If 50% of the accidents are caused by men, does that mean men shouldn't be allowed to drive? There are standards in the scientific community for how to do valid prospective and retrospective studies. You can then measure whether using or not using something actually increases (or not) your probability of experiencing the undesirable event.
Perhaps some of the knowledge broadcast has a negative value, so the absolute value of the knowledge broadcast is high, but the net information distributed is much smaller?
It isn't the analytical engine, but it works... today... and can be seen at the Computer History Museum in the SF Bay Area. http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
It is easy for everyone to see and experience innovation in the consumer space, especially websites and consumer electronics. Innovation in back-end or enterprise systems can be very important to the profitability of a company, to the success of a government project, or to the reliability of the online services that support those consumer devices. Successful research and development arms of companies enhance and extend their parent business's model...and yes, occasionally they create new business for the parent to enter. Companies that don't sell directly to consumers still need to innovate to survive.
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The right story to cite is Robert Heinlein's "The year of the jackpot". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Jackpot
Note from the history at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/04/r-3190/the_role_of_enterprise_generation_language.pdf, the origin of EGL (once called 4GL) goes back to the 1980s.
He truly made the world a better place.
You really don't want that....SCOTUS will likely rule that only corporations can legally record public officials.
Good summary - the admins come off as the worst kind of detail-oriented bureaucrats.
If 50% of the accidents are caused by men, does that mean men shouldn't be allowed to drive? There are standards in the scientific community for how to do valid prospective and retrospective studies. You can then measure whether using or not using something actually increases (or not) your probability of experiencing the undesirable event.
Leave it to the private sector.
Congress will immediately begin cutting the budget for all intra-stellar mass transit.
Is there a $25 baggage check fee?
Perhaps some of the knowledge broadcast has a negative value, so the absolute value of the knowledge broadcast is high, but the net information distributed is much smaller?
Try http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/nickmitchell/publications/lcsd2005.pdf to a paper called "Diary of a Datum" and http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1297046 to another paper called "The causes of bloat, the limits of health". Both describe studies of large running applications in situ.
Full disclosure - I work for IBM Research and these papers were by folks in my department.
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It isn't the analytical engine, but it works ... today ... and can be seen at the Computer History Museum in the SF Bay Area. http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
Will the gold ATM charge fees in bars of silver?
Tax them? Make them pay a toll?
It is easy for everyone to see and experience innovation in the consumer space, especially websites and consumer electronics. Innovation in back-end or enterprise systems can be very important to the profitability of a company, to the success of a government project, or to the reliability of the online services that support those consumer devices. Successful research and development arms of companies enhance and extend their parent business's model...and yes, occasionally they create new business for the parent to enter. Companies that don't sell directly to consumers still need to innovate to survive.
... and if you were really a program, would you say anything different?
or are you?
I agree...his Scientific American articles brought out all the magic in mathematics.
PJ posts "Why I Believe IBM is Free to Sue The Pants Off TurboHercules" at http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100408153953613
Now I know why slashdot asks you to use preview mode to double check those urls....how about: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/j/Jaffe:Jeffrey_M=.html
It is fine to argue with Jeff's software philosophy, his use of buzz words in his blog, or his politics. But he is not an idiot MBA who doesn't know his way around a PC. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE (for his technical contributions in algorithms and computer networks). He was a researcher before he became a corporate exec (see his publications at http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/j/Jaffe:Jeffrey_M=.html/ and http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM&query=Jeffrey+M.+Jaffe&short=1/).
IMHO, a more interesting financial turing test would be to distinguish between human and computer-generated financial advice.
The mouse came from Doug Englelbart at SRI, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse.
Her copyright on her work in the US already exists for her lifetime. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act, US copyright law already exists for the "life of the author plus 70 years ...".