MDD no longer stands for Model Driven Development - the motto is now "Every Meeting Is a Good Meeting". http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=84...
Developers Shift to Dynamic Programming Languages http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_computer/computer/homepage/Feb07/COM_012-015.pdf Invasion Of The...
The Edge World Question Center asks leading scientists and thinkers each year a question about or at the edge of knowledge: 2005: "What do you believe is true...
Another interesting edge article: Permanent Reincarnation http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_4.html#norretranders I have changed my mind about my body. I used to...
Two more interesting contributions "at the edge": Tim O'Reilly about "social software" http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_11.html#oreilly David Sloan Wilson about...
Some bookshops have reading corners, which seems to be counterproductive at first sight, because customers can then read the books at the bookshop instead of ...
Glenn Gould is best known for his play of Bach's work. In fact he was best when he played Bach. He played with the precision of a machine. Judge yourself: ...
Is the complexity in living things a result of the accumulation of fortuitous accidents? "If a fly were software, it's software that has been patched and...
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"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it." -Walter Chrysler "The programmer, like the...
Images for Internet Slang http://www.flickr.com/photos/goopymart/sets/72157594362502502/ see also http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Internet_slang...
Why don't zebras get ulcers - or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases - when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist...
This post contains an interesting discussion contrasting the wisdom of collaboration (defined as individuals working together and maximizing their individual...
Comprehensive analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network, consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on half a million...
Jeannette M. Wing asks "Five Deep Questions in Computing" P = NP? What is computable? What is intelligence? What is information? (How) can we build complex...
Stephen Wolfram compares in one of his recent essays the exploration of the physical world with the exploration of the "computational universe": "We have the...
In coming decades will we: discover that we are not alone in the universe? Unravel the physiological basis for consciousness? Routinely have false memories...
John von Neumann predicted in 1955 in an article named "Can we survive technology?" "The carbon dioxide released into the atomosphere by industry's burning of...
According to my hypothesis, nature might be "computing" after all. I was thinking about the fact that there are many famous equations that refer to something...
How would many "iterations", iterative procedures or interactions represent a process? Interesting. If a computer is a machine that manipulates data according ...
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