Our online world requires us to share private information with others. This is possible thanks to public key encryption, which works because a certain mathematics problem in number theory is…
Is public-key encryption in danger of collapse?
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Stop commercializing academic publishing
Dear academic publishers: your business model runs completely counter to the aims of the academic community, for this reason: academic publishing is not like commercial publishing. Stop conflating the two.…
Philosophy of Science Journals and Elsevier
Not Elsevier Elsevier Journal Publisher American Philosophical Quarterly University of Illinois Press Analysis Oxford University Press Australasian Journal of Philosophy Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Biology and Philosophy Springer Verlag British…
Even more philosophy of physics conferences, Summer 2010
If you know about the usual summer conferences and are still looking for more: Hannover: Philosophy of Physics in Germany – Current State and Perspectives (11-12 Jun 2010). If you…
Overheard at New Directions in Foundations of Physics ’10
If you missed New Directions in Foundations of Physics conference earlier this month, here are a few memorable one-liners. You’ll notice that many are from Bill Unruh, who seemed to…