July 2007 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Joel Muller 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

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11 Jul '07

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hi from janice
by janice 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

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Want to be a computer scientist? Forget maths
by R.A. Hettinga 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

<http://www.itwire.com.au/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13339&p…> iTWire - Want to be a computer scientist? Forget maths By Stuart Corner Thursday, 05 July 2007 A new book seeks to demolish the concept that computer science is rooted in mathematics and, in particular that the notion of the algorithm is fundamental to computer science. In particular, he says the notion of the algorithm, "has been largely ineffective as a paradigm for computer science." Fant argues that, because mathematicians, notably John Von Neumann and Alan Turing, were intimately involved with the early development of digital electronic computers in the 1940s they transplanted a mathematical model of computation, including the algorithm - commonly understood to be an exact prescription, defining a computational process, leading from various initial data to the desired result - into the fledgling science of computers. He claims that "What is essentially a discipline of pure mathematics has come to be called "the theory of computer science," and "the notion of the algorithm has been decreed to be a fundamental paradigm of computer science" However, he says this mathematical perspective "is the wrong point of view" and is asking the wrong questions. "Mathematicians and computer scientists are pursuing fundamentally different aims, and the mathematician's tools are not as appropriate as was once supposed to the questions of the computer scientist. The primary questions of computer science are not of computational possibilities but of expressional possibilities. Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression." This concept of 'process expression' is, he says, a common thread running through the various disciplines of computer science. "A logic circuit is an expression of a logical process; an architecture is an expression of a continuously acting process to interpret symbolically expressed processes; a program is a symbolic expression of a process; a programming language is an environment within which to create symbolic process expression; a compiler is an expression of a process that translates between symbolic process expressions in different languages; an operating system is an expression of a process that manages the interpretation of other process expressions; any application is an expression of the application process." And, he argues, important process expressions do not qualify as algorithms. "A logic circuit is not a sequence of operations. An operating system is not supposed to terminate, nor does it yield a singular solution. An operating system cannot be deterministic because it must relate to uncoordinated inputs from the outside world. Any program utilising random input to carry out its process, such...is not an algorithm." "The notion of the algorithm," he concludes "simply does not provide conceptual enlightenment for the questions that most computer scientists are concerned with." Fant is the founder and CEO of Theseus Research, a consulting firm specialising in the design and implementation of real-time image processing systems as well as ongoing research into the theory of computers. "Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression" is published by John Wiley. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Sex can be one of the most enjoyable parts of your life.
by Terri Fritz 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

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Military files left unprotected online (Randall via Dave Farber's IP)
by dewayne＠warpspeed.com 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

[Note: This item comes from reader Randall. DLH]

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Military files left unprotected online (Randall via Dave Farber's IP)
by dewayne＠warpspeed.com 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

[Note: This item comes from reader Randall. DLH]

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Olny this 5 days special price on pharma for you dear customer
by Edgar Crum 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Our Warmest Helloes!!! Incomparable offer for you Our Dear Clients!!! During these 5 days only for our byers incredible offer!!! On all pharma you want!!! Fill in your life with colours of festivity!!! http://climbfoot.hk/ Truly Yours, Online association of pharmaceutical chemists

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[Politech] DEA key logger used to eavesdrop in real time on alleged drug manufacturers [priv]
by Eugen Leitl 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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Face recognition flop (via Dave Farber's IP)
by Christian Kuhtz 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Apparently the BKA (German equivalent of the FBI) tested face recognition, spent 200K euros to test the system in a rail terminal in the city of Mainz and basically declared it worthless in terms of being an investigative tool. Apparently (per the article) this is the first public trial under normal, every day conditions (rather than having the conditions manipulated for a good showing) and only matched 30%. Even when the lighting was modified to be ideal, it only reached 60%. The BKA considers the system only useful if the success rate is very near 100%. The sample size was approximately 23,000 travelers per day over a period of roughly 3 months. The targets were 200 commuters who had volunteered for the trial and travel through this rail terminal at least once per day. BKA recommended that this is not a suitable system for surveillance and facial recognition to try to match suspects in a manhunt etc. The article is in German; try your favorite mechanized translator. If there's enough demand, I happen to be bilingual and may be convinced into doing a translation in my spare time. ;-) http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,493911,00.html Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ ------------------------------

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