November 2010
3 posts
October 2009
4 posts
Afghanistan is often called the “Graveyard of Empires,” but I think the phrase...
– The ESPN Zone of Empires
June 2009
3 posts
SPINdle is a logic reasoner that can be used to compute the consequence of...
– The SPIN Research Project
This is the core and fundamental challenge for social and professional network...
– { Shared Profiles • Semantic Profiles • Secure Policies • Social Platforms } 4 Interactive Networks
May 2009
31 posts
The Algebra of Programming group at Oxford studies programming languages and...
– Algebra of Programming Research Group
Textbook piracy already exists. If you know where to look online, you can find...
– Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior by Jason Kincaid
I think human-level artificial intelligence will be achieved. (John McCarthy)
– What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
Their drive to survive is beyond our imagination,” says Chun Junghee, head...
– The war crime that is Kim Jong Il’s continued rule by Thomas P M Barnett
1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There’s nothing funny about IBM...
– A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages by James Iry
It’s no big stretch of the imagination for a foreign-policy expert to...
– Can We Stop a Pirate 9/11? by Thomas P. M. Barnett
Mountains on rapidly rotating neutron stars efficiently radiate gravitational...
– The Breaking Strain of Neutron Star Crust and Gravitational Waves by Horowitz and Kadau
The U.S. Navy said on Tuesday it decided not to send a warship on a planned...
– Flu cancels U.S. Navy mission to Pacific from AlertNet
To 1st Sgt. Stanton Brown of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, watching a...
– Ajax in Iraq via Kings of War
When an entrepreneur picks up a book like 4 Hour Workweek, it’s probably by...
– How to Work 80+ Hour Weeks
Post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan is an under-studied and poorly understood...
– Taking Lessons From Just North from Registan
[FM 3-24.2, Tactics in Counterinsurgency] establishes doctrine for tactical...
– Tactics in Counterinsurgency from Small Wars Journal
YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING . AROUND YOU...
– Colossal Cave FORTRAN Source Code
Tanenbaum originally developed Minix in the 1980s as a teaching aid. The latest...
– Andrew Tanenbaum’s Minix 3 by Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni
Two critical elections will take place in early June that could potentially...
– Lebanon’s Elections and Iranian Influence by Thomas Strouse
I knew his answer and I drew my sword. And many spirits gathered to my side. But...
– Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy by George Santayana
NestedVM provides binary translation for Java Bytecode. This is done by having...
– NestedVM
But they still face prejudice, based almost entirely on where they live or their...
– Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets
Instability could cause the constitutional government to collapse entirely and...
– The Taliban’s Atomic Threat by John Bolton