{"id":3065,"date":"2009-04-01T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2009-04-01T04:56:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:56:35","slug":"recommended-reading-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3065","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Billing! <\/strong>CTlab<\/strong> Symposium on P.W. Singer’s Wired For\u00a0War<\/a><\/p>\n

CTlab Symposium: Wired for War, additional readings\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Opening\u00a0Remarks<\/a>\u00a0 P.W. Singer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whither the Anti-Killer Robot\u00a0Lobby?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Charli Carpenter <\/strong><\/p>\n

Wired for … Nuclear\u00a0War?<\/a>\u00a0 Martin Senn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Studying War on an Infinite\u00a0Battlefield<\/a>\u00a0 Drew Conway<\/strong><\/p>\n

More Thoughts On Robots and\u00a0IHL<\/a>\u00a0 Rex Brynen<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Robots Are Not Just About Autonomy – Remote Platform Targeted\u00a0Killing<\/a>\u00a0 Kenneth Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Implications for command and\u00a0control<\/a>\u00a0 Antoine Bousquet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Provocation: Wiring Terrorist\u00a0Sanctuaries<\/a>\u00a0 Mike Innes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brave New\u00a0World?<\/a>\u00a0 John Matthew Barlow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard KSG on ‘Unmanned and Robotic\u00a0Warfare’<\/a>\u00a0 Drew Conway<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kudos to Mike Innes<\/strong> and CTLab Review<\/strong> <\/a>for organizing this symposium on Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century<\/a><\/em>,<\/strong> which has an impressive\u00a0roster of scholars, bloggers and the author Peter Singer<\/strong> participating. I just began reading Wired for War<\/em><\/strong> last night and it is excellent, the must read “future of warfare”book for 2009.<\/p>\n

(I am however, disturbed by the frequency of pop cultural references from my youth in Wired for War<\/em><\/strong>, which, if read in a tome on modern warfare, presents the reader with the inescapable conclusion that they are getting….old)<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em><\/strong> –\u00a0 The Civil Heretic<\/a><\/p>\n

This portrait of Freeman Dyson<\/a><\/strong>, one of the more important living scientific minds, and his ostracism at the hands of the\u00a0global warming\u00a0commissars in academia who brook no dissent from the party line, is one of the best NYT pieces I’ve seen in a while.<\/p>\n

Scientific American<\/em><\/strong> – Building the 21st-Century Mind<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rise of the Synthesizers. I have some problems with Howard Gardner<\/strong>, which range from his eschewing scientific rigor in investigating learning theories\u00a0whenever it suits his political views to do so, to writing books that are, at best, unevenly developed arguments. That said, Gardner\u00a0always has several important, worthwhile and often\u00a0powerful\u00a0concepts or insights amidst the other clutter he’s presenting. This is no exception. Accept the wheat, discard the chaff.<\/p>\n

CTOvision<\/strong> – Widespread Cyber Espionage: More evidence and what to do about it<\/a><\/p>\n

I will pair this with Michael Tanji’s<\/strong> Stop Reading About Cyber Security<\/a>\u00a0and Sam Liles’<\/strong> Into the darkness of cyber warfare<\/a><\/p>\n

Haft of the Spear<\/strong> – Everyone is an analyst<\/a><\/p>\n

A quality rant that includes -and I quote – “. . . there are not enough short buses in this world to transport these people to crazy town.”<\/strong> Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!<\/p>\n

Sic Semper Tyrannis –<\/strong> A good plan for Afghanistan…<\/a>\u00a0and Bob Gates on FNS – Yes, that’s what we are doing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Have not checked in with the curmudgeonly and paleoconservative Col. Lang<\/strong> in a while. : )<\/p>\n

Mapping Strategy<\/strong> – ‘Planning’ in Fog at High Speed<\/a><\/p>\n

Art <\/strong>is my metacognitive amigo.<\/p>\n

Dr. Von<\/strong> – Dispelling a Myth – Public Schools do Better in Math than Private<\/a><\/p>\n

I am not surprised, statistically speaking, that any study that was constructed adequately so as to compare students on an apples to apples basis would demonstrate these findings. Once you control for intellectual selectivity, or at times, just basic\u00a0socioeconomic level, the private advantage is lost (Harvard with open admissions would no longer be Harvard, in essence)<\/p>\n

Recommended Viewing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hat tip to Network Weaving<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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