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1 up Secrets Agent - [westword] "The Government wants to break him, but Boulder's prince of privacy remains cryptic."
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2 up Synthespians No 'Final' Fantasy - [wired] "The promise and perils of virtual actors also took center stage Monday night in a kickoff panel for the annual Siggraph digital graphics and interactive technology conference."
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3 up The Underground Internet - [bizweek] "Members-only 'darknets' are popping up to protect file-sharing from prying eyes"
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4 up digital physics - [site] by fredkin
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5 up INDUSTRY OUTLOOK: BIOTECHNOLOGY - [sfgate] Why Bioinformatics Is a Hot Career
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6 up theory-edge - [egroup] mailing list by VZ Nuri
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7 up Make Robots Not War - [villagevoice] "Some Scientists Refuse to Get Paid for Killer Ideas"
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8 up AI gaming articles - [links] "What is it? How can I do it? What are the various algorithms? And more..."
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9 up proof of the robbins conjecture - [nyt] proof by mccune in 1996 via automated theorem proving, by gina kolata, signpost of the future
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10 up Cyborg Liberation Front - the World Transhumanist Association conference "International academics and activists, they met to lay the groundwork for a society that would admit as citizens and companions intelligent robots, cyborgs made from a free mixing of human and machine parts.
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11 up All Science Is Computer Science - [nyt] on the ubiquity of "in silico" science across all scientific disciplines
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12 up Intelligenesis Faces Dim Future - [wired] "A pioneering New York company that once hoped to develop the first artificial intelligence is preparing to declare bankruptcy."
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13 up Chess Champion Garry Kasparov - [msn] "World Chess Champ Defeats World Team In Kasparov vs. the World on MSN.COM"
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14 up Big Bang! - [bizweek] "Digital convergence is finally happening -- and that means new opportunities for upstarts and challenges for tech icons"
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15 up grid computing - [site] news & info
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16 up Pino robot learns to walk - [eetimes] "This pint-size robot stands about 28 inches tall and was expressly developed for simplicity. Like his more sophisticated brethren, Pino walks. But thanks to a so-called genetic algorithm, he learned to do it all by himself."
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17 up Congratulations, It's A Bot! - [wired] "It was only a matter of time before toy companies turned from plush interactive hairballs to digikinetic babies. Yours will be arriving shortly."
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18 up Omega Man - [newscientist] Gregory Chaitin profile, famous IBM theoretical researcher
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19 up Physicist Leads Theory Group at - (PDF) Jennifer Chayes fosters collaborations to solve intractable problems
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20 up bizweek: the linux uprising - [links] businessweek article series on linux in mainstream industry
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21 up DES crack - [nyt] "U.S. Data-Scrambling Code Cracked With Homemade Equipment"
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22 up Schroedinger's Cash Register - [sciencenews] "Physicists try to break economists' monopoly on financial theory"
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23 up theoretical CS student lounge - [egroup] introductory CS mailing list, by mike n christoff
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24 up graphnet mailing list - [egroup] discussions of graph theory, founded by warren shreve
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25 up comp.theory - USENET newsgroup (via google)
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26 up sci.math - USENET newsgroup (via google)
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27 down Echelon: Big brother - [bbcnews] "Critics accuse the United States' intelligence community and its English-speaking partners of waging what is in effect a new Cold War."
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28 down "an enormous waste of money" - [msnbc] security expert bruce schneier argues that America is spending its money ineffectively in the fight against terrorism
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29 up Computing Power on Tap - [cfomag] "A look at the most ambitious attempt yet to combine millions of computers seamlessly around the world -- to make processing power available on demand anywhere, rather like electrical power."
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30 up Digital characters learn to move - [bbcnews] "Based on prize-winning work carried out largely at Oxford University in the UK, researchers at NaturalMotion have developed a new way of animating virtual characters in games or films."
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31 up evoweb - [site] European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing. "EvoNet aims to foster innovation, training and technology transfer, and to provide a comprehensive information service for everyone interested in the field of evolutionary computing."
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32 up MAA - [site] mathematical association of america columnists, peterson, devlin etc
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33 up mathworld - [site] encyclopediac web dir by eric weisstein
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34 up john allen paulos - [links] popular science style mathematics columns on abcnews
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35 up the proof - [nova] transcript on andrew wiles solution of fermat's last thm
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36 up Blogging goes mainstream - [cnn] "Success of Web journals heralds an even bigger future"
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37 up Scholars Who Blog - [chronicle] "The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of academics"
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38 up Living in the Blog-osphere - [msnbc] "Welcome to the world of a half million (and counting) Weblogs, where anyone can instantly publish his passions and favorite Weblinks. And the fun's just begun"
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39 up Challenges for Theoretical CS - [paper] "In this report, we shall illustrate the central role of TCS in computing in terms of a broad-ranging list of opportunities and challenges facing theory and theorists as we begin the 21st Century, ones that permeate the world of computing..."
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40 up Theory into Profit - (PDF) Microsoft Invests in Mathematicians "At a time when many companies have scaled back or eliminated their research efforts, Microsoft Corporation is betting millions on the notion that funding its own research will pay off."
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41 up comp.theory FAQ - [paper] by alex lopez-ortiz
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42 up barabasi & watts - [ams] (PDF) barabasi & watts books on small world graphs reviewed
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43 up God, Stephen Wolfram, Etc - [forbes] extended profile by michael malone
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44 up Clipper Chick - [wired] "Changing sides in the government's war against piracy, Dorothy Denning went from hacker hero to one of the most hated people on the Net."
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45 up CODE WARRIORS - [villagevoice] "Battling for the Keys to Privacy in the Info Age" By Julian Dibbell
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46 up P vs NP & NP complete problems - [egroup] mailing list by stas busygin
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47 down The Semantic Web - [sciam] A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities, by tim berners lee
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48 down A Fountain of Knowledge - [ibm] IBM webfountain project. web page analysis engine "By leveraging vast reserves of untapped information online, WebFountain lets companies make smarter business decisions on an open platform..."
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49 down How Google Grows...and Grows... - [fastcompany] "Its performance is the envy of executives and engineers around the world. For techno-evangelists, Google is a marvel of Web brilliance. For Wall Street, it may be the IPO that changes everything (again)."
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50 down military industrial porn complex - [salon.com] "Popular science magazines used to be aimed at the geeky wannabe inventor. Today, it's all about the glamour of war."
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51 down Making Sense of Data Deluge - [washpost] "CIA Technologies Refine Mass of Information Into Analysis"
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52 down NSA employee handbook - "This handbook is designed to introduce you to some of the basic security principles and procedures with which all NSA employees must comply."
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53 down real risks of cyberterrorism - [zdnet] on misreported security breaches
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54 down Information Warrior - [wired] "Winn Schwartau: With the nation's wealth embedded in our electronic infrastructure, we need to be ready to fight cyberwars."
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55 down All creatures great and small - [nature] "The living world is governed by laws based on fractal geometry and on the sizes of organisms, some scientists claim. John Whitfield looks at the debate surrounding a biological 'theory of everything'."
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56 down The New X-Men - [wired] "The Mountain Dew-fueled all-nighter is history. Today's supercoders work 40 hours a week. And two to a computer. It's called extreme programming - and it's revolutionizing the software world."
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57 down Agility counts - [economist] "In the latest of our series on managing innovation, we look at agile programming. This is the culmination of many faddish ideas for producing software more efficiently. But behind it lies a healthy emphasis on teamwork in business..."
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58 down Games, Movies Tie the Knot - [wired] "Nothing grabs Hollywood's attention more than money. And with video-game sales topping Hollywood box office receipts for the second year in a row (games raked in $30 billion in global sales versus the movie industry's $20.4 billion in 2002)..."
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59 down Math and Physics in gaming - [links] "articles and tutorials on subjects that are foundational in games: Math and Physics"
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60 down AI Wisdom - [site] "We've compiled a comprehensive database of Artificial Intelligence and Graphics articles specific to games that appeared in game programming books, magazines, conferences, or on the Internet."
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61 down Computers without Clocks - [sciam] "Asynchronous chips improve computer performance by letting each circuit run as fast as it can"
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62 down atom by atom - [siliconvalley] "Supercomputer lets researchers study material failures, atom by atom" - highly sophisticated supercomputer atomic, molecular & physics simulations, a trend
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63 neutral The Creative Processor - [wired] "With a souped-up reproducing piano and some ingenious learning machines, AI maestro Gerhard Widmer is discovering how performers unlock the art in Mozart."
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64 neutral new scientist mag AI section - [links] ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND A-LIFE
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65 neutral loebner prize - $100K prize for turing test simulation attempts
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66 up Loebner Prize, First Turing Test - "In 1990 Hugh Loebner agreed with The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies to underwrite a contest designed to implement the Turing Test. Dr. Loebner pledged a Grand Prize of $100,000 and a Gold Medal (pictured above) for the first computer whose respo
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67 up tower of hanoi robot - mindstorms robot by jp brown
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68 up Machines with a human touch - [economist] 'neuromorphics', new paradigm for robotics based on biological analogies "Instead of using the ones and zeros of digital electronics to simulate the way the brain functions, 'neuromorphic' engineering relies on nature's biological short-cuts..
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69 up Robots - [bizweek] "They're beginning to walk, talk, and, yes, think like people. Is the age of the robo sapien just around the corner?"
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70 up Mark Tilden - Chaotic Robotics - [wired] "If you thought robots with brains were tweaky, how about robots without brains? Mark Tilden is building them."
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71 up sony qrio biped - [site] "It is the product of cutting edge artificial intelligence and dynamics technology. An entertainment robot that lives with you, makes life fun, makes you happy. Its name is QRIO."
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72 up g"odel's thm - [ams] (PDF) new edition of g"odels proof book by nagel & newman
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73 up millenium problems - [ams] (PDF) review of devlins "millenium problems"
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74 up Prime time - [newscientist] "Fame and fortune await the person who cracks the greatest problem in mathematics. And that could be any day now, says Erica Klarreich" on riemann conjecture related to quantum chaos
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75 up Who wants to ruin a millionaire? - [guardian] "With a ?1m prize awaiting the winner, the Eternity puzzle was expected to take years to solve. But Alex Selby cracked it in seven months - forcing the creator to sell his home. He spoke to Oliver Burkeman"
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76 down web archive opens up research - [nyt] egalitarian effect of arXiv, by james glanz
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77 up physics on the web - [nyt] putting science journals on the line by katie hafner on the arXiv
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78 up A Net of Control - [msnbc] "Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works" by steven levy
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79 up blogworld - [cjr] "the new amateur journalists weigh in" by matt welch
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80 up Vision Quest - [wired] "A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH HAS SUCCEEDED. AND NOW THIS BLIND MAN CAN SEE."
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81 up DNA Creates Nano Transistor - [spacedaily] "Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed the power of DNA to create a self-assembling nanoscale transistor, the building block of electronics."
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82 up smalltimes - [site] news about MEMS, nanotech, and microsystems
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83 up The World's Most Dangerous Geek - [rollingstone] "Justin Frankel, the man who popularized file-sharing, has even bigger plans"
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84 up The Third Culture - [book] "Beyond the Scientific Revolution" profiles of noted scientists & visionairies. by John Brockman
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85 up digerati - [links] "Who are the 'digerati' and why are they 'the cyber elite'? They are the doers, thinkers, and writers who have tremendous influence on the emerging communication revolution. They are not on the frontier, they are the frontier."
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86 up john horton conway - profile of john horton conway, inventor of the "game of life"
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87 up Srinivasa Ramanujan - was one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses.
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88 up Paul Erdos - [nyt] "a legendary mathematician who was so devoted to his subject that he lived as a mathematical pilgrim with no home and no job, died Friday in Warsaw, Poland. He was 83."
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89 down Graph Theory in Practice: Part I - [paper] on small world graphs by brian hayes.. shows new fusion of graph theory, CS, and computational complexity. used in many new modelling applications
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90 up The Code to Everything - [wired] "The Man Who Cracked the Code to Everything... But first it cracked him. The inside story of how Stephen Wolfram went from boy genius to recluse to science renegade."
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91 up Life... and Everything - [theatlantic] on the fredkin-wolfram theory of the digital universe
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92 up life gliders - [links] catalog of known gliders in conway's life game, online database, catalogued by david eppstein.. up to 12,500 total
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93 up rule 110 gliders - [paper] complex rule 110 glider analysis by harold mcintosh
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94 up java applet life page - [links] "All the patterns in this catalog were carefully chosen by Alan Hensel from the vast array of results that have accumulated in the years since Conway first proposed the Game of Life."
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95 up Quest for the Spin Transistor - [ieee] "The mystical property of electron spin is revolutionizing the memory business. If it can do the same with logic, electronics will become 'spintronics'"
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96 up linux - [wired] linux news coverage in wired magazine
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97 up halloween documents - [links] eric s raymond on the MS halloween documents and general ongoing open source vs closed source conflict dynamics
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98 up DOWN FOR THE COUNT - [lacitybeat] "Riverside County's outspoken registrar was a national poster child for touchscreen voting, but problems with the machines may have just ended her career"
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99 up Broken Machine Politics - [wired] "Introducing the User-Friendly, Error-Free, Tamper-Proof Voting Machine of the Future! (WARNING: Satisfaction not guaranteed if used before 2006.)"
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100 up Primer on Public-key Encryption - [atlantic] "Public-key encryption, as noted in the profile of cryptographer Bruce Schneier, is complicated in detail but simple in outline."
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101 up cypherpunk activism - [links] cypherpunks, early cyberspace pioneers
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102 up R.I.P. Cypherpunks - [securityfocus] "Once the online haunt of top cryptographers, the Cypherpunks list was characterized by its mix of revolutionary politics and advanced mathematics. This week, a founder pronounced it dead and buried"
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103 up follow the money - [amscientist] "perhaps there is some physical or mathematical rule governing the distribution of wealth in the world."
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104 up Stuart Kauffman Interview - [sciam] "Bioinformatics--a melding of molecular biology and math-- may reveal the 'wet' circuitry behind the human genome"
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105 down Anatomy of a Web Search Engine - [paper] by Brin, Page "In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce satisfying results..."
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106 down Exposing the Black Budget - [wired] "The Cold War is over. So why, Paul McGinnis wanted to know, are major CIA, NSA, and Department of Defense programs still being kept secret from Congress and US taxpayers?"
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107 down E-Bomb - [popmechanics] "In the blink of an eye, electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization back 200 years. And terrorists can build them for $400."
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108 down Intelligence Agency Interview - (PDF) (or, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Fort Meade) By Ralph J. Perro (a pseudonym) A first-person narrative of an applicant interviewing and going through the clearance process with the National Security Agency
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109 down The case of the missing code - [salon.com] "Are al-Qaida terrorists hiding their secrets in eBay photographs?" (on terrorist cryptography & steganography)
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110 down homeland insecurity - [theatlantic] "A top expert [bruce schneier] says America's approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget 'foolproof' technology--we need systems designed to fail smartly"
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111 down Cracking Wall Street - [wired] "Suppose you could discern market trends, speed up time to see where those trends were going, then bet on what you discovered. Geeks in suits are doing that today."
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112 down Utopia theory - [physicsweb] "From theories of pedestrian movement and traffic flow to voting processes, economic markets and war, researchers are striving towards a physics of society"
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113 down Formula 2001 - [wired] "220 mph, 17,000 rpm, 500,000 lines of code: Fast-forward computational dynamics are in the driver's seat of today's F1 cars. This isn't just a race - it's a technology war." 500K lines and 20 man-years of C++ code, software engr invasion
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114 down How IT Fixed London Traffic Woes - [ciomag] "In a nation known for spectacular IT failures, a new traffic reduction scheme has gained global attention for its smashing success. The secret? Strong project management applied to well-designed systems."
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115 down mosaic 10yr anniversary - [usatoday] "10 years ago, who knew what his code would do?" anniversary of andreeson's mosaic browser code
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116 down Is there hope for Java? - [salon.com] "A judge has ordered Microsoft to make it easy for Sun's popular programming language to work with Windows. But the remedy may be too little, too late."
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117 down Totally awesome software? - [salon.com] "'Extreme programming' sounds like no more than a marketing-driven fad, but fans are convinced that its rules hold the key to better code."
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118 down Why Nintendo Won't Grow Up - [wired] "Shigeru Miyamoto invented the modern videogame. Now the industry he founded is moving from kid stuff to cultural force. Can the Disney of the game world connect with his inner adult?"
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119 down Sports Rule! - [wired] "In-your-face marketing. Extreme camera angles. Trash-talking superstars. Sound like TV sports? Try sports videogames, where the nastiest competition is the battle to take down the reigning champ, EA Sports."
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120 down Size doesn't matter - [cnn] "A compact new supercomputer could revolutionize the technology industry, processing information 1,000 times faster than conventional computers."
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121 down TOP500 project - [site] "The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released."
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122 down massive attack - [popsci] "Fasten your seatbelts: Peter Jackson's second Lord of the Rings installment will feature one of the most spectacular battle scenes in film history, a product of the digital dark arts"
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123 down cog science refs - [links] The one hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century
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124 down waking up, economy of dreams - [paper] the goertzel, Phd webmind saga.. "The Intricate and Peculiar Torture of Taking One's Tech Company Bankrupt"
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125 down Chess challenge ends in stalemat - [bbcnews] "Man and machine have taken equal honours in the eight-match Brains in Bahrain chess duel. World champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia tied 4-4 with the chess computer Deep Fritz."
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126 down The Church-Turing Thesis - entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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127 down Rise of the Machines - [wired] "Isaac Asimov turned androids into pop culture icons - and invented the science of robotics in the process. Now his classic I, Robot hits the big screen."
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128 down robotic rubiks cube solver - 21st century robot art-- by jp brown
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129 down robotic soccer cup - [site] fully autonomous robots, worldwide AI robotics research
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130 down sony SDR4x biped robot video - [bizweek] amazing video on the sony SDR4x biped robot, walking, dancing etc
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131 down strogatz _Sync_ - [ams] (PDF) review of strogatz' "sync" on small world networks etc. now in paperback
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132 down 18 problems for next century - [ams] (PDF) steven smale
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133 down notices american math society - [site] excellent & outstanding misc. articles, large archive, all PDF articles
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134 down Serious sums for solutions - [guardian] "Solving one of this century's seven top math problems will earn you $1 million, writes Keith Devlin"
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135 down PRIMES Is in P - [ams] (PDF) "A Breakthrough for 'Everyman'", on the proof that primality testing can be done in P time
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136 down ?1m Eternity jackpot scooped - [bbcnews] "An unemployed mathematician has picked up a ?1m prize for solving the Eternity game - two years before its creator expected anyone to crack it."
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137 down MIT Everyware - [wired] "Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style."
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138 down Darknet Content Distribution - [paper] "We investigate the darknet -- a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content. The darknet is not a separate physical network but an application and protocol layer riding on existing networks."
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139 down Bulk E-Mailer - [wsj] Pestering Millions Offers Path to Profit (spam)
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140 down How Can I Sex Up Blog Biz? - [wired] "Hot gossip! Cool gadgets! Gawker & Gizmodo, Fleshbot & Wonkette! Inside Nick Denton's plan to become the nanopublishing media mogul."
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141 down Ideas for Online Publications - [ojr] Lessons From Blogs, Other Signposts by dan froomkin
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142 down The Singularity - [paper] by Vernor Vinge "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."
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143 down the future doesnt need us - [wired] by bill joy, a reaction to singularity ideas including genetics, nanotechnology, robotics
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144 down out of control - [book] the new biology of machines, social systems and the economic world, online book by kevin kelly
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145 down Plenty of Room at the Bottom - [speech] An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics, by Richard Feynman
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146 down engines of creation - [book] eric drexler's classic book on nanotechnology
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147 down molecular assemblers - drexler vs smalley debate
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148 down Disabling the System - [timemag] "Justin Frankel's Winamp threw a monkey wrench into the music business. Now he's going mainstream. Will digital music follow?"
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149 down john horton conway - biography as mathematician
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150 down eric max francis' crank.net - [nyt] profile, eric max francis' study in crackpottery, related section on mathematics
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151 down beautiful mind - [ams] (pdf) nash movie review by mathematician
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152 up When easy math turns hard - [ibm] "Some problems cannot be solved in reasonable time. Just which ones is a question for the field of computational complexity." on the satisfiability problem
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153 up Changes of Mathematical State - [sciencenews] "Untangling a web of conflicting demands can be tough on computers" on the satisfiability problem
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154 up minesweeper proven NP complete - [paper] writeup by ian stewart on theoretical implications of classic game
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155 up physics of the Web - [physicsweb] "Statistical mechanics is offering new insights into the structure and dynamics of the Internet, the World Wide Web and other complex interacting systems." by barabasi
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156 up Blinded by Science - [slate] "Explaining the media's obsession with Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science."
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157 up [ams] wolfram review - lengthy analysis, mathematicians view on wolfram's new kind of science. 12 pages by lawrence gray.
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158 up Spintronics - [sciam] "Microelectronic devices that function by using the spin of the electron are a nascent multibillion-dollar industry--and may lead to quantum microchips"
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159 up Quantum Computing with Molecules - [sciam] "By taking advantage of nuclear magnetic resonance, scientists can coax the molecules in some ordinary liquids to serve as an extraordinary type of computer"
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160 up NIST - [site] US qm computing laboratory center
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161 up qubit.org - [site] center for quantum computation
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162 up Linus Torvalds - [salon.com] linus torvalds & linux articles on salon.com
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163 up Vox Populi, Online and Downtown - [nyt] possibility of cyberspace dialogue altering equation between electorate & govt
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164 up emergent democracy - [paper] "the Internet today is a noisy environment with a great deal of power consolidation instead of the level democratic Internet many envisioned." by joichi ito
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165 up Don't Worry Be Happy - [wired] "The National Security Agency states its case for why key escrow encryption - aka the Clipper Chip - is good for you. A Wired exclusive."
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166 up Crypto Rebels - [wired] "It's the FBIs, NSAs, and Equifaxes of the world versus a swelling movement of Cypherpunks, civil libertarians, and millionaire hackers. At stake: Whether privacy will exist in the 21st century."
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167 up Welcome to Sealand. Bugger Off. - [wired] "Hunkered down on a North Sea fortress, a crew of armed cypherpunks, amped-up networking geeks, and libertarian swashbucklers is seceding from the world to pursue a revolutionary idea: an offshore, fat-pipe data haven that answers to nobody."
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168 up The Hacker Crackdown - [book] Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by bruce sterling
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169 up hacker's hall of fame - [links] TLC tv channel documentary & chart of worlds most notorious hackers
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170 up A new teenage wasteland? - [salon.com] "Script kiddies, Web site defacers, chat-room gangsters: Today's digital troublemakers get a bad rap. But in 'The Hacker Diaries' we learn that they're really all right."
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171 up virus history & timeline - history of software viruses from earliest period to most recent
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172 up Hacking: A history - [bbcnews] profile & timeline of most notorious hacking incidents
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173 up silent weapons for quiet wars - [paper] economic warfare science & mathematics
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174 up In Gold We Trust - [wired] "From gun-wielding libertarians to radical Muslims, an unlikely global cabal is plotting financial revolution. And they're putting their money where the Web is."
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175 up Big Brother & Your Bank Account - [wired] "The US government is constructing a system to track all financial transactions in real-time - ostensibly to catch criminals. Does that leave you with the warm fuzzies - or scare you out of your wits?"
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176 up Wealth spawns corruption - [nature] "Physicists are explaining how politics can create the super-rich."
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177 up gene machine - [wired] "IBM took a dare: Build a supercomputer that predicts the invisible process of protein folding. Spend $100 million, increase processing speed 100-fold, and revolutionize the field. Then convince the biologists it matters."
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178 up foundations of mathematics - [egroup] moderated by martin davis
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179 down All Eyes on Google - [msnbc] "In six short years, two Stanford grad students turned a simple idea into a multibillion-dollar phenomenon and changed our lives. Now competitors are searching for a way to dethrone the latest princes of the Net" by steven levy
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180 down Complete Guide to Googlemania! - [wired] "They named their new search engine Google, for the biggest number they could imagine. But it wasn't big enough. Today Google's a library, an almanac, a settler of bets. It's a parlor game, a dating service, a shopping mall. It's a Microsoft rival
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181 down The New Mobile Infantry - [wired] "Battle-ready robots are rolling out of the research lab and into harm's way."
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182 down is this what war will come to? - [popscience] "Even as the Pentagon struggles with the low-tech reality of war in Iraq, it looks to increasingly bizarre-sounding technology for next-gen fighting systems. On the following pages, five chapters from the Pentagon's sci-fi future."
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183 down primes, codes, and the NSA - [paper] on the NSA interference with the RSA public key encryption patent, by susan landau
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184 down Shrieking in Cyberspace - [laweekly] "Relax. Your computer's fine. We're only blowing billions on an overhyped terror threat" on winn schwartau's 'information warfare'
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185 down insecurity: the cost of monopoly - (PDF) by dan greer et al, on the "microsoft monoculture" as conducive to viruses, issued by the computer & communications industry assoc
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186 down aero - open source software system version for physics simulation, by thomas braunl
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187 down The Trucker & The Professor - [wired] "One crisscrosses the country, hauling his cargo in an 18-wheeler. The other crunches the numbers and starts software companies - five at last count. Meet the twin engines driving the new math-based trucking industry."
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188 down The High Tech Trifecta - [wired] "They've got multimillion-dollar bankrolls, lightning-fast networks, and a probability-crunching system that leaves the odds in the dust. Meet the pari-mutuel fund managers who are redefining horse racing."
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189 down molecular simulation - [newscientist] "New algorithms speed molecular simulations" - new algorithms for the poisson-boltzman eqns for computing mass atom dynamics
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190 down The Unreal Estate Boom - [wired] "The 79th Richest Nation on Earth doesn't exist. The population is 225,000, the hourly wage $3.42. Welcome to virtual paradise, where a carpenter can live in the castle of his dreams - if he doesn't mind an 80-hour workweek..."
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191 down Wild Things - [wired] "They fight. They flock. They have free will. Get ready for game bots with a mind of their own."
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192 down Artificial stupidity - [salon.com] "The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only one thing missing: Smart machines."
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193 down Is Math a Young Man's Game? - [slate] No. Not every mathematician is washed up at 30. By Jordan Ellenberg
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194 down plus magazine - [site] UK mathematics promotion initiative, 5 years of excellent online articles, profiles etc
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195 down plus magazine - [links] feature articles
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196 down Declaration of CyberIndependence - [wired] paper by John Perry Barlow
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197 down Fight over Med. Research Access - [washpost] Online Plan Challenges Publishers' Dominance "The organization, founded by a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and two colleagues, is plotting the overthrow of the system by which scientific results are made known to the world -- a $9 billion publi
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198 down arXiv effect - [ams] (PDF) review, preprint server's effect on mathematics research
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199 down arXiv celebrates decade of hits - [physicsweb] "On its tenth birthday, Peter Gwynne looks at the huge impact of the Los Alamos pre-print server."
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200 down blacknet - [paper] economic implications of anonymity, eg untraceable digital cash, info markets, and blacknet by cypherpunk founder t.c. may
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201 down Benoit Mandlebrot - interview with the father of fractal geometry
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202 down biographies - [site] famous mathematicians
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203 down crank.net - [site] famous net cranks compiled by eric max francis
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204 down the easiest hard problems - [amscientist] brian hayes, on mertens advances in studying computational phase transitions
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205 down wolfram reviews in media - [links] edward clark links to reviews of wolfram in the media
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206 down Linking with Light - [ieee] "Having proven their worth in long-distance communications, photons will soon take over inside the computer"
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207 down silicon is slow - [popscience] "The Goal: Computers millions of times faster. The research into single-molecule transistors, DNA strands, and quantum effects provides tantalizing clues."
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208 down Rules for Complex Quantum World - [sciam] "An exciting new fundamental discipline of research combines information science and quantum mechanics"
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209 down Will QM Computing Become Real? - [newsfactor] "Quantum computing could increase computing power exponentially, and, by including memory with processing, create a computer on a chip."
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210 down Quantum computing with solids - [physicsweb] "Science and technology could be revolutionized by quantum computers, but building them from solid-state devices will not be easy."
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211 down the square root of not - [amscientist] by brian hayes, on qm computing theory & future
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212 down Campaign for Computer Voting - [techreview] "Despite staunch opposition from the computer science community, ATM-style electronic voting may offer the best hope for escaping the mess inflicted by paper-based balloting systems."
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213 down Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace - [paper] "Encryption also gives criminals and terrorists a powerful tool for concealing their activities. " by Dorothy E. Denning and William E. Baugh, Jr
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214 down the future of money - [wired] interview, walter wriston "He used to be the most powerful banker in the world. Now he's talking like a cypherpunk. An amazingly frank interview with Walter Wriston about money, the economy, and the digital era."
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215 down God Is the Machine - [wired] "IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS 0. AND THEN THERE WAS 1. A MIND-BENDING MEDITATION ON THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF DIGITAL COMPUTATION."
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216 down Why Is This Man Smiling? - [wired] "Digital animators are closing in on the complex system that makes a face come alive."
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217 down Feynman & The Connection Machine - reminiscences by daniel hillis
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218 down The Long Now - [wired] By Po Bronson: Time-traveling with Danny Hillis.
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219 down Curse of Xanadu - [wired] "It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson ..."
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220 down benoit mandelbrot - "Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature."
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221 down An incurable itch - [economist] profile of Carver Mead, silicon visionary
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222 down john nash - [popscience] profile & minibiography
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223 down Think Networks - interview with Albert-L?szl? Barab?si, uncoverer of small world network properties
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224 down phil zimmermann - [site] creator of PGP encryption, early software engr icon
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