Archive for June, 2009

NEW WAYS OF GETTING ON-LINE AND ENDER’S GAME

Posted on June 29, 2009 by

Since almost all of June has been rainy, I decided to begin reading more novels to remind me that we are in summer. I am almost finished with ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card, a fascinating account of a boy drafted into the earth’s future military force to lead a final war against alien invaders. […]

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IS THERE A WAY TO STYMIE IRAN’S DEEP-PACKET SPYING?

Posted on June 23, 2009 by

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reported a disturbing story on it’s front page about how the Iranian government is not just blocking web access, it is engaged in “deep-packet inspection” of it’s citizens computers using technology developed by Siemans, AG and Nokia. Deep-Packet inspection is a form of data-mining in which equipment is installed to examine […]

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BUENO DE MESQUITA–PREDICTIVE GAME THEORY GENIUS OR MATH HERETIC?

Posted on June 16, 2009 by

A 2007 article in Good Magazine written by Michael A.M. Lerner summarized some of the work of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita in mathematically predicting “virtually any international conflict, provided the basic inputs are accurate.” Bueno de Mesquita can also be seen on You Tube giving lectures and his work raise important but thorny issues on […]

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CAN MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION MODELS RELIABLY PREDICT THE WORLD’S FUTURE?

Posted on June 11, 2009 by

Let me tell you how I came to be curious about the issue of model simulations and predictive analysis. First, I am not a statistician. By day, I am an internet media lawyer in a mid-sized law firm in the heart of Boston . Up until now, all the statistics I know came from one […]

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STAR TREK THE FUTURE TELESCOPES TO THE PAST

Posted on June 5, 2009 by

  This is my first blog about the future. Yesterday, I went to see Star Trek and although my expectations were tempered from prior Star Trek films, I came away thinking that this one had a lot to it and a lot that is relevant to this particular point in human history, where all that is past and […]

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