The Heuristics of War: Scientific Method and the Founders of Operations Research
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By Thomas, William  Abstract. This paper explores the relationship between operations research (OR) as practised during the Second World War and the claims of many of its proponents that it constituted an application of scientific method.
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In 1935, researchers from Columbia University fanned out around the city of Allentown, Pa., and handed out leaflets ahead of local and state elections. What residents did not know was that they were part of an experiment in political persuasion -- an experiment whose results came to mind last week...
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Les versions allemande, franÃ§aise et nÃ©erlandaise sont dÃ©sormais disponibles. La version italienne sera bientÃ´t accessible. Copernic et son partenaire de dÃ©veloppement Ã©conomique international Contraco
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Men may have developed a psychology   that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a   scientist said on Friday.
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The winner of this year's competition in the classic computerized strategy game shows that a tactic based on cooperating with team members can succeed over one that relies on echoing rivals' moves. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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Letters: Going deeper on the question of security and operating systems.
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During the Cold War, Canada's National Optics Institute developed a system to detect which type of enemy tank or fighter jet was approaching. After the Soviet Union's demise, such threats were deemed less likely, and the technology sat on the shelf.
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Serve logica del sistema.Basta rinvii sulla competitivita'
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Analysis Fragmentation and US indifference
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Also: Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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An MIT inventor bent on public service creates practical solutions to life-threatening problems around the world. Her approach: be a master of the obvious. Second in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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Using an analogy to slot machines selection, Hungarian scientists provide Go machine with better decision making skills.
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working code.
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Last week I came across Godwin's Law. Many of you may already be familiar with it. For those of you who aren't, Godwin's Law, according to wikipedia, states:  As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.  read more
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David Lindleyâs new book about the development and impact of Werner Heisenbergâs uncertainty principle provides a useful prÃ©cis of the mind-blowing progress of physics in the early 20th century.