D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944 →
“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom. . . . Many thousands of men have died for such ideals as these. . . but these young boys. . . were cut off in their prime. . . I devoutly hope that we will never again have to see such scenes as these. I think and hope, and pray, that humanity will have learned. . . we must find some way . . . to gain an eternal peace for this world.” – via Carlo D’Este - Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life (ISBN-10: 0805056874)
The Allies That Landed On The Normandy Beaches That Day In Defense of Freedom: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Free France, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Poland.
The End of Humanity, AI Style: Or How I Learned to Admire RAND →
Edward Geist, Andrew J. Lohn, writing at the RAND Corporation, have crafted a fascinating report targeting the potential for Artifical Intelligence to increase the already signifcant possibily of thermonuclear warfare (otherwise known as into-the-frying-pan-with-no-oil)... Today's Toasty MustRead!
Simple.Concise.On-Target
What more do you want (or need, for that matter), in an astute and equally important - truthful - examination of what makes those pesky Rooskies tick. In this case, personified by that old KGB spymaster Putin. Today's Must Read.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
DARPA Opens Up SDR Hackfest →
Outstanding news via DARPA's Outreach Coordinator, detailing the upcoming DARPA SDR Hackfest. The key acronym here is SDR, which represents Software Defined Radio. DARPA has published a Special Notice (DARPA-SN-17-40) on FBO.gov with information about the workshop/hackfest along with registration information. Enjoy
"Throughout May — as a buildup to a final event in November, the DARPA Bay Area Hackfest — Rondeau will continue his roadshow, which will include hyperlocal visits to small hacker and maker spaces as well as high-profile keynote addresses to the SDR community. On May 9, 10, 11, and 12, respectively, he will visit maker and hacker spaces in Niwot, Colorado; Vista, California; Austin, Texas; and Santa Clara, California." - via DARPA
Algorithm of War
In superbly crafted reportage published at The New York Times, Pam Belluck tells us of the efforts of a physicist at the University of Miami's Center for Computational Science, if you wil - Neil Jophnson, Ph.D., to predict - with algorithmical efficiency - the next move by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Read the study, and marvel at the power of mathematics.
