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-Inventing the Future 14.1 How People Make Programs

You’ll Feel the Rhythm of this Algorithm

What if your smart phone or computer could do routine tasks ten times faster just by doing math differently? According to this Fast Times article, MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that could have a dramatic impact on every aspect of your digital world.
www.fastcompany.com/1810522/mits-math-breakthrough-could-transform-your-phone-tablet-pc-tv-mri-scans

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-Cross Currents 10.5 Human Questions for a Computer Age 4.6 Software Piracy and Intellectual Property Laws

Patent Wars: Creativity vs Greed

Patent imagePatents were originally designed to encourage creativity, but in the digital world they may be having the opposite effect. This engaging episode of public radio’s This American Life takes us inside the trenches of the intellectual property wars.