Penn State Great Valley Library Blog

November 11, 2009

2010 Census

Filed under: Web resources

Every 10 years the United States conducts a required census of its population. They are currently preparing for the 2010 census that will account for everyone living at your address as of April 1, 2010. For more details about the process or to understand why it is important for you to take part in the census you can go to http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/how-we-count.php

By they way, for those geneaology buffs out there this will mean the the data from the 1940 census will become available as the year progresses as data is released after 70 years.

November 3, 2009

Vanish - Self-Destructing Digital Data

Filed under: Technology


Those who remember the television show, Mission Impossible, with its self-destructing messages may appreciate Vanish - a new software tool still in development at University of Washington. In essence, it creates a shelf-life for e-mail and other forms of digital data, by assigning it a deletion time frame. Thus, it helps with the problem of internet data living indefinitely. Vanish can be downloaded while it is still in its development phase. To download and/or review licensing terms of use, go to http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/index.html

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