Monthly Archives: April 2006

People Ought to Learn English

Posted on April 28, 2006 by ben

Bush today: I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English [...] Fantastic.

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Secure, scalable storage of personal genomic data

Posted on April 25, 2006 by ben

Woohoo, I’m now a published genomics scientist. My work from last summer with Zak Kohane of the Harvard Medical School is now available as a preliminary abstract at BMC Genomics. We built the GenePING software, which extends the existing PING … Continue reading →

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WOTE 2006

Posted on April 24, 2006 by ben

Peter Ryan, Ronald Rivest, and David Chaum are organizing the Workshop On Trustworthy Elections – 2006. I’m on the program committee. Send in your research! There’s much exciting work left to do in the voting field, and as the press … Continue reading →

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My Hopeless, Repetitive Talk

Posted on April 20, 2006 by ben

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk on interoperable metadata at the Semantic Technologies conference. I give a number of talks about various technology topics covering web, semantic web, crypto and voting, but this is one of the few … Continue reading →

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Smoking vs. Genetically-Modified Crops

Posted on April 15, 2006 by ben

So the French are opposed to genetically modified crops. And to some degree, I understand the concerns they have regarding the unknown consequences of genetic manipulation of the food supply. It’s a complicated issue, of course. Genetically modified crops could … Continue reading →

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VVPAT is a placebo

Posted on April 12, 2006 by ben

Dan Tokaji points to a recent opinion by Black Box Voting’s Bev Harris and concludes that we may be converging on the idea that VVPAT is a placebo. This is a very interesting development. One has to be very careful … Continue reading →

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Sadness and Anger

Posted on April 9, 2006 by ben

In case my previous post a week ago didn’t make it clear, the situation in France makes me incredibly sad and angry. I’m sad that not enough of the French youth understands that, without an economic incentive to hire young … Continue reading →

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Patents are so French

Posted on April 5, 2006 by ben

Netflix is suing Blockbuster for “stealing their idea” of online DVD rentals for a fixed monthly price. Nothing like a business method patent to throw a wrench into this whole idea of competition and free markets, eh? So it got … Continue reading →

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The Clooney Attack

Posted on April 3, 2006 by ben

George Clooney is upset at the Gawker Stalker web site for tracking celebrities by collecting information from the public. Clooney suggests Data Poisoning their site by submitting hundreds of bogus celebrity sighting reports. I’m a big fan of Clooney’s latest … Continue reading →

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