"Intent" is not a number

By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

Surrounded, as we are, by the digitizing of almost everything, it is easy to get swept along by the tide. As digital barrier after barrier comes crashing down, it is easy to succumb to the notion that everything can, in principle become digital in some shape or form. Some of a more theoretical bent often point out the possibility that the entire universe is really just a great big computer following some fundamentally simple, deterministic rules. It follows, therefore, does it not, that we can encode anything in a form that a computer can understand?

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Dr. Tom Horan on real-time access to electronic medical records

Dr. Horan is the Director of the Kay Center for E-Health at Claremont Graduate University. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and his current focus is researching electronic health records for use in the healthcare system. In this interview, he discusses the shortcomings of the existing healthcare record systems, the advantages of having real-time access to current medical records, and one of the big challenges standing in the way of providing consumers with their personal health records.

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Interview: Steven Sprague, Trusted Computing Group

Steven Sprague is one of the original founders of the Trusted Computing Group, a nonprofit forum to develop open standards for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies. Here he discusses the trusted platform module, and how to go about establishing a standards-based deployment of security within the enterprise.

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