This is the first in a series describing the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence. Check back to find more posts. When asked about the meaning of life, digital physics pioneer Edward Fredkin responded, “I think our mission is to create...

Your common, non-technical Windows user has most likely not heard anything more than a cursory mention about Linux. They have questions about Linux that are not always answered easily. Many experienced Linux users are not able to answer questions that...

Again, apologies for the much delayed posting.  Finals together with the sluggishness of my backup computer made me unable to write this until now. For those who don’t remember, we are in the middle of a series on what interesting developments and...

Apologies for the late posting; a mixture of hardware woes and scheduling issues  made getting this post out difficult. As mentioned in part one of this series, despite the legendary pace of development in the Open Source community, it can be...

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 contained over 283 million lines of code, and the Linux kernel development mailing list is of such high message density that even Linus Torvalds himself reads only a fraction of the messages that daily flood the development...