The ACM has released its list of Fellows for 2008. From their press release: “The ACM Fellows Program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.” It’s great to see…

MIT Press has released Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, edited by Gary Olson, Ann Zimmerman, and Nathan Bos. The book came about through the Science of Collaboratories project at the University of Michigan School of Information. From the MIT Press website: Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for…