If you want to tie in Kevin Warwick's work to a particular work of fiction, you would be better off starting with Robert Llewellyn's (yes, that one of Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge fame) book Brother Nature which actually has an acknowledgment in the front to the effect that...
"I have to thank Professor Kevin Warwick at the Cybernetics Department of Reading University. He was very generous with his knowledge during the research period of this book. Professor Warwick is the first human being to insert an active computer chip into his body, directly connected to his central nervous system. Proof that this story is not science fiction."
Two things which spring to mind when comparing this book with Prof Warwick's self aggrandising waffle are that...
A person whose only previous experience in cybernetics involved wearing a rubber mask in a BBC TV comedy show seems to have a far greater technical grasp on the subject that our erstwhile Prof.
The novel is by definition and admission a work of fiction.
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There may be some clues as to what the Caspian people are trying to achieve on Roberts' now somewhat out of date home page. In particular, the discussion as to why TCP is inappropriate for flow control in modern high-bandwidth networks. Certainly it appears that TCP has a case to answer and that providing some form of intelligent flow control within the core could be used as a mechanism to get around TCP's limitations. Of course, the other option is to try and fix TCP itself.....
This is what happens when the beancounters take over an IP company and they forget what it is that they are actually out there selling. If we look at the more successful silicon IP vendors out there (ARM is a good example) they package up the patent-orientated intellectual property with a support and service package which makes the purchase of their product worthwhile (ie, it gets the user of the IP product to market faster and cheaper than they otherwise would have done with an in-house design). In the past I've designed an ARM clone for personal use in an FPGA hack, but on a professional basis I recommend buying the real thing. If there's no difference in support between buying in external intellectual property and hacking it together yourself, the IP vendor hasn't got a business. QED Rambust.
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"I have to thank Professor Kevin Warwick at the Cybernetics Department of Reading University. He was very generous with his knowledge during the research period of this book. Professor Warwick is the first human being to insert an active computer chip into his body, directly connected to his central nervous system. Proof that this story is not science fiction."
Two things which spring to mind when comparing this book with Prof Warwick's self aggrandising waffle are that...
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This is what happens when the beancounters take over an IP company and they forget what it is that they are actually out there selling. If we look at the more successful silicon IP vendors out there (ARM is a good example) they package up the patent-orientated intellectual property with a support and service package which makes the purchase of their product worthwhile (ie, it gets the user of the IP product to market faster and cheaper than they otherwise would have done with an in-house design). In the past I've designed an ARM clone for personal use in an FPGA hack, but on a professional basis I recommend buying the real thing. If there's no difference in support between buying in external intellectual property and hacking it together yourself, the IP vendor hasn't got a business. QED Rambust.