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- Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf 37 comments
- Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf 8 comments
- Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/state-machine.pdf 24 comments
- Every Computer System Is a State Machine https://blog.the-pans.com/state-machine/ 68 comments
- Computation and State Machines: Use math, not PLs, to think about computation [pdf] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/state-machine.pdf 6 comments
- Leslie Lamport: Computer Science and State Machines (2008) [pdf] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/deroever-festschrift.pdf 14 comments
- If Real computers have finite number of states, why Turing machines are needed? http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/34398/1037 4 comments
- State Machines – Basics of Computer Science http://blog.markshead.com/869/state-machines-computer-science/ 13 comments programming
- Basics of Computer Science : Understanding State Machines http://blog.markshead.com/869/state-machines-computer-science/ 24 comments compsci
- Are personal computers finite state machines? http://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/16729/are-real-computers-finite-state-machines 37 comments askscience
- Leslie Lamport: Computation and State Machines [PDF, 2008] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/state-machine.pdf 11 comments programming
- A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person’s emotional state http://www.alphagalileo.org/viewitem.aspx?itemid=114701&culturecode=en 15 comments compsci
- Finite State Machines - Understanding the Fundamentals of Computer Science http://blog.markwshead.com/869/state-machines-computer-science/ 166 comments programming
- Scientists develop machine-learning method to predict the behavior of molecules, yielding substantial savings in computer time compared to state-of-the-art simulation methods while achieving similar accuracy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00839-3?error=cookies_not_supported&code=eb5e68e4-9005-4448-a495-b0bc3c9cba20 11 comments science
- There were 1800 problems reported with computer voting machines in 2008. Despite four years to prepare, 16 states will use computers with no paper back-up. http://www.csmonitor.com/usa/elections/2012/0727/is-your-vote-secure-many-digital-systems-lack-paper-backups-study-says 10 comments politics
- State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/voting.tmp& 3 comments reddit.com
- State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/voting.tmp&feed=rss.news 61 comments reddit.com
- Are Transformers Turing Machines or Finite State Machines in the limit? "Transformers Aren’t Turing-complete, But a Good Disguise Is All You Need - Life Is Computation" https://www.lifeiscomputation.com/transformers-are-not-turing-complete/ 2 comments computerscience
- Real computers have only a finite number of states, so what is the relevance of Turing machines to real computers? [with some great answers from the CSTheory community] http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/34398/1037 26 comments compsci
- The NSA has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=2 4 comments worldnews
- California's secretary of State, had asked computer scientists at the University of California to conduct a "top to bottom" analysis of the thousands of touchscreen electronic voting machines in use in the Golden State: "Things were worse than I thought. There were far too many ways that people with ill intentions could compromise the voting systems without detection." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20546322/site/newsweek/ 33 comments reddit.com
- Election systems in the United States, specifically e-voting machines, are extremely vulnerable to manipulation by computer hackers and outside adversaries, a report released Monday reveals http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/20/report-reveals-stunning-vulnerabilities-in-us-election-system/ 20 comments moderatepolitics
- I made a search engine for computer science papers. Uses state of the art machine learning / NLP techniques (Bert) for a natural language search, so it's less dependent of specific keywords and keyphrases. https://github.com/santosh-gupta/naturallanguagerecommendations 4 comments programming
- Voting machine password hacks as easy as 'abcde', details Virginia state report: AVS WinVote machines used in three presidential elections in state ‘would get an F-minus’ in security, according to computer scientist pushing for decertification http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/virginia-hacking-voting-machines-security 24 comments politics
- Voting machine password hacks as easy as 'abcde', details Virginia state report. AVS WinVote machines used in three presidential elections in state ‘would get an F-minus’ in security, said computer scientist who pushed for decertification http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/virginia-hacking-voting-machines-security 974 comments technology
- Last Thursday, two days before the August 11th presidential Iowa Straw Poll, Bob Schulz and seven other Plaintiffs filed suit in federal court in Des Moines, Iowa seeking to permanently prohibit the state of Iowa from conducting any Straw Poll, Caucus, Primary, Special or General Election unless the voting and vote counting was open, verifiable, machine-free, and computer-free. http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/update/update2007-08-15.htm 6 comments politics