Author of Seven Seconds and Maximum Impact (aka Circumference of Darkness in the U.S.)
Posted in News, Research Archive on May 24th, 2009
from John Markoff at The New York Times Artificial intelligence is back in fashion, which raises the question: Will computer intelligence surpass our own? Others who have observed the increasing power of computing technology are even less sanguine about the future outcome. The computer designer and venture capitalist William Joy, for example, wrote a pessimistic [...]
Posted in News, Research Archive on May 22nd, 2009
The goal of this bill is simple: direct the Government Accountability Office to complete, before the end of 2010, an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of the federal reserve banks, and provide a detailed report to Congress. The bill also retains/reaffirms the power of the Comptroller General to [...]
Posted in News, Research Archive on May 18th, 2009
Few science teams can match the flash and audacity of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Last week DARPA showed off 9 future projects that tackle building blazing, secure networks, longer-flying unmanned aircraft, faster vaccine delivery, and more. read more | digg story
Posted in News, Research Archive on May 17th, 2009
I suppose the two books I’ve written (and the third that I’m working on now) are historical thrillers, in that there’s a lot of inter-mixing of things that actually did happen, with things that probably happened (though we may never be able to verify them), rounded out with some other exciting things that didn’t happen [...]
Posted in News on May 16th, 2009
The Federal Reserve’s recent and unprecedented actions in the realm of monetary policy have provoked a backlash among the American people. Trillions of dollars worth of loans and guarantees have been provided to Wall Street firms, while Main Street Americans suffocate. It’s time to audit the Fed. read more | digg story
Posted in News on May 11th, 2009
from The Guardian In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book. “The circumstances surrounding the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four make a haunting narrative that helps to explain the bleakness of Orwell’s dystopia. Here was an English writer, desperately sick, grappling alone with the [...]
Posted in News, Research Archive on May 10th, 2009
from The Guardian An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds. Brake has produced a draft report of his experiences for the human rights committee, having received written statements from people in the crowd. [...]
Posted in News on May 9th, 2009
Those behind the Zeus botnet recently decided to press the big red button, bluescreening 100,000 computers around the globe. Security experts aren’t sure why yet, although they have some ideas. read more | digg story
Posted in News on May 8th, 2009
from National Geographic Thousands of miles above Earth, a cosmic chorus is filling the heavens with a mysterious, low frequency “hiss.” That’s the conclusion of scientists studying data from a set of NASA probes designed to monitor substorms — dramatic exchanges of energy among charged particles that spark the auroras at Earth’s poles. read more [...]
Posted in News on May 5th, 2009
from William J. Broad at The New York Times Published: May 5, 2009 A fight is looming on Long Island over the ghostly remains of Nikola Tesla’s biggest and most audacious project. read more
Posted in News on May 5th, 2009
The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind of information the botnet gathers as well as the behavior of Internet users who are [...]
