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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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? The Business Of Open Source Is
Migrating from Sun to Novell? While this is slick (if predictable) marketing there's a smarter solution than switching away from the software in which you've already...
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? Political Costs Prevent Actual Savings
Proprietary technology is a waste of money, says Kroes The speech by Neelie Kroes last week in Brussels was very carefully constructed and avoided almost all mention...
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? Your Chance To Reform
The Open Source Initiative is ready for a refit, and it needs your help to make it happen.
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links for 2010-06-13
The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer Since the World Cup seems to be as inescapable as death and taxes, here's a vital guide to understanding its esoterica...
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links for 2010-06-10
Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club Well worth reading this article. The TV programme 'Glee' features a singing club as the backdrop for a situational...
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? BCS Rebels Finally Get A Voice
Rajan Anketell, one of the signatories calling the BCS EGM, said in a broadcast e-mail: “You will already be aware of the EGM call, of which I am a signatory. You...
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? BCS Leadership Targets Member Rights
On Monday I wrote about the crisis facing the British Computer Society (BCS) as its current leadership tries to jettison the old name. I found out about the move...
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links for 2010-06-07
Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit Here's a view I'd not considered: "Just less than 3 years ago, Microsoft was still perceived...
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? BCS Faces No-Confidence Vote Crisis
I just received notice of an Emergency General Meeting at the British Computer Society – some members think the current leadership want to
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links for 2010-06-06
MPEG LA – The Standard for Standards – Want to Form a Pool? To be clear, MPEG-LA is a parasite using standards bodies as its host, whether they want it or not....
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? Google Fixes WebM
I’m delighted to say that Google has fixed the licence for WebM so that they don;’t need to submit it to OSI any more – they are now just using a BSD licence with...
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links for 2010-06-04
EU plays catch-up with US digital economy There are some very worrying phrases in this legislative push, suggesting that the lobbying by big corporations to get...
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links for 2010-06-02
Patent cloud looms over Google Web video plan "The VP8 patent situation is no different from the patent challenges that face any computing innovation, from search...
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? Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough
In an unusual move for such a significant news item, the UK government announced over the weekend that they were ordering all government departments to embark on...
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? Transparency, Privacy and Genius
Analysis: this government is open to scrutiny Noble words that, if truly implemented, take Britain down a path to open governmnet and citizen scrutiny. But only...
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? Transparency and Good Will
The SEC and The Python What does open source have to do with open data? This extremely insightful move by the SEC demonstrates that the syntax of open data is not...
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Getting The Point
The EGM debate: BCS v Len Keighley This FAQ/debate article with an anonymous BCS spokesbeing make it clear what the issue at the BCS is all about, both directly...
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BCS EGM
BCS EGM The British Computer Society is in the process of being transformed into The Chartered Institute of IT. This is the wrong direction – it’s becoming a club...
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