Tag: 1970s
Backwardation in Bitcoin Futures Contracts
Backwardation in Bitcoin futures contracts shows pro investors lack confidence. The price of Bitcoin futures contracts backed by collateralization of U. government bonds has dropped over the last few weeks, indicating market participants that Treasury debt-like collateral is no longer a viable investment for many. Backwardation, a practice of taking a future’s price at a…
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Quantum Key Distribution – Computer Security
confidence in its security. generation and a public key attack. Vulnerabilities. quantum cryptography can allow a TTP attack to be performed. access this conversation. another in order to begin the conversation. attacker could be able to corrupt QKD key generation. supports both state-dependent and state-independent QKD. QKD without disturbing the state of a system controlled…
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Shufflepuck Café – A Computer Air Hockey Game
A few weeks back we brought you the news that the Atari VCS shuffle mobile games were getting some attention from fans and developers, and that the developers of Aeria were releasing a mobile version of their popular racing game. Now we have the first screenshots of Aeria’s new smartphone game, which are definitely interesting,…
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The History of Military Computer Development by Jeffrey Stroll
This book is one of the most important books on military computers of the twentieth century–the last major wave of effort by the U. military to break open the computer from the inside out. The new wave of military defense computing (and related computer systems) is a highly technical and technologically complicated enterprise, which involves…
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Challenger’s Orbiter-1
Posted March 18, 2012, by David W. When you think of the Fourth of July, which of the following is the most obvious? (You’ve seen fireworks but don’t really know exactly what the fireworks are. The Fireworks. The Space Shuttle, the Space Shuttle, the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle, the Shuttle. The Space Shuttle, the…
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Purdue to Sell WBAA-FM/AM
Purdue announces its decision to sell the World’s Bank and Associates station, the WBAA-FM/AM in Lafayette, Indiana. From the original article: This is a business transaction, not a sale. The station is sold to a new, separate entity. From the original article: Purdue will sell the WBAA-FM/AM and all of its facilities and broadcast licenses…
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Computer and Systems Architecture – Faculty of Engineering
Computer and Systems Architecture – Faculty of Engineering Computer Hardware. The concept of computer hardware is still a very abstract one, as many of the problems that arise in a real world application of hardware are relatively obscure, requiring that only an educated researcher, trained by experience, can really understand the details of the hardware.…
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