Introducing Chris Hibbert and Zocalo
As CommerceNet’s latest hire, and Principal Investigator for a new project (“Zocalo”) within the lab, I wanted to introduce myself to the people who read this blog.
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Prediction Markets at the Conference Board
The newest entry on
[http://cartegic.typepad.com/mapping_strategy/
Mapping Strategy] is a
[http://cartegic.typepad.com/mapping_strategy/2005/02/call_for_speake.html
call for speakers] for a panel on Prediction Markets at the
[http://www.conference-board.org/conferences/conference.cfm?id=800
Conference Board] in NYC in late May.
CodeCon 2005
Several people from CommerceNet attended CodeCon last weekend for varying amounts of time. The Wheat project, which we’ve contributed to, presented on Sunday and got a very good audience reception; Walter Landry of ArX, a variant of the GNU arch revision control system, presented a fascinating table of comparisons between the different free-software decentralized revision-control […]
SHA-1 found vulnerable to collisions
Bruce Schneier says SHA-1 is broken in a preprint paper from the same Chinese research group that broke MD5 and SHA-0 last year, as noted in our blog post at the time. Watch my delicious linklog for more details as they roll in over the next few days. Like the earlier attacks, this is a […]
On Wall Street, “now” means now!
WOW: “The speed of light is too slow.” They noted that firms located further away from the market center were being shut out because the speed of light could not carry their orders to market fast enough…Whether it’s the 7-millisecond delay between Chicago and New York, or the 35-millisecond delay between the Big Apple and […]
University rolls own OpenEAI stack, rev 4.
In a development that reminds me of the Avalanche consortium of corporate open source users, this is an academic effort to avoid the high costs of commercial EAI brokers… Developers at the University of Illinois are working on a major upgrade to their Java-based OpenEAI project, an Open Source alternative to expensive and proprietary ERP/EAI […]
Economist on SimEconomies in Gaming
For many years, game items such as swords or gold have been traded online: virtual objects are sold for real money to the tune of at least $100m a year. … This month, an “Ultima Online” player set up a scheme to let players donate items and currency to raise money for tsunami relief. Currency […]
Smaller clinics can play on the NHII, too
In the health care sector, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as its compliance deadlines phase in, is requiring health care providers to turn to higher-tech operations to store and protect patient data and conduct electronic transactions. Canyonlands Community Health Care, which operates a group of rural clinics in northern Arizona, was […]
CN Board Member Bill Miller founds NanoStellar
Here’s another example of what makes this place so dynamic. Stanford scientist, KJ Cho, developed a great nanotechnology method, but didn’t know how to make a business out of it. He meets a veteran like Bill Miller, who helps him throw a business plan together — and within 18 months, the new company, Nanostellar, has […]
Nick Carr: Does Not Compute
A look at the private sector reveals that software debacles are routine. And the more ambitious the project, the higher the odds of disappointment. It may not be much consolation to taxpayers, but the F.B.I. has a lot of company. Software hell is a very crowded place. Consider Ford Motor Company’s ambitious effort to write […]