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Steve Ballmer Talk at UW March 4, 2010
Posted by Dave Bacon on March 4, 2010 Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington in the Microsoft Atrium of the Computer Science & Engineering department’s Paul Allen Center. As you can tell from that first sentence UW and Microsoft have long had very tight connections. Indeed, perhaps the smartest thing the UW has ever done was, when they…
Help Rod With His Summer Reading
Posted by Dave Bacon on July 29, 2009 Rod Van Meter is in search of some summer reading: I’m feeling the need to recharge my store of ideas, and I have the nagging feeling that my lack of currency in a bunch of fields is causing me to miss some connections I could use in my own research. So, I’m looking for a…
Original McEliece Cracked
Posted by Dave Bacon on October 31, 2008 Shor’s algorithm is an algorithm for quantum computers which allows for efficiently factoring of numbers. This in turn allows Shor’s algorithm to break the RSA public key cryptosystem. Further variations on Shor’s algorithm break a plethora of other public key cryptosystems, including those based on elliptic curves. The McEliece cryptosystem is one of the few…
Graceful Error Handling?
Posted by Dave Bacon on June 19, 2008 Running a process to fix the utf-8 support on scirate.com using the unix “screen” command I got the following crash: Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! – You die… Doh!