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Friday, 20 January 2012

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.

Title	Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
Author	TED Conferences
Published	July 21, 2011 3:48 PM
Language	English
Country	United States
Owner	TED Conferences
File	49.88 mb

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Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Internet routing: Safe passage | The Economist

Implications of how data moves around the Internet.

Sunday, 2 October 2011

VIDEO: Young people 'over-reliant on internet'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-15118751

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Friday, 30 September 2011

Egg Freckles | Faq

Interesting design for a website based on the apple newton.

Useful as inspiration for web design/multimedia design.

Saturday, 24 September 2011

BBC News - Webscape: How CVs are evolving

unit 1 life in the info age

Thursday, 15 September 2011

News.me | What a Band Really Makes from Streaming Sales

What a Band Really Makes from Streaming Sales

UK band Uniform Motion recently released their third album, One Frame Per Second . Here, they break down exactly how much of that sweet streaming money pie is left over for the musicians—and it's even less than you think: Our new record was 'officially' released today. This means that you'll find the digital version...

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View full story at http://gizmodo.com/5840580/what-a-band-really-makes-from-streaming-sales

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Sunday, 11 September 2011

Article: Home Improvement Store, Lowe’s, Deploying 42,000 iPhones

Home Improvement Store, Lowe's, Deploying 42,000 iPhones
http://www.macstories.net/news/home-improvement-store-lowes-deploying-42000-iphones/

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Thursday, 1 September 2011

Article: Student Ryan Kessler Transformed His Workflow, Raised His GPA and Left His Textbooks at Home (Back-to-School Series)

Student Ryan Kessler Transformed His Workflow, Raised His GPA and Left His Textbooks at Home (Back-to-School Series)
http://blog.evernote.com/2011/09/01/student-ryan-kessler-transformed-his-workflow-raised-his-gpa-and-left-his-textbooks-at-home-back-to-school-series/

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Mr M Highmore

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Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Article: One in five Britons feel unsafe when online

One in five Britons feel unsafe when online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/31/britons-feel-unsafe-online

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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Article: Apple’s iPad Replacing Cash Registers at Major Retailers

Apple's iPad Replacing Cash Registers at Major Retailers
http://www.cultofmac.com/apples-ipad-replacing-cash-registers-at-major-retailers/109933

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Mr M Highmore

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Wednesday, 3 August 2011

NHS database: Digital disaster unit 8 project management

NHS database: Digital disaster
3 Aug 2011 20:23:20

A project that was supposed to transform patient care in England has achieved little except enrich IT consultants and waste billions
The figures speak for themselves. This week's public accounts committee (PAC) report on the NHS national computer system uses moderate language, but ought to cause outrage. It underlines the calamity of a project that was supposed to transform patient care in England but which has instead achieved little except enrich IT consultants and waste billions.

The scheme was launched in 2002, with a budget of £11.4bn, of which £6.4bn has already been spent. "The possibilities are enormous if we can get this right," Tony Blair promised at the start, overlooking the possibility of getting it wrong. The aim was to replace paper medical records with a centralised national electronic database, allowing a patient from Hull to walk into a hospital in Hereford and find all their details ready at the click of a mouse.

It never happened. The scheme quickly degraded into a mass of regional and incompatible systems, provided by two companies, BT and Computer Sciences Corporation , who have been paid about £1.8bn. Neither has been able to deliver even the reduced capability specified in their contracts. BT is being paid £9m to install systems at each NHS site, although other parts of the NHS outside the national programme are paying the same company only £2m for the same systems. For once the cliche is true. The PAC report really is a catalogue of disaster.

There are lessons in the report for all policymakers. As the failure of the NHS private finance scheme has also shown, the government is an inept purchaser of private services: indecisive, ponderous, overambitious and wasteful. Mass centralisation does not reduce costs, but it kills flexibility. Under the national scheme, NHS professionals were given expensive systems with little discussion of what would actually help them do their jobs. The project was carried along by the momentum of its scale and the sense that having spent so much it would be wrong to pull out (pressures that have also wrecked the defence budget, as a report from the defence select committee reminded people on Wednesday).

Most of all, though, the PAC report challenges the current government. The problem began under Labour but it has continued under the coalition. The committee suggests that £4.3bn might be better spent elsewhere and that perhaps the programme should be scrapped. It also warns that the planned NHS reorganisation will only make things worse, since it proposes abolishing the organisations currently managing the programme. Past failure, current failure and future failure: a warning for all governments that big ambitions and bigger budgets do not automatically deliver big success.

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