Elections Canada has a report, written in 1998, from KPMG/Sussex Circle on their web page outlining issues in voting technology, as they pertain to Canadian electoral policy.
The authors of the report use the state of Florida as an example of a U.S. state that has investigated internet voting, particularly for their absentee voters.
In evolutionary biology, where we are focusing on reconstructing the tree of life, there are actually very few programs that are licensed under the GPL or the LGPL. There is *one* program (Paup, being distributed with manual by Sinauer) upon which most evolutionary biologists depend that has been in beta testing for 6+ years. With a 30 day expiration built into the binaries (of course, source code is not distributed). The author refuses to license the code under the GPL or the LGPL or any other type of open source licensing scheme. Where I work, we have a cluster of linux systems for this tree of life reconstruction - they are sitting mostly idle because the most recent beta of this program expired last January. The next beta is not even likely to have PVM or MPI support. Anybody want to do some programming for me?:)
In some places within NIH, they have Beowulf clusters installed. I think they have a series of high-end PCs that get refreshed every 2-3 years, with the outgoing boxes becoming desktop machines.
The SATs are actually renormed every 15-20 years or so... (the mean is reset to 100) It turns out that each generation is smarter than the last... Based on SAT scores alone, the grandparents of a current high school student would likely be considered "borderline mentally retarded" if their scores from ca. 1949 were compared to today's standards... see Science vol 283, march19 issue, pp1832-1834; http://www.sciencemag.org
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Elections Canada has a report, written in 1998, from KPMG/Sussex Circle on their web page outlining issues in voting technology, as they pertain to Canadian electoral policy.
The authors of the report use the state of Florida as an example of a U.S. state that has investigated internet voting, particularly for their absentee voters.
In evolutionary biology, where we are focusing on reconstructing the tree of life, there are actually very few programs that are licensed under the GPL or the LGPL. There is *one* program (Paup, being distributed with manual by Sinauer) upon which most evolutionary biologists depend that has been in beta testing for 6+ years. With a 30 day expiration built into the binaries (of course, source code is not distributed). The author refuses to license the code under the GPL or the LGPL or any other type of open source licensing scheme. Where I work, we have a cluster of linux systems for this tree of life reconstruction - they are sitting mostly idle because the most recent beta of this program expired last January. The next beta is not even likely to have PVM or MPI support. Anybody want to do some programming for me? :)
In some places within NIH, they have Beowulf clusters installed. I think they have a series of high-end PCs that get refreshed every 2-3 years, with the outgoing boxes becoming desktop machines.
The SATs are actually renormed every 15-20 years or so... (the mean is reset to 100) It turns out that each generation is smarter than the last... Based on SAT scores alone, the grandparents of a current high school student would likely be considered "borderline mentally retarded" if their scores from ca. 1949 were compared to today's standards... see Science vol 283, march19 issue, pp1832-1834; http://www.sciencemag.org