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		<title>Rules Apathy: Form vs Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have received a few private messages about Charles Young and his form v. function rules debate.  Folks have sent me references and articles to counter his debate points, however,  I am impassive about this topic.
It is common sense to objective systems engineers (and well documented) that trying to manage large sets of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/03/10/apathy-form-vs-function/</link>
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		<title>RETE Engines Must Forward and Backward Chain?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a new development for me, I recently learned that one of the criteria for a &#8220;RETE-based rules-engine&#8221; to actually be classified as &#8220;RETE&#8221; is that the software must perform both forward and backward chaining.  A well respected rules professional just informed me:
If [the rules-engine] is just forward chaining it&#8217;s not RETE because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/03/06/rete-engines-must-forwards-and-backwards-chain/</link>
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		<title>Disadvantages of Rule-Based Systems (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Orwellian Event Processing the discussion moved away from my original intent, which was primarily to discuss the vendor-state-of-denial regarding the prior art for processing complex events, and gravitated toward a discussion on the &#8220;inefficiencies&#8221; of rule-based systems.  I was surprised learn that there are professionals who believe that there is no basis in fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/03/05/disadvantages-of-rule-based-systems-part-1/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Events Revisited (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first read The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems by David Luckham I took away three high level ideas:

Events are important in business.
Events can be processed in a hierarchical way.
Rapide is a modeling tool developed at Stanford that can be used to model complex systems.

These three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/03/02/the-power-of-events-revisited-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Back to the Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after a long period of working on a number of operational projects, I&#8217;m going to take a break from writing code and actually do some blogging again.   For some this is good news (and I quote from a private note):
I’m thankful you’ve started blogging again. For a while there I was afraid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/03/01/back-to-the-blog/</link>
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		<title>Orwellian Event Processing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we completed the installation and training of an open source Bayesian classifier to replace a rule-based approach to manage forum spam.  In a nutshell, we found the rule-based approach was highly prone to both false positives and false negatives; however, a statistical approach using a Bayesian approach has turned out to be far superior. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/02/28/orwellian-event-processing/</link>
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		<title>Web Cams: The Dark Side of the Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt everyone has read the story where the Lower Merion Township School District remotely enabled webcams on laptops to, in their words, &#8220;locate missing laptops&#8221;.    What on Earth were they thinking?
Imagine your daughter has her laptop set up in her room because she did her homework last night.  She goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/02/25/web-cams-the-dark-side-of-the-net/</link>
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		<title>Google v. China: Google Deserves Our Respect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you have not seen this, David Drummond, Google&#8217;s SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer has written one of the best blog posts I have even read, A New Approach to China. Google is boldly going where few have ventured to go before, including the US government.
China operates as if they can bully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/01/13/google-v-china-google-deserves-our-respect/</link>
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		<title>A US Constitutional Failure Regarding Our Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most of you, I am still in complete shock over Northwest Flight 253 and how our government still cannot connect-the-dots in simple intelligence matters to protect us from harm.
In this case, the well-respected father of a radical-Islamic Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reached out to the US Embassy and other organizations in an honorable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2010/01/01/a-us-constitutional-failure-regarding-our-protection/</link>
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		<title>Cybersecurity:  The Problem with Czars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 21st, 2009, the White House announced that friend and colleague Howard Schmidt had been appointed to the Executive Office of the President of the United States to serve as the &#8220;Cybersecurity Czar&#8221; for the Obama administration.
I find this personally interesting because a few people (only a few, not many) contacted me earlier this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecepblog.com/2009/12/23/cybersecurity-the-problem-with-czars/</link>
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