Without Notes October 09 {PersonalInformationStream}

• Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent?, NOW on PBS, September 2009
• Le corps devient-il bionique ?, Science publique, France Culture 2009
  • dialog on Augmented Reality at about 30min
• Social Zombies (Your Friends want to Eat your Brains), Defcon 17 August 2009
  • Social Media Security Exposing the insecurities of social media
  • GNUCitizen "an Information Security Think Tank which exists to advance public understanding of offensive and defensive information security technologies, to educate and share information with its members and the public on best practicegs, tools and techniques for such coverage and to represent the interests of its members."
• Richard Dawkins interviews Wendy Wright from The Genius of Charles Darwin
• Do I Drink Too Much?, John Marsden, BBC Horizon 2009
• FRONTLINE: Obama's War, PBS October 2009
• Philosophie : Identité avec Raphaël Enthoven et son invite Elise Marrou, Arte 2009
  • moved to Person.Person
• Philosophie : Image avec Raphaël Enthoven et son invite Klaus Speidel, Arte 2009
  • shared with Lea
• Philosophie : Langage avec Raphaël Enthoven et son invite Philippe Schlenker, Arte 2009
  • moved to ReadingNotes.ThePrehistoryOfLanguage
• The Life and Death of a Mobile Phone, BBC October 2009
• Que lisent les Chinois?, Arte October 2009
• L'histoire du CNRS, La Marche des Sciences, France Culture October 2009
• Let's Make Money by Erwin Wagenhofer, 2008
• Hadopi, Création & Internet : répression ou création ?, Aligre FM October 2009
• Next Decade Technologies: Tim Berners-Lee, Technology Academy Foundation August 2009
  • Data.gov searchable data catalogs providing access to data in three ways: through
    • the "raw" data catalog,
    • the tool catalog and
    • the geodata catalog.
  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Entrepreneurism, Begin With The End In Mind: Jon Fisher, The Commonwealth Club of California, June 2009
• David Cameron in Conversation with Nassim Taleb, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, August 2009
  • FooledByRandomness.com Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page
  • moved to Content.FinancialTools
• Peter Wothers: Just Add Water, Australian National University, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 2009
  • moved to ReadingNotes.ElegantSolutions#Chapter2
• The Illusion Of Complexity - Neuroactivity And Complex Behaviour October 2009
  • see also StigmergyLive
• The Status of the P Versus NP Problem by Lance Fortnow, Communications of the ACM September 2009
  • History of combinatorics - Wikipedia
  • Binomial coefficient(s) "are of importance in combinatorics, because they provide ready formulas for certain frequent counting problems" - Wikipedia
  • Computational hardness assumption in my Newconcepts page
  • Operations Resarch Open Access Books by IN-TECH
  • see also my reading notes on Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd
  • Cook–Levin theorem "states that the Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete." on Wikipedia
  • see also my reading notes on The Code Book / Histoire des codes secrets by Simon Singh
  • Computational Complexity Computational complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science as viewed by Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch.
• Beyond Computation by Michael Sipser, MIT, Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) Video Catalogue, October 2006
  • Kurt Gödel and John von Neumann 1956 letter at Princeton, Computational Complexity 2006
• The Chicago Sessions, Marije Meerman, backlight, VPRO October 2009
• Brazil: Hired Guns by Siri Schubert, FRONTLINE/WORLD PBS September 2009
• Comment soigner la souffrance psychique ?, Le Téléphone Sonne, France Inter, October 2009
  • research in brain imaging shows that psychological pain actives overlapping areas with physical pain activations
    • thus dismantling the (Cartesian) bias from the brain/mind dichotomy, re-inforcing the "information is physical" principle dear to Rolf Landauer
      • see also my reading notes on Programming The Universe by Seth Lyod
• Jean-Charles Massera et Jean-Pierre Vincent, l'humeur vagabonde, France Inter October 2009
  • United emmerdements of New Order précédé de United problems of coût de la main d'oeuvre, Jean-Charles Massera, P.O.L Editeur 2002
  • 7min reading vidéo by Jean-Charles Massera
• The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Return 2004
  • moved to my ReadingNotes.QuantitativeTrading
• Géographies de New-York, Planete Terre, France Culture October 2009
• L’Homme et la consommation de la viande: sociologie, biologie, religion et préhistoire, Le salon noir, France Culture October 2009
  • An Edible History of Humanity: Tom Standage, FORA.tv, June 2009
• Colossus: The Forbin Project directed by Joseph Sargent, 2007
• Horizon, 2009-2010, The Secret You with Marcus du Sautoy, BBC October 2009
  • moved to ReadingNotes.StrangeLoop
• FRONTLINE: The Warning, PBS October 2009
• Paul Buchheit on Applied Philosophy (aka “Hacking”), Cyberpunk Review October 2009
  • moved to ReadingNotes.ProgrammingForPeace
  • The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, Wikipedia
• L’univers est-il mathématique ?, Science Publique, France Culture 2008
  • shared with Gwenael
  • moved to ReadingNotes.ProgrammingTheUniverse
• Pi - Faith in Chaos directed by Darren Aronofsky, 1998
• Développements actuels en spintronique by Albert Fert, Séminaire général du Département de physique, ENS October 2009
  • Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) a non-volatile computer memory (NVRAM) according to Wikipedia
  • Spin Transfer Switching will lead to higher density MRAMs according to Wikipedia
• Vers une politique de l'imagination, La fabrique de l'humain, France Culture October 2009
• Alfred Nobel : l’inventeur oublié ?, La marche des sciences, France Culture October 2009
• Web 10.0 by Kevin Kelly, Web 2.0 Summit 2008
• Dispatches . iWitness . Peru: Kiva's Web-based Microfinance Growing Up bY Joe Rubin, FRONTLINE/WORLD PBS October 2009
• Intelligence Explained by Emily Singer, Technology Review November/December 2009
  • Richard Haier explain how brain imaging is shedding light on intelligence
  • biomedical editor Emily Singer’s brain
  • my shifts on it
• The Automation of Science (preprint pdf, before final corrections),Aberystwyth University April 2009
  • "Use of a Robot Scientist enables all aspects of a scientific investigation to be formalised in logic. [...] This paper may be considered as simply the human-friendly summary of the formalisation." (p4)
  • "we plan to automatically publish the logical descriptions of automated experiments" (p5)
  • "The greatest research challenge will be to improve the scientific intelligence of the software. We have shown that a simple form of hypothesis-led discovery can be automated, but what remains to be determined are the limits of automation" (p5)
  • Automating Science by Ross D. King during Third International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MSLB'09)
  • Robot Scientist by the Computational Biology research group at Aberystwyth University
  • Scientific Discovery by Bruce Buchanan, AAAI.org wiki
• L'énaction comme métaphore pour l'intelligence artificielle ? Vers la co-évolution par la réalité virtuelle by De Loor P, Manach K et Tisseau J.
  • draft from may 2008
  • Enaction-Based Artificial Intelligence : Toward co-evolution with humans in the loop, Minds and Machines Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, October 2009
  • white papers from euCognition 2006-2008 with its research roadmap mentioned in the paper
    • EUCog European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics
  • W. Ross Ashby : Feedback, Adaptation and Stability (1960)
    • Adaptation as Stability : Homeostasis
      • Homeostasis "Typically used to refer to a living organism, the concept came from that of milieu interieur that was created by Claude Bernard and published in 1865." according to Wikipedia
      • see also my notes on ReadingNotes.TheThingsWeDo
    • The ultrastable system
• War is a Racket by Smedley Butler March 2009
  • War Is a Racket according to Wikipedia
• Cloud Superintelligence by Anders Sandberg at Human Nature - Ars Electronica Festival 2009 September 2009
  • my notion of Cognitive Scalability
  • Stigmergy on Wikipedia
• Philosophie : L'intime avec Raphaël Enthoven et son invité Michaël Foessel, Arte 2009
• Anti-Americanism vs. American Ignorance, World Affairs Council: Washington DC, June 2009
• A pocket-sized ecosystem, ESA October 2009
  • moved to Content.Projetautonomieenergetique
• The Largest Black Holes in the Universe, SpaceRip September 2009
• Philosophie : La religion avec Raphaël Enthoven et son invite Antoine Fleyfel, Arte November 2009
  • moved to AutoDebate.ReligionVsScience
• The Wizard of Data Art, Aaron Koblin from Google Creative Labs, CaT 2009
• Dispatches - What's in Your Breakfast?, Channel 4 October 2009
• New Research Landscapes: New Tools for Driving Success, UTAS/Elsevier October 2009
• Paul Steinhardt, Authors@Google 2007
  • video at 44min20
  • Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, 2007
  • Paul J. Steinhardt Director, Center for Theoretical Science & Professor of Physics at Princeton University
    • FAQs (and criticisms) concerning the Cyclic Universe Model
  • A Cyclic Model of the Universe by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, 2002
  • The Cyclic Model Simplified by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, 2004
  • Turnaround in Cyclic Cosmology by Lauris Baum and Paul H. Frampton, 2006
• Paul Ricoeur et Jean-Pierre Changeux, dialogue ou duel ?, Canal Academie October 2009
• Computers with Commonsense: Artificial Intelligence at the MIT Round Table by Patrick Henry Winston, MIT World June 2009
• WikiSym 2009 Closing Session, October 2009
  • Closed the conference
  • people's opinions
  • announced WikiSym 2010
• Larry Smarr - Supercomputing and the Human Brain, Singularity University Summer 2009
  • The Social Superorganism and its Global Brain, Principia Cybernetica, created in 1996, lastly updated in 2000
• Vint Cerf - The Internet Today, Singularity University Summer 2009
• Bob Metcalfe discusses the Enernet Singularity University Summer 2009
• Human Cloning, Science Channel 2009

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