Today's amazing animated {CS3} Google Doodle celebrates Jules Verne's birthday. You have to check it out to see how imaginative and beautiful the Doodle is: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
Computer scientists, led by James Handler of U. Maryland, and Tim Berners-Lee among others, are creating the "Tetherless World Research Constellation" at Rensselaer Poly. It will focus on increasing access to information at any time
and place without the need for a “tether” to a specific
computer or device, and aims to create a new formal discipline of "Web science".