] [Am. Sci. online version]

Book review by A. Odlyzko: Experimental Mathematics in Action by D. H. Bailey, J. M. Borwein, N. J. Calkin, R. Girgensohn, D. R. Luke, and V. H. Moll. American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 118, no. 10, Dec. 2011, pp. 946-951. [review, PDF]

Book review by A. Odlyzko: This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by C. M. Reinhart and K. Rogoff. IEEE Spectrum, April 2011, p. 26, and longer version on the Spectrum site: [IEEE Spectrum online version] [text]

Internet: The Web we weave, A. M. Odlyzko. Reviews of The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information by B. A. Huberman and The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society by M. Castells. American Scientist, vol. 90, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2002, pp. 482-484. [text] [Am. Sci. online version]

Reports to regulators:

CRTC network management report, A. M. Odlyzko. Report submitted with other material by CIPPIC to CRTC, the Canadian regulator, in the 2009 proceedings on network management. [report, PDF]

Letters to the editor:

Bell Labs led with innovations tied to the real world, A. M. Odlyzko. Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2012. [online version] [text]

A hundred zeros, A. M. Odlyzko. Barron's, February 13, 2006. [letter as submitted] [published version, drastically shortertened]

Big questions about small payments, A. M. Odlyzko. Technology Review, vol. 107, no. 2, March 2004, p. 14. [text]

Price discrimination and the role of competition , A. M. Odlyzko. Minnesota Daily, July 7, 2003. [online version]

The 19th-Century Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. Context Magazine, to appear. [text]

Days of 'Internet time' have come and gone, A. M. Odlyzko. Boomtown Exchange by Lee Gomes, in online edition of Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2002. [text]

Comments on "Solving the broadband paradox" by Adam D. Thierer, A. M. Odlyzko. Issues in Science and Technology, vol. 18, no. 4, Summer 2002, pp. 7-8. [text] [IS&T online version]

Earning options, A. M. Odlyzko. Barron's, August 5, 2002. [letter as submitted] [published version, drastically shortertened]

Data vs. voice traffic, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko, Comm. ACM, vol. 42, no. 9, September 1999, pp. 12-13. [letter as submitted]

Information technology's impact, A. M. Odlyzko. Barron's, July 13, 1998. [letter as submitted] [published version]

Others:

August 4, 2006 comment on the controversy between Chris Anderson and Lee Gomes about the "long tails" thesis, A. M. Odlyzko. [comment] [entry in Chris Anderson's Long Tail blog]

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