Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2003
The Economist leads its print edition this week with the headline The fog of war wherein they talk about how the war’s actual course is being obscured by all the scattershot realtime imagery. Who would have thought that too much information would give us the same kind of confusion in the 21st century that a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2003
I can’t resist linking to this fellow blogger: NedBatchelder.com. Ned Batchelder is, like me, a blogger, a resident of greater Boston, a software developer, named Ned, and the father of an autistic son. Whether or not he was born in North Carolina I cannot say, but his blog is full of useful information. Only yesterday [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2003
I’m back from my France mini-vacation, and as far as I could tell, there was no overt Yankee-bashing going on. I saw one anti-Bush message scrawled on a subway wall but that’s about it. Their news magazines looked like our news magazines, with interested stories and simple headlines like “The War in Iraq” (as opposed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2003
I’m spending a long weekend near Paris, and I can officially say that so far nobody here has given me a hard time about the nasty things the U.S. is doing to Iraq. Not that I’ve been going out of my to get into political conversations… The trip over was very uneventful. I didn’t notice [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2003
DigitalGlobe is a company that will sell you extremely detailed satellite images (they claim 60 cm resolution) of anywhere in the world. To prove they’ve got the goods, they have a nifty gallery on their website that features, among the various famous touristic locations, some photos of North Korea and Iraq. Here is a shot [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2003
Hooray for modern US technology and its ability to knock out bad guys science-fiction style. I sleep better knowing that all that tasty tech gear is on our side. Recently, though, I read a New York Times article that simultaneously pleased and disturbed me: Military Now Often Enlists Commercial Technology. The gist of it is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2003
I noticed recently that somebody got to this site because of a Google search on the phrase “best joke ever.” The reason the search found me is that I had blogged a story about some humor research in the U.K. (sorry, humour research) and I used that phrase. Still, I was pleased Google came to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2003
There is a distinguished history of abstruse higher mathematics becoming suddenly practical without warning, the protestations of pure mathematicians like G.H. Hardy notwithstanding. Factoring large prime numbers, for example, is critically important to secure encryption, while multidimensional sphere-packing generates crucial insights into data compression. Now knot theory is popping up in an unlikely place: creating [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2003
The Red Herring is no longer. As one of the hot Silicon Valley magazines that covered the New Economy and rode the wave of prosperity, it is joining Upside and The Industry Standard in the dead pool. Read about it here on SFGate: Red Herring sinks / Business magazine unable to secure enough ads. It’s [...]
