Simulation: the weblog


Wednesday Jul 7, 2010

The London Psychogeophysics Summit

Furtherfield gallery are hosting the London Psychogeophysics Summit in August.

Posted on Jul 07, 10 | 8:36 am |

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US cyber-security coordination

Cryptome links to a US GAO report on Cybersecurity, listing 'key challenges' in research and development.

Posted on Jul 07, 10 | 8:21 am |

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Tuesday Jun 29, 2010

Another simulation of everything

Interesting blog by Gobion Rowlands about the FuturICT proposal for "a techno-socio-economic-ecological knowledge accelerator Global-Scale Simulation of Socio-Economic-Environmental Systems?"

Posted on Jun 29, 10 | 8:51 am |

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Sunday Jun 6, 2010

What happened to Second Life?

A posting in Second Life, a Second Chance? blog helps me understand why I seem to hear so much less about SL these days.

Posted on Jun 06, 10 | 9:50 am |

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Simulations of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: a study in comparative openness.

The official US govenrment site contains excellent documentation of sightings and a list of sofgtware tools including:
- GNOME:, the "General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) is the oil spill trajectory model used by OR&R Emergency Response Division (ERD) responders during an oil spill.".

Posted on Jun 06, 10 | 8:15 am |

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Wednesday Jun 2, 2010

The end of NLEs?

Homeland Security Watch has a post asking 'Does the nation need a national level exercise programme'?

Posted on Jun 02, 10 | 9:20 am |

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Tuesday Jun 1, 2010

Gunman in hospital, again....

Great story in the Las Vegas Sun - a hospital used an armed man to simulate a terrorist attack, but forgot to tell staff this was an exercise.

Posted on Jun 01, 10 | 4:55 pm |

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Monday May 31, 2010

Liturgical east

My vicar recently introduced me to the concept of 'liturgical east': a kind of simulation for spiritual purposes. The underlying tradition, that geography has spiritual dimensions, needs to be revisited.

Posted on May 31, 10 | 12:57 pm |

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Sunday May 16, 2010

Excellent new book on CodeIgniter

Packt have just sent me a review copy of CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development by Adam Griffiths. An excellent book, at a more advanced level than mine, and I am learning a lot from it.

Posted on May 16, 10 | 9:20 am |

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Saturday May 8, 2010

Chinese vs US cyber-war capability

Thanks to Tenable also for a refernce to a paper on ""Capability of the People’s Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation" prepared for the US Government by Northrop Grumman.

Posted on May 08, 10 | 7:47 am |

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