Upon2020 (archive)
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From a Talk by Rick Cattell
Rick Cattell, Distinguished Engineer at Sun quotes Bob Taylor, manager of Xerox PARC CS Lab: Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If they’re really good ideas, you usually have to cram them down their throats.
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The Markle Foundation report on “Protecting America’s Freedom in the Information Age”
I’m reading this report because someone I know, and I have great respect for, Tara Lemmey, was involved in its creation. One thing that’s great and unique about the United States is that groups like this spring up basically on their own, and they produce high-quality work. Whether it will be applied by the powers-to-be…
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An old CDIF picture
Bob Lechner, one of the old CDIF people (my Intro to CDIF, although mostly only of historical interest now, is still on-line), gave me this picture taken at a CDIF meeting which took place — if I recall this correctly — in January 1996. It was taken on the deck of the Del Coronado Hotel,…
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A New Twist on the Evolution of Cooperation
Axelrod’s famous book "The Evolution of Cooperation" has been one of my all-time favorites for a long time. SmartMobs now reports via Wired that a new successful strategy has been found for the iterated prisoners’ dilemma that is different from Tit-for-Tat. This strategy basically steps out of the original system by having prior knowledge of…
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Lance Knobel: Amateur Security is Rather Nice
Lance Knobel writes on security at the British Prime Minister’s office: A few years ago, when I first had to go to Downing Street, the security consisted of a policeman checking your name was on a list. If it was, you were ushered through the gates and walked to Number Ten. No one checked your…