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Tomas has worked for Cardiff City Council as an assistant psychologist and residential social worker in the mid to late 1990's. He decided to follow earlier inclinations and moved to working as a computer games designer for Hothouse Creations and Pivotal Games for PC, Dreamcast, PlayStation2 and xbox. He has also worked as an associate lecturer at Bridgwater College on matters of media and technology and computer games. He is currently working on a PhD examining evolutionary theory and networked forms of media at UWE. Tomas is the co-author of the first ever book on filmmaking and the Internet: PlugIn&TurnOn: A Guide to Filmmaking for the Internet. Published by Marion Boyars Publishers (May 2004). Tomas is interested in evolution, science and reason, but looks forward to the day when the great Cthulhu awakes and ushers in the end times. Ai! Ai! Cthulhu Ph'Tagen. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu Rl'yeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Tomas is on twitter at: twitter.com/arclightifire
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- January 27, 2010
- 05:52 AM
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Looking at Peer-to-Peer Optimization Methods
by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming
P2P algorithms can offer robustness and communication efficiency over more centralised GRID methods. So authors compared to p2p algorithms performance searching in large-scale and unreliable networks.
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Balázs Bánhelyi, Marco Biazzini, Alberto Montresor, and Márk Jelasity. (2009) Peer-to-Peer Optimization in Large Unreliable Networks with Branch-and-Bound and Particle Swarms. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, 87-92. info:/
- March 7, 2011
- 05:04 AM
- 1,073 views
Research Suggests that File Sharing has a Positive Effect of Film Audiences
by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming
This is an interesting bit of research, adding to the growing body of data trying to understand the positive or negative impacts of P2P downloading of films and the like. (The US General Accounting Office did a huge survey of the reseach in 2009 and were unable to conclude a positive nor negative effect either way.) This [...]... Read more »
Sung Wook Ji. (2007) Piracy Impact on the Theatrical Movie Industry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online. info:/
- November 1, 2009
- 04:01 PM
- 754 views
Bias in Measuring p2p Networks
by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming
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Stutzbach, D., Rejaie, R., Duffield, N., Sen, S., & Willinger, W. (2009) On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(2), 377-390. DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2008.2001730
- November 23, 2010
- 03:42 AM
- 392 views
Discussions beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’
by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming
Andersson, J (2010). Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’ vs. ‘information wants to be free’: How Swedish file-sharers motivate their action Unpublished as yet Discussion of paper: <em>Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’ vs. ‘information wants to be free’: How Swedish file-sharers motivate their action</em> by Jonas Andersson of [...]... Read more »
Andersson, J. (2010) Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’ vs. ‘information wants to be free’: How Swedish file-sharers motivate their action. Unpublished as yet. info:/
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