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Issues of crypto, politics, & chaos [sciencedaily.com]
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> Posted 10/8/98
> Encryption Advance For Secure Global Communications
> Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National
> Laboratory have achieved a significant advance in demonstrating the
> viability of an unbreakable encryption scheme for transmitting secure
> communications to and from satellites.
>
> Posted 9/9/98
> Mathematicians Prove That Group Decisions Can Be Impossible To Predict
> For several years, some political scientists and others have argued
> that group decisions such as elections are impossible to
> anticipate-even if the preferences of the voters are well established
> and the decision-making rules are set. Now there's a mathematical
> proof to back that proposition.
>
> Posted 9/4/98
> Chaos-Based System That "Evolves" Answers May Be Alternative To
> Current Computers
> A revolutionary new computing technique that uses a network of chaotic
> elements to "evolve" its answers could provide an alternative to the
> digital computing systems widely used today. Described for the first
> time in the September 7 issue of Physical Review Letters this
> "dynamics-based computation" may be well suited for optical computing
> using ultra-fast chaotic lasers and computing with silicon/neural
> tissue hybrid circuitry.
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