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POPSOn The Origin of Internet a panel discussion with recollections and perspectives from Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn, Don Nielson and other key pioneers and luminaries involved.
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POPSThe Real Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet ...But I would much rather talk about future possibilities, and so I wrote a few historical notes to provide some context for the 1975 paper, and now can try to discuss some of the more important, and mostly hidden, gifts that personal computing networked together around the world can bring to humanity. Our thought was: but if we can get the children to learn the real thing then in a few generations the big change will happen. 32 years later the technologies that our research community invented are in general use by more than a billion people, and we have gradually learned how to teach children the real thing. But it looks as though the actual revolution will take longer than our optimism suggested, largely because the commercial and educational interests in the old media and modes of thought have frozen personal computing pretty much at the “imitation of paper, recordings, film and TV” level.
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POPSVarying Environments Can Speed Up Evolution Using computer simulations, we find that evolution toward goals that change over time can, in certain cases, dramatically speed up evolution compared with evolution toward a fixed goal. The highest speedup is found under modularly varying goals, in which goals change over time such that each new goal shares some of the subproblems with the previous goal. The speedup increases with the complexity of the goal: the harder the problem, the larger the speedup. Modularly varying goals seem to push populations away from local fitness maxima, and guide them toward evolvable and modular solutions. This study suggests that varying environments might significantly contribute to the speed of natural evolution.
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POPSThe Simulated Universe ... In this article, I provide an exposition of the Simulated Universe argument and explain why some philosophers believe that there is a high possibility that we exist in a simulation. I will then discuss the type of evidence that we would need to determine whether we exist in a simulation. Finally, I will describe two objections to the argument before concluding that while interesting, we should reject the Simulated Universe argument. This article is a critique on Nick Bostroms article Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
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POPSTedTalks: Brain Science About to Fundamentally Change Computing (Jeff Hawkins, 2003) To date, there hasn't been an overarching theory of how the human brain really works, Jeff Hawkins argues in this compelling talk. That's because we still haven't defined intelligence accurately. But one thing's for sure, he says: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next. Bringing this new brain science to computer devices will enable powerful new applications -- and it will happen sooner than you think.
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POPSDemocratizing the Information Revolution. The Technological Proletariat Through the illustrative work of Sugata Mitra, an Indian computer scientist, we will turn to Dewey’s understanding of both inquiry and education – how we think and how we should learn – with an eye towards their potential for the ‘furnishing of proper conditions’ that Dewey speaks of in our first quotation. More strongly, this paper shows that Dewey’s philosophy of inquiry and education can provide the model for a mass computer-literacy initiative along the lines of those already devised by Sugata Mitra. Given the enormous amount of tools and information available on the Internet , the possibilities today for communication and learning as selfeducation are fantastic. It becomes our job, then, to explain precisely how we might allow this ‘technological proletariat’ to gain access to the democratizing possibilities of the ‘Information Revolution.’
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POPSMicrosoft going Modular Microsoft's patent for a modular operating system (as opposed to a monolithic kernel) Looks like Gartner was right all along.
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POPSDan Dediu, on evolution, linguistics, etc. a few publications by Dan Dediu, whose main research interests revolve around biology (especially evolutionary theory and genetics), human evolution (palaeontology and genetics) and linguistics (historical linguistics, linguistic diversity and language evolution). Being a keen fan of C++, I am interested in applying computational modeling techniques almost everywhere source page is heavily linked ... could be an interesting resource.
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