“Resistance is futile”: reading science fiction alongside ubiquitous computing

Resistance is Futile

The Lemonade Game is a three-player game in which players have to pick locations on a circular board, which are as far away as possible from those chosen independently by other players. Players may observe other player’s moves and infer their strategies. The game was studied using a competition of cognitively motivated agents, which inherit properties of adaptivity and stochasticity from human ...

Resistance Is Futile.

New Antibiotics—Resistance Is Futile

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org By next summer, more than 40% of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in the United States will resist both penicillin and erythromycin, according to a recent prediction from the Harvard School of Public Health. The forecast, based on mathematical modeling, was published in the spring of 2003. It’s too early to tell whether that prediction is precisely...

Data is power: resistance is futile.

Le mouvement d'ACQ (amélioration continue de la qualité), avec l'aide d'Intel et de Microsoft, fera de la prochaine décennie l'ère des données. Les départements d'urgence à travers le pays travaillent présentement à mettre sur pied des systèmes de collecte de données pour sur-veiller les profils de gravité des cas des patients, les temps d'attente, les durées de séjours à l'urgence, les habitud...

Glass transition imminent, resistance is futile.

The immense variety of glassy materials around us makes it is easy to get caught up in excessive detail when thinking about the structural glass transition. For decades, there have been only a few attempts to describe covalently bonded, molecular, and metallic glasses on the same footing, so different do the molecular motions seem in these various classes of substances. The article by Angelini ...