Links for 4 May 2008
A quick round-up of interesting bits and pieces from the blogosphere:
On the Battlefield, There Are No Surprises, USC News – DARPA aims to eliminate ‘friction’ from the battlefield with the Deep Green system, which ‘interweaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify when a plan is going awry and prepare options before they are needed.’ [via IntelFusion]
IBM Heads Into The Clouds, Enterprise Resilience Management Blog – IBM’s distributed server network research and the coming of ‘cloud computing’:
Cloud computing has clearly moved off the drawing board and into the market. In the age of information, cloud computing will fill a niche that was created by the Web. As its benefits become more obvious, other industries may determine they too have a need for a cloud of their own. Cloud computing is unlikely to be the last computing niche that emerges. When computers filling entire rooms were first introduced, people couldn’t imagine that computers would ever prove useful to home users or individual businessmen. As we find ways to use information more effectively, manufacturers will also find ways to improve how that information is delivered.
War of the virtual Wiki-worlds, Alex Beam, Boston Globe – reports on Israel/Palestine tensions in the editorial back end of Wikipedia articles.
Assumption of seamlessness and cellphone boosters, Nicolas Nova at Pasta and Vinegar – people’s expectations of seamless mobile/wireless coverage are fuelling booster installation in low-signal environments.
Also from P&V, Mapping The Emerging Urban Landscape – representing the Hertzian space of the digital city.
Blocking the Transmission of Violence, Alex Kotlowitz in the New York Times – viral transmission of violence, epidemiology, prediction and counter-measures [via Baudrillard's Bastard]
Documents of Note #3, Will at the Insurgency Research Group with a very useful list of new publications.
