Here is another example of emergence: PageRank "a Web page, when taken by itself, is hard to evaluate regarding its usefulness, correctness, and popularity....
I think the interesting cases of emergence happen if two worlds are in coincidence with each other, or if two universes meet each other: if there is an item...
In functional programming languages, functions can accept data in form of parameters blocks: function method(data) { return .. } In modern dynamical languages...
Cloud computing - a new trend.. http://www.google.com/trends?q=Cloud+Computing ..always a good sign for a buzzword: people ask "what the heck is it?" and try...
Does the point of "peak oil" correspond to the beginning of global warming? If the last drop of oil is burnt, the amount of CO2 has obviously reached the...
In his book "Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine", J. Storrs Hall argues that we will soon be able to build machines that possess general...
What will happen if the first "strong" AI with human-level intelligence and self-consciousness is created? I think.. - it will be just a confused as we are ...
No computer has ever been designed that is aware of what it's doing, but it is possible to build a large distributed system of computers which is mabye able to...
Michael Gazzaniga about the problem of the self: "You make your own decisions.. But who is 'you'? 'You' is this person with this brain that has been ...
After infectuously cute giant Microbes in the form of plush toys .. http://www.giantmicrobes.com/health/ ..we now have the complete subatomic particle zoo ...
The Chinese room experiment from John Searle says that syntax is not the same as semantics: a a symbol-processing machine like a computer can never be properly...
"Ant colonies operate without central control; there is no one in charge and no ant directs the behavior of others. Colonies perform many tasks including...
The problem with many virtual worlds: they seem to be dead and pointless, and people have nothing to do. Well-known exceptions are: World of Warcraft, where...
There are many bright minds who have left Microsoft in the last years. What do you do if you have earnt a fortune? You can finally relax, travel, and maybe...
Microsoft seems to be in a big crisis: a big, bouncy sales guy who despises developers is in charge, the company has lost its vision, and developers are...
Malcolm Gladwell recently had a nice article about Intellectual Ventures<https://media.scoopreprintsource.com/CondeNast/5260CN_IntellectualVentures_52209.pdf> ...
The buzzword bingo continues: HP is now doing research on dynamic cloud services, IBM is busy with cloud computing. I said it before - cloud computing is the...
Another buzzword: Activity-Based Computing :-) see http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dimarzo/papers/IEEEPervasiveWIP.pdf Don't we have already enough x-computing...
"In computer science, we don't have great mysteries. We want to solve problems, but it's not like we have mysterious objects we don't understand. It's not like...
Hi, I do think we have great mysteries in computer science. On a pure mathematical level, for example, there's the question of P vs. NP. If it turns out that P...
Yeah, but even the question of P vs NP is invented and artificial. Computer scientists have a tendency to invent their own problems. These artificial and...
"..much of the most successful social software was invented by accident. Ward Cunningham invented the first wiki because he was tired of responding to user's...
Jochen, I don't quite understand what you mean by saying that P vs NP is "invented and artificial". Do you say that because it is a pure theoretical math...
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