Friday, March 2, 2012

Cory Doctorow: What's Inside the Box - Locus Online


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Cory Doctorow: What's Inside the Box
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Computer science has long wrestled with the question of how anyone can know what a computer or the programs running on it are doing. The Halting Problem described by Alan Turing in 1936 tells us that in complex cases, it's impossible to predict what a ...