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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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Call For Participation
Have you ever attended an open source conference? In my article for ComputerWorldUK today, I briefly review four good choices that you can attend over the next...
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Explaining OSI Membership
The video of my keynote at OSCON is now live on YouTube: That link I mentioned: opensource.org/join
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Portland Submarine tour
Portland Submarine tour, a set on Flickr. One enjoyable perk of being a speaker at OSCON and a new author at O’Reilly Media was an invitation to their “Friends”...
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OSI Opens For Membership
You can finally join OSI. I’ve had a busy day at OSCON in Portland, OR today (apologies if I’ve been missing your messages and/or deadlines…) where interest around...
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Even The ITU Is Worried
A press release at the end of last week disclosed the ITU is worried about the epidemic of patent litigation and the abuse of RAND terms on patents by industry...
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GPL Forked
A new project that forks the GPL shows that Github isn’t just for software developers. See my column in InfoWorld this week for more.
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Bosonics
What is a Higgs Boson? I think this animation from PHD Comics is brilliant.
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How ACTA Nearly Won
ACTA was defeated today in the European Parliament, but one British Liberal-Democrat MEP voted for it. Understanding why helps us to understand how the political...
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ACTA Needs You
Just posted on ComputerWorldUK – why you need to call or write to your MEP now, ahead of Wednesday’s vote on ACTA, and how to do it. By the way, is anyone else...
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Solving NP-Complete Problems?
In preparing for the interview with the Java-based Drools Planner on FLOSS Weekly, my attention was grabbed by the claim it can solve NP-complete problems. You’ll...
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Red Hat
Not every project hits the headlines. As I’ve been co-hosting FLOSS Weekly over the last few months, I’ve noticed a surprising number of projects showing up that...
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Google Uses Famous Users As G+ Test Team
The Google Plus team turned on a new feature today while it was being announced at Google IO in San Francisco. Google+ Events is a new feature that integrates Google...
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Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?
Oracle probably thought they’d killed OpenSolaris after they bought Sun and focussed so many resources on Sun’s hardware business. But that sort of thinking would...
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A Database Ripe For Abuse
The draft Communications Data Bill is of great concern, not primarily because it lacks controls over who can access private data – these will be added – but because...
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See you at OSCON?
I’ve news. My talk – about why OSI is more relevant than ever – has been accepted for OSCON
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