Dieses Jahr wäre Alan Turing, der Namensgeber der höchsten Auszeichnung für Informatikforschung, 100 Jahre alt geworden.
Das Vienna Center of Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) nahm sich dieses Jubiläumsjahr zum Anlass, selbst eine Auszeichnung zu vergeben – den Turing Machine Award 2012. Das Ziel dieses Wettbewerbs ist es, Innovationsträgern von morgen die Gelegenheit zu geben, außergewöhnliche Ideen vor Vertretern aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Wirtschaft zu präsentieren. Es werden Projekte gesucht, die den Mechanismus, die Technologie oder die Idee der Turing-Maschine kreativ umsetzen.

Twenty-four years after releasing her debut album, Melissa Etheridge says she's hit her creative stride. "To actually be creating at the peak of my creative abilities is very exciting for me," the 51-year-old rocker, who will release her 12th studio album, 4th Street Feeling, on September 4th, tells Rolling Stone. "This has been my favorite, most enjoyable time in the studio. I believed in myself more in this album than I ever have." The 12-track follow-up to 2010’s Fearless Love was recorded this spring in Los Angeles at HOB Studios with producers Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Norah Jones) and Steve Booker (Duffy), and is highlighted by the country-infused single "Falling Up," which you can now listen to exclusively on RollingStone.com.

Based on your feedback here, similar comments in Design Partner reviews, and some challenges we were having with explaining the whole thing to our extended IBM team, I revised our release strategy.

The new version of Notes/Domino shipping later this year will now be a single Lotus Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4 release. As an administrator, you will be able to configure the code to deploy in the manner in which you intend. If you want it to just be a maintenance release, you won't have to enable the new features. If you want the new stuff including embedded experiences, you'll be able to deploy all of those components. If you want something in-between, that will be an option.

Beyond this release, it will be time to end the confusion. Our next feature release, planned for another 18 months or so past Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4, will definitely increment the first digit. Whether that is a 9 or something funkier, we'll just have to see :-)

The straightforward conclusion to draw from their study, say the researchers, is that we should spend less on defence and more on policing, as Anderson explained: “Some police forces believe the problem is too large to tackle. In fact, a small number of gangs lie behind many incidents and locking them up would be far more effective than telling the public to fit an anti-phishing toolbar or purchase antivirus software. Cybercrooks impose disproportionate costs on society and we have to become more efficient at fighting cybercrime

If you want to work with "big data" without writing code or scripts, you'll want to look into BigSheets. BigSheets is a spreadsheet-style tool for business analysts provided with IBM® InfoSphere® BigInsights, a platform based on the open source Apache Hadoop project. This article teaches you the basics of using BigSheets to analyze social media and structured data collected through sample applications provided with BigInsights. You'll learn how to model this data in BigSheets, manipulate this data using built-in macros and functions, create charts to visualize your work, and export the results of your analysis in one of several popular output formats.

Java™ developers are accustomed to handling errors by throwing and catching exceptions, which doesn't match the functional paradigm. This Functional thinking installment investigates ways to indicate Java errors functionally while still preserving type safety, shows how to wrap checked exceptions with functional returns, and introduces a handy abstraction named Either.

This is the second article of a four part series focusing on the most important aspects of predictive analytics. Part 1 offered a general overview of predictive analytics. This article focuses on predictive modeling techniques, the mathematical algorithms that make up the core of predictive analytics.

In March 2012, version 3.3 of the Linux kernel was released (followed in by version 3.4 in May). In addition to a plethora of small features and bug fixes, several important changes have arrived with these releases, including the merging of the Google Android project; merging of the Open vSwitch; several networking improvements (including the teaming network device); and a variety of file system, memory management, and virtualization updates. Explore many of the important changes in versions 3.3 and 3.4, and have a peek at what's ahead in 3.5.

With IBM® Worklight® V5, a leading Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), IBM expands its overall mobile capabilities across its product portfolio. This series of articles introduces the Worklight platform by showing how you can build mobile applications that leverage a variety of IBM products. Part 1 describes the process of setting up a Worklight development environment and creating a simple application that will be used as the basis for iterative development in subsequent articles.

Working with Linux® doesn't mean your work is restricted to command-line tools. True, most experienced Linux administrators use command-line tools for convenience and more efficient administration. However, the GNOME project provides some excellent tools for managing a Linux server using a graphical user interface (GUI). Using your Microsoft® Windows® background experience, you might find that these tools make the transition less dramatic.

Node.js (Node) is an I/O environment built on top of Google Chrome's JavaScript runtime — essentially, a server-side implementation of JavaScript. Node's asynchronous, event-driven I/O model makes it easy for developers with JavaScript knowledge to build high-performing, scalable, and highly concurrent web applications rapidly and run them in the cloud. This knowledge path starts with Node.js basics and takes you beyond them to using Node and supporting technologies to build an application, test it, and deploy it on a platform-as-a service.

You can’t just morph a federalscientist into a giant invertebrate that catches fire. That’s not an acceptable protocol. And the feds aren’t going to fund you anymore. Not when your boss is a self-flattening radioactive pancake.” In “Loco,” an original science fiction story by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, desperate times call for desperate inventions.

... but, every once in a great while, the devil still opens hell's source repository and looses upon my screen a horror so foul that even one as jaded as myself weeps in bitter despair...

Today Amazon agreed to a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with the U.S. State Department to provide 2,500 Kindle Touches for the government’s overseas language-education programs.

The document released today identifies the State Department’s need for a program that provides “a secure, centrally managed content distribution and management platform to centrally manage an unlimited number of e-reader/tablet devices.” and unfortunately Apple’s iPad falls short of this requirement, according to the State Department.

IT spending in Europe will virtually grind to a halt this year and next due to economic uncertainty over the euro currency, according to a Forrester Research report.

“The most likely result is either near-zero growth or economic recession in 2012, depending on the country,” Forrester analyst and lead report author Andrew Bartels wrote. “The worse case is a possible collapse of the euro and a resulting depression.”

Ray Bradbury's fiction looks set to enter the structure of the internet, after a software developer has proposed a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451.

Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury's writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is denied for legal reasons the user is given the status code 451.

And then came cyberpunk—Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling. It was subversive and gritty, a poetry-kaleidoscope trip into the for-profit future. Faceless corporations loomed over the ant-sized dramas of human endeavors, moving billions of dollars and yen around the globe while the human beings of the story scrapped it out on the streets.

It was cyberspace and console cowboys, leather jackets, Zeiss eye implants, modded Russian knockoff prostheses, extinct horses, mirrorshades. The future was bizarre and threatening—and also strangely real.

The cloud is supposed to be "push button receive bacon", and in practice I have found Office 365 to be anything but.

Microsoft's cloudy email offering does basic email very well. You can buy a licence for a new user with ease, set up an email address for them and connect up your client of choice. A few clicks and email starts flowing; it just works. But it's 2012. At this point, sendmail "just works" too, and it ships with virtually every Linux distribution known to man. You can even download fully operational real-boy mail servers as virtual appliances, put them on VMWare's freebie ESXi, and then build them into a wall. They'll run for the next decade or so without you having to fret about them.

Sendmail, however, has the added bonus of supporting certain highly demanded features like mail merges; Office 365 places severe restrictions (that you cannot control or change) on the amount and frequency of outbound mail. This makes running the corporate newsletter a no-go.

Italien sitzt auf einem riesigen Schuldenberg, und jeder Fünfte hinterzieht Steuern. Die Regierung setzt nun auf das Überwachungsprogramm Serpico, das jedes Bankkonto filzt und jede Ausgabe registriert. Die Finanzkontrolle ist total, der Protest erstaunlich leise.

Ich bin vom Verein "Gegen Pro-Diebstahl" und suche Unterstützer für eine Sammelklage gegen die MA28.
Mir wurde vor einiger Zeit mein Rad gestohlen, die Diebe haben eindeutig deren Verkehrswege genutzt.
Es kann nicht sein, dass die öffentliche Hand ENTGEGEN der Interessen der Bürger die Infrastruktur für KRIMINELLES VERHALTEN schafft und dieses damit MUTWILLIG unterstützt!

Ich vertraue darauf, dass die Gerichte die Verantwortung der MA28 aussprechen und betonen werden, dass meine Interessen angemessen berücksichtigt werden.

Ich habe die MA28 als Musterbeispiel ausgesucht. Das Urteil soll ein Exempel für künftige Rechtsansprüche statuieren. (Asfinag, ÖBB-Infrastruktur, etc.)