Here is my weekly selection of articles that were not commented here — except if I missed them.
W3C Specifies Architecture For Whole Web
Source: Yvonne L. Lee, Software Development (SD) Times, January 15, 2005
Sort ‘em out with Plaxo, the sheep from the goats
Source: Alan T. Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 2005
Web Surfers Crack G.M.’s Mystery Ad
Source: The New York Times, January 24, 2005 (Free registration, permanent link)
He uses robots to divide and conquer
Source: Chris Berdik, The Boston Globe, January 25, 2005
New RCN service offers Net-connected surveillance
Source: Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe, January 27, 2005
Machines using genetic algorithms are better than humans at designing other machines
Source: Sam Williams, Technology Review, February 2005
Internet project forecasts global warming
Source: Michael Hopkin, Nature, January 26, 2005
Graduate Cryptographers Unlock Code of ‘Thiefproof’ Car Key
Source: John Schwartz, The New York Times, January 29, 2005 (Free registration, permanent link)
Consortium attracts techno-experts
Source: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, New Zealand, January 27, 2005, via Scoop
AI agents used to smooth wrinkles in housing project
Source: Heather Havenstein, Computerworld, January 28, 2005
Connecting brains to computers could circumvent disabilities
Source: Christen Brownlee, Science News Online, Week of Jan. 29, 2005; Vol. 167, No. 5
MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte pushes an hundred-buck PC
Source: Red Herring, January 29, 2005
See you next week…
Comments
@ 15:47
GAs as comeback kids. Some consider genetic algorithms a 90s kind of technology, but they are making a come back in 2005 for some of the reasons the Williams Technology Review article (cited above) mentions. In short, GAs work, they have been shown to be theoretically tractable (scalable to larger, harder problems), and they are getting better (faster, more broadly applied). I have called the new generation of GAs, competent GAs, because they solve hard problems quickly, reliably, and accurately (see the book The Design of Innovation for details), and to show that I’m not some old guy stuck in a 90s timewarp myself, my lab members and I are now cardcarrying members of the blogosphere at IlliGAL Blogging. Specifically, we’re blogging on GAs and other forms of weird computation. As a group we’re fairly well in tune with the smart mobs theme of this site (for example, see the DISCUS site).
@ 17:39
Thanks, David! I’ll check it out. You see a connection between GAs and smart mobs?