Tag: Bell Labs
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After neo-liberalism: back to Bell Labs?
In general I hate the term “neo-liberal” – as in the last decade it has become a fashionable way for some people on the left to say “things I don’t like” whilst giving their (often irrational) personal preferences a patina of intellectual credibility. Glen O’Hara looks at the accusation that the last Labour government was…
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Let us now praise insufficiently famous men: Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon, who was born exactly a century ago, is the reason you are reading this – his work on signal processing lies behind all the communication on the internet. Shannon’s master work was his MSc thesis – the unreachable target which is dangled in front of every computer science masters student. Related articles When…
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Give yourself a Christmas present: learn sed
Text is at the core of The Unix Way – and all True Unix Hackers work from the command line. This much you know. (If you don’t get a copy of The Art of Unix Programming – there is an awful lot of rubbish in that book but it does do one thing well: explain…
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Trying to work out why some people think Kevin Mitnick is a hero
For the last six months I have been spending a fair bit of time in the gym – I am getting older and I need to lose weight and increase fitness. In truth, I quite enjoy it in general, but there are moments when I want to stop just because running on the same spot…
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The Great Alan Turing
Slashdot have a story to the effect that Leonardo DiCaprio is to play Alan Turing in a film that will mark the mathematician’s centenary next year. Great news – the man’s memory deserves nothing more than the actor who has proved himself to be both great and edgy in recent work (he’s certainly not the…
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