The workshop on Open eGovernment is starting right now. Here is my slide deck, for all that might be interested: MIT MediaLabs – Open Identity Archtecture.pdf (1.01 MB) Soon after this is complete, the entire workshop will be posted on…
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As part of the new U.S. administration’s BigDialog and Open Government technology agenda, the CommunityCount web forum is polling for issues that are relevant to the identity management community. If you want to make you voice heard with the transition…
I love foundational discussions – they always have the potential to fundamentally change my world-view, which is quite stimulating. Radovan picked up on my little piece on reputation. In particular he suggests that the question “What attributes should…
Paul proposed a conjecture regarding the validity of using reputation systems in the context of identity systems. This (and some discussion on the IDGang list) inspired me to dig again through some of my notes regarding the ontology of…
GIMPS has released a statement indicating that the 45th and 46th Mersenne primes were recently found at Sun by Tom Duell (right here in Burlington, MA) and Rob Giltrap (Wellington, New Zealand). Both ran on Sparc based systems. Congratulations!…
Amazingly enough, it took less than 24 hours to see the first massive privacy issues flaring up with Google Chrome. In a CNET interview, Peter Eckersley of the EFF says: “We’re worried that Chrome will be another giant conveyer…
Just in time for First Beam, the LHC staff has released a video. It’s geeky, but quite funny: Watch First Beam on September 10 at http://webcast.cern.ch/
No, I am not talking about Google Chrome (yet). But it is related: if you look at it seems that Germany has already conquered Denmark, Benelux, Switzerland, and Austria-Hungary. It could also be a the EUSSR with its capital…
This is just another installment of how the freedom of expression and scientific research is being sacrificed on the altar of “public safety” and “property rights”. From the CNET article: “A federal judge on Saturday granted the Massachusetts transit…
I just laughed out loud: Go King Homer I. of Spain! tags: humor, simpsons