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- Title
- Can the mother of all supercomputers save us from Big Brother?
- Author(s)
- Bailes, Matthew
- Abstract
- Today I'm annoyed at Facebook. Among the amazingly witty and touching postings from my friends and Amnesty International are 'pages you might like' and advertisements for things I don't need, especially single women. But on a happier note, I'm thinking about the mother of all supercomputers (and if there's one thing I'll always be grateful to Saddam Hussein for, it was for introducing into the Western lexicon the expression, 'the mother of all ...').
- Publication type
- Commentary
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- The Conversation, 12 November 2012
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Astronomy; Cosmology; Facebook; Supercomputers
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Trust
- Publisher URL
- http://theconversation.edu.au/can-the-mother-of-all-supercomputers-save-us-from-big-brother-10584
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012. This publication is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-ND 3.0) licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/). The published version is reproduced in accordance with this policy.
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