The issues
pages contain the issues for this week and
past weeks plus some provided by me for future weeks.
Table showing who has volunteered for what so far.
Links to relevant material online.
Some webbed papers from previous years.
My office is Bergin 204; office hours Tuesday
12-1, 3:00-3:45 and by arrangement.
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Are genetically engineered crops killing the bees?
See here
and here.
Alcohol, smoking, ecstasy--which is worse?
Mindreading
by machine--or at least the first step. Perhaps.
A story
of large scale online fraud, stamp collecting, open source crime
detection, imperfect private and nonexistent public enforcement.
Quantum computing may be here. And
it might turn
chemistry into physics.
Face to Face anonymity? JF points to information on face animation.
We already have a distributed surveillance network,
and NYC
plans to use it: Cell phones
The Surveillance Camera Players, a performance troupe
For life in the transparent society - Privacy
Sweatshirts
Audio
of lecture on anonymity and privacy
Someone broke into your computers and downloaded
your customer data: Now
what do you do?
Tax and
Finance in Virtual Worlds, courtesy of NYU
Fun stuff from the
ABA and the Department of Homeland Security
IBM's Virtual
Invisibility Cloak: Identity Mixer promises to keep your online
presence anonymous.
JF has put up his
own page for additional issues. Among other things.
Spy
Coins: The Transparent Society in your pocket. Maybe.
VR glasses are getting better, but the latest version still
has fewer pixels than my smart phone.
Genetic engineering may in time let parents redesign
their children before birth. It is already
possible, but controversial, to do it after birth.
If you would like to browse the web without being watched by either the FBI or the RIAA, you might want to take a look at netshade.
"Integrated System for Emotional State Recognition for the Enhancement of Human Performance and Detection of Criminal Intent" is not a science fiction story. It's a DARPA request for research. Search for "Emotional State" twice to find it in the (long) document.
The issue of manipulation
of digital evidence is showing up in real
cases.
The RIAA as a promoter of strong privacy? An interesting essay.
What do Open Source and the Dean campaign have in common? Fortune thinks they are models for the new Bottom-Up economy.
Virtual Reality makes it to Mars--with a little help from Java.
Bell labs thinks it has a solution to the problem of identity/anonymity in the world of cell phones--a way of letting the user decide who gets to know where he is.
You can no longer reach Jesus on your cell phone. At least not in Finland.
A Secret war. Is your computer spying on you--the Spyware arms race.
Attack
of the mad worm--ATM's bite the dust. "I
have twenty-two bucks in my pocket and 14 people coming over to eat
chili, drink beer and watch the Superbowl tomorrow," Manhattan
resident Gail Pastore fumed, after finding out she wouldn't be able
to make a withdrawal. "It's not going to be a good weekend."
How not to buy a car online.
Lee Silver is already obsolete. It appears that a new technology will make it possible for two women to produce a child entirely from their own genetic material.
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