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ESA highlights online games as key future technology - 3 views

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technology inf online gaming education

shared by Ma Ru on 23 Mar 10 - Cached

Ma Ru on 23 Mar 10

Did you know that? (Obviously you should, as it's GSP)

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andreiaries on 24 Mar 10

I was actually at the mid-term review in Sweden last year. Also played the game for a few minutes. The final presentation is next week in case anyone in the ACT is interested.

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UW researchers look to reinvent the graphical user interface - 4 views

blog.seattlepi.com/...200101.asp

shared by LeopoldS on 31 Mar 10 - Cached

LeopoldS on 31 Mar 10

Francesco have a look at this - any interest?

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Slashdot Apple Story | Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed - 1 views

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 09 Mar 10 - Cached

The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself
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Francesco Biscani on 09 Mar 10

Juicy bits about the JesusPhone's developer program.

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - 2 views

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Ma Ru on 18 May 10

Funny :) But the guy does not mention Logo...

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The Semicolon Wars » American Scientist - 2 views

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 07 Jan 11 - No Cached

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Francesco Biscani on 07 Jan 11

Pretty interesting piece on computer languages.

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Luís F. Simões on 07 Jan 11

Yes, very good, but I don't get what all the fuss is about... everyone knows Python is the ultimate programming language! :) Follow up reading: If programming languages were religions... (quite accurate actually) Great quote from the article you linked to: In 1975 Edsger W. Dijkstra, a major figure in the structured-programming movement, wrote a memo titled "How Do We Tell Truths that Might Hurt?" The "truths" were mostly Dijkstra's opinions of programming languages; how he told them was very bluntly. Fortran is "an infantile disorder," PL/I "a fatal disease," APL "a mistake, carried through to perfection." Students exposed to COBOL "are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration," he said. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Yes, very good, but I don't get what all the fuss is about... everyone knows Python is the ultimate programming language! :) Follow up reading: If programming languages were religions... (quite accurate actually) Great quote from the article you linked to: In 1975 Edsger W. Dijkstra, a major figure in the structured-programming movement, wrote a memo titled "How Do We Tell Truths that Might Hurt?" The "truths" were mostly Dijkstra's opinions of programming languages; how he told them was very bluntly. Fortran is "an infantile disorder," PL/I "a fatal disease," APL "a mistake, carried through to perfection." Students exposed to COBOL "are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration," he said. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."</div>

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Francesco Biscani on 07 Jan 11

Fool! You can pry my templates from my cold dead hands!

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Kettling Wikileaks | DefectiveByDesign.org - 1 views

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INF politics opensource

shared by LeopoldS on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached

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LeopoldS on 21 Dec 10

sympathetic point of view ... I am sure Francesco will appreciate ...

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Luís F. Simões on 22 Dec 10

the great Richard Stallman ( http://xkcd.com/225/ ). Nice article indeed.

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New Device May Revolutionize Computer Memory - 2 views

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shared by Dario Izzo on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached

Dario Izzo on 24 Jan 11

Not a revolution, but certainly a big improvement

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breakthrough in number theory! sequence of partition number unveiled - 2 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110120090950.htm

inf math cryptograpjy

shared by Dario Izzo on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached

Dario Izzo on 20 Jan 11

I wonder if threre are consequences in cryptography

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dejanpetkow on 21 Jan 11

Could be worth to look for a bridge to Santilli's Isonumber Theory.

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Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP - Slashdot - 0 views

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INF computer science mathematics algorithm complexity P=NP?

shared by Luís F. Simões on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached

"Vladimir Romanov has released what he claims is a polynomial-time algorithm for solving 3-SAT. Because 3-SAT is NP-complete, this would imply that P==NP. While there's still good reason to be skeptical that this is, in fact, true, he's made source code available and appears decidedly more serious than most of the people attempting to prove that P==NP or P!=NP. Even though this is probably wrong, just based on the sheer number of prior failures, it seems more likely to lead to new discoveries than most. Note that there are already algorithms to solve 3-SAT, including one that runs in time (4/3)^n and succeeds with high probability. Incidentally, this wouldn't necessarily imply that encryption is worthless: it may still be too slow to be practical."
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Luís F. Simões on 20 Jan 11

here we go again...

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Luís F. Simões on 28 Feb 11

slashdot: "Russian computer scientist Vladimir Romanov has conceded that his previously published solution to the '3 SAT' problem of boolean algebra does not work."

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Carrier Testing for Severe Childhood Recessive Diseases by Next-Generation Sequencing -... - 3 views

www.sciencemedicine.org/...65ra4.short

genomics bio INF

shared by LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11

scary but very likely development ... blessing in disguise?

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LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11

scary but very likely development ... blessing in disguise?

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http://www.iseclab.org/papers/egele-ndss11.pdf - 3 views

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shared by LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11

check your iPhone / iPod

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YouTube - 7 digital trends at Davos 2011 [World Economic Forum talk] - 3 views

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shared by LeopoldS on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached

dejanpetkow on 28 Jan 11

I like the iToilet. In Japan this technology is used since many years, even on public places. In this sense, the electrified toilet is a trend only in western countries.

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The Fantastical Promise of Reversible Computing - Technology Review - 2 views

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INF reversible logic computing chip electronics quantum cellular_automata

shared by Luís F. Simões on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached

Reversible logic could cut the energy wasted by computers to zero. But significant challenges lie ahead.
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By some estimates the difference between the amount of energy required to carry out a computation and the amount that today's computers actually use, is some eight orders of magnitude. Clearly, there is room for improvement.
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There are one or two caveats, of course. The first is that nobody has succeeded in building a properly reversible logic gate so this work is entirely theoretical. But there are a number of computing schemes that have the potential to work like this. Thapliyal and Ranganathan point in particular to the emerging technology of quantum cellular automata and show how their approach might be applied.
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Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1101.4222: Reversible Logic Based Concurrent Error Detection Methodology For Emerging Nanocircuits
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Dario Izzo on 26 Jan 11

We did look at making computation powers more efficient from the bio perspective (efficiency of computations in brain). This paper was actually the base for our discussion on a new approsach to computing http://atlas.estec.esa.int/ACTwiki/images/6/68/Sarpeshkar.pdf and led to several ACT internal studies

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Luís F. Simões on 26 Jan 11

here is the paper I told you about, on the computational power of analog computing: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(95)00248-0 you can also get it here: http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/95-09-079.pdf

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How one man tracked down Anonymous - and paid a heavy price - 3 views

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached

Francesco Biscani on 10 Feb 11

HIGHLY suggested read if you are interested in the Anonymous phenomenon.

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IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation - Special Issue on Differential Evolution - 3 views

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inf optimisation differential evolution evolutionary computation

shared by Ma Ru on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached

Ma Ru on 03 Mar 11

Dario - perhaps worth giving a look to be up-to-date... There's even an article "Improving Classical and Decentralized Differential Evolution with New Mutation Operator and Population Topologies". They quote our CEC paper, but not the ParCo.

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Ma Ru on 03 Mar 11

Don't know if you have full text access, so here goes the quote: "Recently, Izzo et al. designed in [27] a heterogeneous asynchronous island model for DE. They considered five islands and five DE strategies (DE/best/1/exp, DE/rand/1/exp, DE/rand-to-best/1/exp, DE/best/2/exp, and DE/rand/2/exp), and studied five distributed DEs using the same DE strategy in all the islands, and a heterogeneous model with one different DE strategy in every island. As a result, the heterogeneous model is not outstanding, but performs as well as the others."

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Joris _ on 03 Mar 11

Isn't it a bit a paper-killing quote?

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Ma Ru on 03 Mar 11

:) It's in the context of a review of the work that's been done about DE with island model in general, they don't evaluate. Pity they didn't refer to the ParCo article on topologies, as it was a bit more extensive and more focused on the method (as they do in the article) rather than on the problem (as was our CEC paper, if I recall well).

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IBM Patenting HAL-Like Stuffed Animal Toys - Slashdot - 3 views

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technology inf AI bio

shared by LeopoldS on 07 Mar 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 07 Mar 11

should we buy this to educate behaviour at ACT meetings ... or only for our babies :-)

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Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore - 5 views

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Francesco Biscani on 22 Feb 11

There it goes :)

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Ma Ru on 22 Feb 11

"So a new tablet will never be exciting the way that a new, luxury gel ink pen will be exciting" Man, I immediately felt like ordering some new luxury gel ink pens!

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LeopoldS on 22 Feb 11

like also this one: "Some of the really savvy new media efforts like Flipboard are exciting, but after the initial "wow" factor wears off, these apps mainly serve to remind me that there's already too much good stuff to read out there, and that my life is slipping away from me in an infinite stream of interesting bits about smart animals, dumb criminals, outrageous celebs, shiny objects, funny memes, scientific discoveries, economic developments, etc.. I invariably end up closing the app in a fit of guilt, and picking up one of the truly fantastic dead tree or Kindle books that I'm working my way through at the moment, so that I can actually exercise my brain (as opposed to simply wearing it out)."

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Eco - "Writings: IBM vs. Mac" - 5 views

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The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant.
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Francesco Biscani on 07 Mar 11

An amusing opinion piece by Italian writer Umberto Eco.

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LeopoldS on 07 Mar 11

read this first time 10 years ago - but always nice to re-read indeed ...

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NASA - Open Source Summit 2011 - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/source

technology inf source open conference

shared by LeopoldS on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 14 Mar 11

can't come at a better time with respect to SOCIS ....

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Google's 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve - 7 views

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Dario Izzo on 16 Mar 11

Well, well, Google says it. And all is a result of an algorithm..... Among the interesting fincings the algorithm says that technical competence of the boss is not needed..... against their own beliefs!!

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LeopoldS on 16 Mar 11

"Although people are always looking for the next new thing in leadership," he said, "Google's data suggest that not much has changed in terms of what makes for an effective leader."

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nikolas smyrlakis on 16 Mar 11

"Managers often want to hire people who seem just like them" does the ACT look like the managers or the managers like the ACT ? hmmm

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Ma Ru on 16 Mar 11

"the topic often feels a bit like golf" What other comparison can one use in an article aimed towards managers? :D

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LeopoldS on 17 Mar 11

nobody in the ACT plays golf yet as far as I know ...

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Ma Ru on 17 Mar 11

Which is a pity as you have a golf field not that far away :-D Maybe a good idea for a nice team building event??

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