Bróderes in arms

Brothers in arms

War is the father of all things, Heraclitus believed. The military’s demand for better weapons and transportation, as well as tools for communication, detection and surveillance has driven technological progress during the past 150 years or so, producing countless civilian applications as a fallout. The military has invested heavily into high-energy physics, materials science, navigation system...

Brothers in arms.

Small Arms in Kyrgyzstan

in November 2002. Police detained more than 100 protesters who demanded punishment of government officials responsible for the shooting deaths of five civilians in Aksy eight months earlier.

The Arms Race in P2P

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have recently grown in popularity for a variety of applications such as content distribution, streaming multimedia and voice-over IP. P2P networks are built around a decentralized architecture to distribute data in a manner that offers high availability of content, inherent fault-tolerance and efficiency. While P2P networks offer several important advantages over tra...

Inspection Games in Arms Control

An inspection game is a mathematical model of a situation in which an inspector verifies the adherence of an inspectee to some legal obligation, such as an arms control treaty, where the inspectee may have an interest in violating that obligation. The mathematical analysis seeks to determine an optimal inspection scheme, ideally one which will induce legal behavior, under the assumption that th...