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RGB Colors, Math And Generative Art (An Educational Romp)
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2013
My older son asked me yesterday about how colors on the screen work. We started talking about the history of the RGB color model including early color screen technology. That eventually led to a discussion of how the RGB color [...] Read more
Leistungsschutzrecht (Germany’s Google Tax)
Albert Wenger – Mar 1, 2013
Germany’s parliament today passed the highly controversial “Leistungsschutzrecht” which is an ancillary copyright that requires payment for excerpting from and linking to content in some instances. When I walked around in a slight daze at Chicago O'Hare this morning after [...] Read more
A Further Step on the Road towards a Spy-vs-Spy Society
Albert Wenger – Feb 28, 2013
On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court rejected the ACLU’s challenge to warrantless wiretapping. That leaves the EFF’s lawsuit as the last one still standing. The argument made by the majority of justices for dismissing the ACLU challenge was that the [...] Read more
IPv6 Is Really Coming
Albert Wenger – Feb 27, 2013
The IPv6 standard was first published in 1998 which is now 15 years ago. For a while it looked like adoption would drag on forever resulting in some anguished discussions. But by about 2011 IPv6 started to develop real momentum [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Third Survey Says!
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2013
Last week on Tech Tuesday I ran the third reader survey to determine what to write about next. I offered up three possible topic areas that I had mentioned previously: lower level programming, theory of computer science and neural networks/machine [...] Read more
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty (with a Cameo by Sheryl Sandberg)
Albert Wenger – Feb 25, 2013
I started writing this review last night with the Oscars still going on, having seen Zero Dark Thirty the night before (I will have some separate comments on other Oscar choices). I went to see it despite having some trepidation [...] Read more
Costly Communications (Thesis)
Albert Wenger – Feb 22, 2013
I am finally getting around to writing about the third paper in my MIT PhD thesis. The first paper was an empirical analysis of the impact of information technology on firm size. The second paper provided a model for how [...] Read more
Google Glass
Albert Wenger – Feb 21, 2013
Despite my sarcastic tweet from last night, I am actually intrigued by Google Glass (and I even believe that Google Plus will matter as Google is all in). First, as Fred pointed out yesterday, Google’s machine learning capabilities are a [...] Read more
More Thoughts on Cyber Security
Albert Wenger – Feb 20, 2013
It has been interesting to follow the recent spate of attacks on the systems of large companies including Apple and Facebook. The latest theory is that employees of the companies visited a site that used a zero-day Java exploit to [...] Read more