Computers from plants we never made. Speculations

Collaborative Analogue Document Use

Paper as a means of communication has never been superseded by the almost ubiquitous electronic media of the workplace. An interview and observational study investigates the use of paper in communication. Speculations are made on how CSCW systems can incorporate these results to facilitate communication and collaboration.

Back to the Future By AL OPPENHEIM

Isaac Asimov once remarked that Bthe secret to being a successful prophet is to never try to predict something that will happen in your own lifetime.[ I hope that at least some of the predictions that I offer in this article are not either too naBve or too fanciful, but in any case, I take some comfort in Asimov’s comment. Looking back at the predictions for 2012 published by the Institute of R...

Global Mapping of Cyber Attacks

Identifying factors behind countries’ weakness to cyber-attacks is an important step towards addressing these weaknesses at the root level. For example, identifying factors why some countries become cybercrime safe heavens can inform policy actions about how to reduce the attractiveness of these countries to cyber-criminals. Currently, however, identifying these factors is mostly based on exper...

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

COMP 9243 — Week 1 ( 17 s 1 )

This certainly is the ideal form of a distributed system, where the “implementation detail” of building a powerful system out of many simpler systems is entirely hidden from the user. Are there any such systems? Unfortunately, when we look at the reality of networked computers, we find that the multiplicity of system components usually shines through the abstractions provided by the operating s...