Stephen E. Arnold: Warning Notice on IT
Big Data and Enterprise Search: The Caution Lights Are Flashing Easy as 1,2,3 Common Mistakes Made with Data Lakes
Neal Rauhauser: What Is a Blockchain?
The blockchain is a cryptographically secured register. A long, long time ago we used to hook a line printer to important systems and they’d print a subset of their logging to it. An intruder taking over a box could erase the contents of /var/log, but that printout was immutable. The blockchain provides something similar, but …
Gabriele Bammer: Global Research Council Seeks to Focus on Inter-, Multi-, Trans- Cross-, Post-Disciplinary Endeavors
Distinguishing between multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinarity – ‘theological’ hair-splitting or essential categorisation? In a recent special issue of the journal Nature on interdisciplinarity (17 September 2015, p313-315), Rick Rylance . . . introduced a current project of the Global Research Council, which is comprised of the heads of science and engineering funding agencies …
Ayesha Khanna: The Economist Explains Blockchain Systems of Trust Building
The trust machine The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works To understand the power of blockchain systems, and the things they can do, it is important to distinguish between three things that are commonly muddled up, namely the bitcoin currency, the specific blockchain that underpins it and the idea of blockchains in …
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Worth a Look: Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose
Companies, countries, and organizations the world over are waking up to today’s new reality. Women control the lion’s share of purchasing power and are increasingly essential to competitiveness. The age of women’s transformative economic influence has finally arrived, and women are using their power for purpose, redefining what power and success mean in the process. …
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OpenDemocracy: Robert Steele, American Intelligence and National Defense 2.0
American intelligence and national defense 2.0 Robert David Steele 10 November 2015 An Open Source (Technologies) Agency, far removed from the secret intelligence world, would radically reduce wars and illegal immigration, increase trade and shared prosperity, and convert the USA into a “Smart Nation”. On 06/17/11, I wrote the first installment of National intelligence and …
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Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy
Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused …
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