Fred Hapgood's blog

The Consequences of Trends in Display Prices

Fred Hapgood — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:53:54 -0500

In recent years SF writers have done their best to prepare us for life in interstellar empires, life with voting robots, worlds in which we will live forever.

Biology and Engineering

Fred Hapgood — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:03:29 -0500

Usually engineers feel no special need to imitate nature's solutions to their problems (assuming there are any).

Why we need biological models

Fred Hapgood — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:06:32 -0500

A notable enthusiasm in contemporary software engineering is the idea that the field has a lot to learn from biology.

Has the Ultimate Technology found its Killer App?

Fred Hapgood — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:39:39 -0400

The idea of solving the machine learning conundrum with the techniques of natural selection (an idea called, depending on details, genetic algorithms or GAs, genetic computation, genetic programmin

Biological Networks

Fred Hapgood — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:59:11 -0400

Every CIO feels in their bones that networking management as we know it today is headed over a cliff.

Personal Black Boxes

Fred Hapgood — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:15:06 -0400

One candidate for next trillion dollar market -- a perennially interesting topic -- is the personal black box, a sensing device or group of devices, that perfectly healthy people would wear much or al

Making a Game of Life

Fred Hapgood — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:33:25 -0400

One of the intriguing applications of computers is camouflaging relationships, and I am not thinking here of phishing.

Coming soon: machines with hands

Fred Hapgood — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:07:08 -0400

As sophisticated and versatile as machines are, the genus is severely handicapped by the lack of several critical features. Machines can't talk to us very well.

Cassandra's Law and Synthetic Awareness

Fred Hapgood — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:42:41 -0400

Finding gainful employment for your computer

Fred Hapgood — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:17:24 -0400

A common fantasy -- I'm sure you have had it -- is to make your computer earn real money for you automatically and autonomously. They do so much now; how hard could it be?