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Browsing all posts from November, 2010.

Van’s back: Net king ready to save the interwebs – again

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Van Jacobson first saved the internet just as it was taking off in the 1980s and began suffering a series of crippling outages. His answer: an algorithm added to TCP/IP that made possible the kind of scale Google, Facebook and millions of others today take for granted. Twenty years later this early network pioneer’s got [...]

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Shut up, Spock! – how Battlestar Galactica beat Trek babble

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No guns firing beams of light. No photon torpedoes. And, sorry, no aliens. When Battlestar Galactica delivered the science part of “sci-fi” it was more mind-blowing – and realistic – than anything that had gone before. I talk to the show’s science adviser Kevin Grazier as his book – The Science of Battlestar Galactica – [...]

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