Monthly Archives: September 2007

Embracing Deep Uncertainty

A new book called Blindside will be coming out next week. It’s edited by Francis Fukuyama of “end of history” fame, and is essentially the proceedings of the Blindside conference that was sponsored last year by The American Interest, a quarterly policy journal that Frank co-founded back in 2005. The subtitle of the book (and [...]

Next-Generation Infotech

Dick Van Atta has invited me to give a guest lecture this evening to his graduate seminar on Emerging Technologies and Security at Georgetown University. The presentation, Next Generation Infotech, is basically a meditation on the nature of innovation, using examples from the history and future of computing. Since these are two topics I’ve been [...]

Introducing “Starclouds”

Since this is the very first post in my very first blog, I thought I would start with a few words of introduction.
Me: The full rundown is on the Biography page for anyone who’s interested. But the blurb to the right pretty well sums it up. Way back when, I got my physics Ph.D. [...]

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