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The future of Computing in Ireland

There is hope for the future of computing in Ireland, at CoderDojo Cork I actually found a desk that was more cluttered with the future than my own desk at home.

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The distributed Internet

A posting from Bernie Goldbach Powering the Information Age reminded me about the nature of the Internet. The underlying structure of the Internet is distributed, fault tolerant networking, initially intended to continue operating after a nuclear war. In the current … Continue reading

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Data mining Terrorism

I have been, and will continue to be amused about the Storm over Big Brother database. Amused because I know ultimately that it will fail to stop terrorism, but also that I know how easily such a system can be … Continue reading

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