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AUGUST 30, 2009

I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. As one attendee put it to me, he can always go to everyone's blog and find out what they're working on. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.

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APRIL 30, 2012

CASE launched the ESI Award in 2009, and Benetech is proud to join the company of past award recipients. Second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Joanne Sprague wrote a thoughtful blog to reflect on my visit with CASE, where you can also watch the full video of my ESI lecture.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A key with an n with 232 digits (768 bits) was factored in 2009 using many years of computing time and dozens of computers spread around the world. This was detectable, and the keys were factored to yield their p and q (there are good, not-so-technical explanations of how this works at BoingBoing and at Ben Adida's blog ).

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! More than fifty book requests have already come in.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

On Financial Narratives and Financial Footnotes: The Truth Is in the Fine Print Guest Beneblog by Teresa Throckmorton, Benetech's CFO and VP, Finance In a previous blog post, we shared the Seven Benetech Truths : the core values that define our identity and culture, that guide our work, and that tell our story. and Catherine T.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In academic articles, on blogs and at conferences about quantifying war casualties, there has been debate about whether deaths that occur in small incidents tend to be systematically underreported in IBC’s press sources. Most of these previously-unknown deaths occurred in small incidents, in which 1-3 people were killed.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

A guest Beneblog by By Anita Gohdes, Megan Price, and Patrick Ball Several media organizations including Reuters , Foreign Policy and New Scientist covered the January 21 release of the 2009 Human Security Report (HSR) entitled, “The Shrinking Cost of War.”

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