Wired 12.01: Broken Machine Politics Introducing the UserFriendly, Error-Free, Tamper-Proof Voting machine of theFuture! (WARNING Satisfaction not guaranteed if used before 2006.) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/evote.html
Extractions: Introducing the User-Friendly, Error-Free, Tamper-Proof Voting Machine of the Future! (WARNING: Satisfaction not guaranteed if used before 2006.) By Paul O'Donnell On a cool afternoon last February, five politicians gathered in the heart of Silicon Valley for a meeting of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Their task: to replace the county's antiquated punch card voting system with $20 million worth of touchscreen computers. Executives and lobbyists from three different voting-tech vendors were scheduled to present their wares, but the outcome was practically predetermined. Supervisors on the board's finance committee had already anointed a winner: Sequoia Voting Systems, based 35 miles north in Oakland. It was all over but the voting. Voting, they explained, is too important to leave up to computers - at least, these types of computers. They're vulnerable to malfunction and mischief that could go undetected. Where they'd already been adopted, the devices - known in the industry as DREs, short for direct recording electronic - had experienced glitches that could have called into question entire elections. And they keep no paper record, no backup. "We said, 'Slow down. You've got a problem,'" recalls Neumann. It felt odd - computer scientists inveighing against their own technology in the tone of geniuses lecturing undergraduates. They had been lobbying for months, and now "it was like they were making a last stand at Santa Clara," says one person who was at the meeting. The supervisors listened politely. "But the board didn't seem to see what it had to do with anything," says Liz Kniss, a supervisor who shared the concerns raised by the scientists.
Extractions: Edited by the Subcontractingtalk Editorial Team on 28 November 2003 Salford based J.W. Entwhistle Co is probably the oldest manufacturing Company in the Manchester area and is a long time user of Jorns Bending Machines from Switzerland, which they have operated for over 20 years to make roofing and building products. The Company has been in existence since the late 19th century and is to-day still located on the exact same sight. Since they were founded, their business has changed considerably, because in the beginning they were not only manufacturing steel mesh products for local industry, they were also involved in sealing embalmed bodies into steel coffins for shipping to the far corners of the Empire. As Chris Dunkley, Entwhistle's Manager said: "At the time HM Customs and Excise were closely involved and oversaw the sealing of every coffin.
Interactive Proof System - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia an interactive proof system is an abstract machine that models In thissystem, the verifier is a deterministic, polynomialtime machine (a P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system
Extractions: In computational complexity theory , an interactive proof system is an abstract machine that models computation as the exchange of messages between two parties. The parties, the verifier and the prover, interact by exchanging messages in order to ascertain whether a given string belongs to a language or not. The prover is all-powerful, with unlimited computational resources while the verifier has bounded computation power. Messages are sent between the verifier and prover until the verifier has an answer to the problem and has "convinced" itself that it is correct. All interactive proof systems have two requirements: Notice that we don't care what happens if the verifier is dishonest; we trust the verifier.
Lecture 23 - Approximation Algorithms And Cook's Theorem Suppose we buy a guessing module peripherial for our Turing machine, The proofof Cook s Theorem, while quite clever, was certainly difficult and http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/lectures-good/node23.html
Extractions: Next: Index Up: No Title Previous: Lecture 22 - techniques Listen To Part 26-1 36.5-5 Prove that Hamiltonian Path is NP -complete. This is not a special case of Hamiltonian cycle! ( G may have a HP but not cycle) The easiest argument says that G contains a HP but no HC iff ( x y ) in G such that adding edge ( x y ) to G causes to have a HC, so calls to a HC function solves HP. The cleanest proof modifies the VC and HC reduction from the book: Listen To Part 27-3 Approximating Vertex Cover As we have seen, finding the minimum vertex cover is NP -complete. However, a very simple strategy (heuristic) can get us a cover at most twice that of the optimal. While the graph has edges pick an arbitrary edge v u add both u and v to the cover delete all edges incident on either u and v If the graph is represented by an adjacency list this can be implemented in O m n ) time. This heuristic must always produce cover, since an edge is only deleted when it is adjacent to a cover vertex. Further, any cover uses at least half as many vertices as the greedy cover.
15-859(A) Machine Learning Theory, Spring 2004 Use as proof of Hoeffding bounds. 02/17 Learning from noisy data. SQ model intro . Avrim Blum, OnLine Algorithms in machine Learning (a survey). http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/ML04/
Extractions: Course description: This course will focus on theoretical aspects of machine learning. We will examine questions such as: What kinds of guarantees can one prove about learning algorithms? What are good algorithms for achieving certain types of goals? Can we devise models that are both amenable to mathematical analysis and make sense empirically? What can we say about the inherent ease or difficulty of learning problems? Addressing these questions will require pulling in notions and ideas from statistics, complexity theory, information theory, cryptography, game theory, and empirical machine learning research. Text: An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory by Michael Kearns and Umesh Vazirani, plus papers and notes for topics not in the book. Office hours: Just stop by my office or make an appointment. When you are ready to take the final, click here . When you are done, or 48 hours has passed (whichever comes first :-)), please slide it under my door. I need to have all final exams by Monday May 10, 5:00pm at the latest. The final is open book in the sense that you may use the textbook and any of the lecture notes. But, you shouldn't look in research papers for solutions, even research papers that may have been handed out in class. Clarifications: clarifications have been added to 4(a) [no contradictory literals allowed] and 3 [g(x) need not be an integer].
PCWorld.com - Is E-Voting Safe? Millions will cast their ballots this year using voting machines based on PC Even if the machines work flawlessly, it ll be hard to prove that to a http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115608,00.asp
Extractions: Packaging Machines World-wide, for more than two decades, MULTIVAC has been one of the most important and leading manufacturers of machinery for packaging a large variety of products in films. Packaging solutions; thermoformers / rollstock vacuum chamber machines, traysealers, shrink packaging systems and cross-web/inline labelers for food, medical and industrial applications. Packaging Machines The company was founded in Böhen / Southern Germany in 1961, to produce tabletop vacuum packaging machines . In 1966 MULTIVAC successfully introduced its first horizontal form-fill-seal packaging machine . A revolution in packaging began with machines accommodating various web widths of packaging materials from two separate film rolls; the modular design adaptable for different capacity ranges in any size of processing plants. The present main factory and offices were opened in 1970 in Wolfertschwenden / Southern Germany, in addition to which, in 1974, a branch factory in Lechashau / Austria was built. Nowadays, the total production area in both factories is approximately 21'300 m2. MULTIVAC EXPORT AG in Hünenberg / Switzerland was founded in 1969 to co-ordinate the export business of MULTIVAC packaging machines installed in over 80 countries all over the world and to assist its subsidiaries in Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the USA, and its sales and service centres in more than 50 countries.
Cheating Fruit Machines But it was impossible to prove it, because once you ve made your choice andpressed the button, Until now, that is. CHEATING FRUIT MACHINES THE PROOF http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/fruit1.htm
Extractions: It's your lucky day! You've dropped a couple of pound coins into the fruit machine in your local pub or arcade, and you're a winner! Three blue sevens on the winline for a £5 win! But wait! Before you collect that fiver, the machine is offering you a chance to "gamble". If you guess the right way, you could increase that £5 win to £10, £15 and finally the £25 jackpot. The machine has a number reel, with numbers from 1 to 12. On the reel a "10" is showing. Should you go Higher, or Lower? The answer, of course, is "It makes no difference" . The machine has already determined whether you're going to win or lose. If the machine has decided you're going to lose and you choose "Higher", the machine will spin in a number lower than a 10. If you choose "Lower", it'll spin in a higher number. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it. It's not a "gamble" at all. It's fraud, and it's illegal. You're being robbed. Of course, we've all suspected at one time or another that this is the case. But it was impossible to prove it, because once you've made your choice and pressed the button, there's no way of going back in time and seeing what would have happened if you'd pressed the other button. Until now, that is.
Heller Ehrman And Venture Law Group Prove Case For RightFax And HP Heller Ehrman and Venture Law Group prove Case for RightFax and HP. Reams ofpaper and rows of fax machinescommon sights in busy law offices. http://www.captaris.com/news_and_events/case_studies/Heller_Ehrman.html
Extractions: Javascript is disabled in your web browser. Please use the Captaris.com sitemap for global navigation. PARTNER LOGIN BECOME A PARTNER CASE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL ... Case Studies Heller Ehrman and Venture Law Group Prove Case for RightFax and HP Overview Case Studies By Solution By Industry ... Reviews and Awards Two prestigious law firms called their manual faxing methods into question. Both researched the best technology for servicing clients. Later, when the firms merged, they found enterprise fax and e-document delivery from Captaris RightFax, the industry leader had won both cases, hands-down. BACKGROUND Upon looking for a reliable replacement to manual faxing, both Heller Ehrman and VLG found evidence pointing to one solution: enterprise fax and e-document delivery from Captaris RightFax. Using RightFax, companies can send and receive documents electronically from the desktop, email, CRM, ERP and other business applications.
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Disinformation From the vision of the Founding Fathers to the mythmaking machine of Hollywood, Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, http://www.disinfo.com/
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem The proof of Gödel s Incompleteness Theorem is so simple, and so sneaky, Someone introduces Gödel to a UTM, a machine that is supposed to be a Universal http://www.miskatonic.org/godel.html
Extractions: Miskatonic University Press wtd@pobox.com Burton and Gordon Fictional Footnotes FRBR Blog ... available in English translation and also in a modernized translation . It's also in print from Dover in a nice, inexpensive edition. outside the system in order to come up with new rules and axioms, but by doing so you'll only create a larger system with its own unprovable statements. The implication is that all logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules. Principia , or any other system within which arithmetic can be developed, is essentially incomplete . In other words, given any consistent set of arithmetical axioms, there are true mathematical statements that cannot be derived from the set... Even if the axioms of arithmetic are augmented by an indefinite number of other true ones, there will always be further mathematical truths that are not formally derivable from the augmented set. Rucker
Salon.com Technology | Hacking Democracy Her stories on voting machines are based not on her politics but on serious, She wonders how you can prove that everything went well when what goes on http://salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/
Extractions: By Farhad Manjoo During the past five months, Bev Harris has e-mailed to news organizations a series of reports that detail alarming problems in the high-tech voting machinery currently sweeping its way through American democracy. But almost no one is paying attention. Harris is a literary publicist and writer whose investigations into the secret world of voting equipment firms have led some to call her the Erin Brockovich of elections. Harris has discovered, for example, that Diebold, the company that supplied touch-screen voting machines to Georgia during the 2002 election, made its system's sensitive software files available on a public Internet site. She has reported on the certification process for machines coming onto the market revealing that the software code running the equipment is seldom thoroughly reviewed and can often be changed with mysteriously installed "patches" just prior to an election. And in perhaps her most eyebrow-raising coup, she found that Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, used to run the company that built most of the machines that count votes in his state and that he still owns a stake in the firm.
News@nature They need to provide scientific proof. Clonaid has so far refused to give the properties of the machine are moot. We need conclusive proof. http://www.nature.com/news/2003/030127/full/030127-13.html
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Randomness And Mathematical Proof Input to and output from the machine are both in the form of binary digits. and the machine could be asked to ``judge the merits of the proof. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/sciamer.html
Extractions: Although randomness can be precisely defined and can even be measured, a given number cannot be proved to be random. This enigma establishes a limit to what is possible in mathematics. Almost everyone has an intuitive notion of what a random number is. For example, consider these two series of binary digits: The first is obviously constructed according to a simple rule; it consists of the number 01 repeated ten times. If one were asked to speculate on how the series might continue, one could predict with considerable confidence that the next two digits would be and 1. Inspection of the second series of digits yields no such comprehensive pattern. There is no obvious rule governing the formation of the number, and there is no rational way to guess the succeeding digits. The arrangement seems haphazard; in other words, the sequence appears to be a random assortment of 0's and 1's. The second series of binary digits was generated by flipping a coin 20 times and writing a 1 if the outcome was heads and a if it was tails. Tossing a coin is a classical procedure for producing a random number, and one might think at first that the provenance of the series alone would certify that it is random. This is not so. Tossing a coin 20 times can produce any one of 2
14th USENIX Security Symposium - Technical Program we require that the code comes with a machinecheckable, mathematical proof to automatically output the required proof at the machine-code level. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec05/tech/
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Democracy Now! | Haitian Prime Minister: "Coup D'Etat Machine In Motion" Haitian Prime Minister Coup D Etat machine in Motion And if you want provethat terrorists are involved in the uprising, you have it right there. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/18/1635222&mode=thread&tid=25
