From the Google research blog: "We programmers need all the help we can get, and we should never assume otherwise. Careful design is great. Testing is great....
MMORPGs are getting better and better. Games I would like to play if I had more time (the problem is that they are very addictive) Cabal Online - A new, fast...
Master of Spam http://j-walk.com/other/spamu/courses.htm The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm Google Content Blocker...
I have never clicked on a Google ad, neither an AdSense advertising nor an AdWords advertising, and I know no one who has. Have you ? Even Eric Schmidt ...
And, indeed, where is Europe in all this? There was a time when good movies came from Germany and France (they still do, but not very frequently). Is European...
I think Wolfram's NKS idea of exploring computational universes is fascinating. Again he has attracted a lot of smart people for his NKS conference. Some...
"Although the definition of life is notoriously controversial, there is general agreement that a localized molecular assemblage should be considered alive if...
The Princeton Webcasts have several new additions: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/ The lecture series from David Gross, Professor of Physics at UC...
A new paper about explaining the patterns on the leopard and the jaguar with diffusion-aggregation processes: R.T. Liu, S.S. Liaw, P.K. Maini, "Two-stage...
A course about "Complex Systems" http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp4001/ begins with the follwing conclusions after the first lecture: -Complex systems are the...
If any one person can be said to have set off the personal computer revolution, it might be Steve Wozniak. He designed the machine that crystallized what a...
... The original news release is here http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=1676 Is is about a Science article named "Creating a Science of the Web" by ...
One question I meet again and again if I try to make meaningful agent-based simulations is: - How do we simulate the core of a problem without merely...
Linden Lab is the producer of Second Life, an online world with a growing population of subscribers (or "residents"); currently, the community has well over...
Studies have revealed clues to how people become experts. They suggest that experts are made, not born. In fact, it takes approximately a decade of heavy labor...
I thought this was a very interesting article from a broad level. It gives you a picture of the 'algorithm' for knowledge building. What I took away: 1)...
The country with the top universities of the world does accept the idea of evolution. Although humans and chimps share 99 per cent of their genes, only 40% of...
The amazon.com and amazon.de sites are currently down, the American site and the German site as well. This is the first time I have seen this for years ...
I know the war on terror doesn't really fit here but the interrelationships and insights were quite interesting. An Indian perspective on the war on terror. ...
It does fit in here very well. The conflict USA vs. terrorists is like Microsoft vs. Open Source - in both cases a decentralized, non-profit network is the...
Well, I think perhaps she was discounting the vastness of empty space, and merely commenting on the areas that have matter ... area where there is something to...
I agree that this is a very difficult problem, and also one that tends to change dramatically depending upon the domain or the focus of study. I generally try...
Actually I find the comparison of terrorist groups with MS vs Open source fascinating. I have been very interested in (and have been involved in) disruptive...
This quote from the book "The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing" (Avizienis et al., Springer) looks interesting: "Cells are fundamental living subsystems...
The comparison with "disruptive technolgy" is interesting. Disruptive technologies often come from outside the mainstream: just like terrorists (which see...
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