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This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 09/202,424 Feb. 19, 1999, now abandoned, which is a 371 of PCT/Fr98/00 582 Mar. 20, 1998.
The present invention relates to the field of slot machines such as jackpot machines and other individual gambling machines of the type found in casinos.
It relates in particular to slot machines in which bets and winnings are recorded with gambling cards. The gambling cards are of the chip card or contactless card type. The gambling cards can be dedicated to this use similarly to telephone cards. They are advantageously bank cards so that sums of money can be transferred directly to the slot machine.
The present application relates to a method and system for monitoring the transfer of value units between a plurality of gambling cards and a plurality of gambling machines, each machine being connected to a gambling card data transcriber able to credit and/or debit value units in the memory of a gambling card.
One general objective of monitoring the transfer of value units between gambling cards and gambling machines is to avoid fraud using such cards.
Management systems for gambling machines equipped with chip card readers designed for managing the gambling machines in relatively enclosed, controlled sites such as casinos are known. These systems are designed for such an environment since they are heavily regulated and controlled, and are unlikely to allow fraud in gambling transactions using chip cards.
Document EP-A-0 360 613 describes for example a system for transferring data between a chip card and a plurality of machines with means for transmitting and storing machine data in the chip card. Such a system makes it possible to list gambling operations with a collecting card that stores a list of gambling operations for accounting or tax purposes.
One drawback of such a system is that it is not possible to monitor all the gambling operations carried out unless all the gambling operations are polled with the collecting card, which is a time-consuming procedure.
Also, due to an increasing public demand, there are plans for setting up gambling machines in sites less protected than casinos such as private gambling rooms or bars, or even private homes such as those of the gamblers.
It is clear that such a dispersion of gambling machines poses substantial problems regarding the security of the transactions involved in gambling operations.
One goal of the invention is to enable gambling machines that operate with chip cards in unprotected sites to be developed.
Another goal of the invention is to reinforce the integrity of gambling machines operating with chip cards.
The invention provides for the gambling machines to be networked with a central processing unit. According to the invention, the central processing unit has a database storing information corresponding to that stored in gambling cards such as information on the gambler, card identification data, and data on the stored value balance in the card. When the card data are checked against the database of the central processing unit, the integrity of such a gambling machine system operating with chip cards or contactless cards can be ensured.
The invention thus provides a secured method for monitoring transfers of value units between a plurality of gambling cards and a plurality of gambling machines, each machine being connected to a transcriber of data onto a gambling card, the machines being connected in a secured network with a central processing unit by means of link means, the method having the following steps, during a gambling operation:
The invention advantageously provides security means enabling the data messages exchanged over the network to be authenticated, namely enabling such messages to be signed.
The invention also provides a secured system for monitoring transfers of value units between a plurality of gambling cards and a plurality of gambling machines, each machine being provided with a transcriber able to debit value units of a gambling card, the machines being connected in a secured network with a central processing unit by link means, whereby a gambling card stores data representing gambling operations conducted, particularly data identifying the card and data representing the balance of the value units debited and/or credited during previous gambling operations, characterized in that the central processing unit has a database that in parallel stores the data representing gambling operations carried out, particularly card identification data and data representing the balances of the value units debited and/or credited during previous gambling operations, and in that the monitoring means check that, for an identified card, the database data and the card data correspond, particularly that the data representing the value unit balance correspond, in order to verify the integrity of the system.
A security module for authenticating data messages can advantageously be provided in the network, in a transcriber, a machine, the central unit, or even network link means.
The invention will be better understood by reading the description and the drawings that follow, provided solely as nonlimiting examples; in the attached drawings:
Such a gambling machine 200, similar to the slot machines found in casinos, has an electronic coin meter 210 that will hereinafter be called data transcriber, which transcribes data onto gambling card CJ.
The card data transcriber 210 is connected to the electronics of machine 200, for example by a serial connector of the RS 485 type. The machine and reader have input-output interfaces designed for this link.
Classically, the machine is equipped with a display 211 informing the gamblers at all times of the balance they have available for playing and the bets placed and winnings made.
Machine 200 in the figures can of course be an electronic coin meter machine exclusively, but also a double coin meter machine, namely a machine that not only has this electronic coin meter but also a coin (or token) meter symbolized by reference 201.
In the case of a double coin meter machine, the gambler is able to play with coins or tokens and receive his winnings solely in the form of coins.
The gambling cards CJ shown in the form of chip cards have an electrically erasable read-only memory, for example an EEPROM memory.
It may be for example a chip card with a microprocessor, a program memory, and a RAM type working memory.
These chip cards can also be unit-loading cards of the rechargeable type. These cards have for this purpose an electrically programmable memory of the abacus type.
In addition, the gambling cards can be contactless cards, where the card has an integrated circuit memory and a microprocessor and an electronic circuit for transmitting data without electrical contact. For example a transponder such as that described in French Patent Application FR 96 16061 can be used.
The construction of gambling machines 200 and their connection to data transcribers transcribing onto gambling cards will not be described in detail here. Construction examples of gambling machines are described for example in French Patent FR 96 10031 the description whereof is incorporated herein by reference.
For monitoring the gambling operations and transactions with the cards, machines 200, 200′, 200″, and 200′″ are networked together with a central processing unit designated 1 in FIG. 1. The machines in the network are connected to central processing unit 1 by link means 123. As shown in
Link means 123 in the case of a local area network like that of a casino are constituted by a local link. The local link is for example a serial link of the RS 485 type, a parallel bus connector, an optical fiber, a radio link, or any other transmission means.
In the case of a network linking dispersed gambling rooms, the link means may be transmission channels specific to the network, or telephone lines.
To establish telephone links, the network has modulator-demodulators of the modem type 120, 120′, 120″, and 120′″ interfaced with link means 123 and a gambling machine 200, 200′, 200″, and 200′″, respectively.
Central processing unit 1 is for example a central computer also connected to link means 123 by a modem 101 in order to form part of the network.
In the case of telephone links, the machines are connected individually with the central processing means, and the machines are not necessarily linked together. Modem 101 of processing means 1 may advantageously have a switchboard with several telephone lines.
The use of telephone links has the advantage of extending the network to the homes of the gamblers. The gambling machines are preferably personal computers 300 and 300′ of the PC type. The machines can thus each be connected to a transcriber that transcribes data onto a gambling card 310 or 310′ preferably having a modem 130 or 130′ for example of the Gemtel type sold by the applicant.
The network used may in particular be an open communication network of the Internet type.
The system and network also have at least one loading terminal shown in
Classically, the chip cards dedicated to gambling are non-reloadable cards like telephone cards, and are produced and loaded only by a central organization.
In one application with non-reloadable cards, database BD of central processing means 1 has initial balances S1, S2, . . . , Sn of values credited in cards CJ1, CJ2, . . . , CJn before they are placed in circulation.
However, according to one advantageous variant, the cards are reloaded with value units by loading terminals.
In practice, such a terminal may be the terminal of a casino cashier. Alternatively, a multitude of loading terminals may be disposed at news-agents or other businesses accessible to the gamblers.
Thus, when a gambler wishes to obtain credit, he hands his gambling card CJ1 to the operator entitled to use terminal 100, who inserts this card into the transcriber part 110 of this terminal 100 and, using the cash register keyboard, enters the credit amount the gambler desires. This amount is transferred to transcriber 110 which then records on chip card CJ1 the significant information corresponding to the credit desired by the gambler.
According to the invention, the reloading terminal can then communicate to central processing unit 1, by means of network link means 123, the data read into the card to be reloaded, particularly its identification number Id and its balance S of value units. The identification number Id of gambling card CJ1 can be checked directly by reloading terminal 100 or by its data transcriber 110 or alternatively by central processing unit 1. The invention thus calls for a step preceding the gambling operations which is to enter, in the database of central processing unit 1 and in the memory of a gambling card CJ1, data representing an initial balance value when the operation preceding the loading of card CJ1 is carried out.
According to the first alternative, as shown in
According to the second alternative, this card authentication is carried out by the central processing unit 1, the identification numbers Id1, Id2, . . . , Idn and corresponding authentication keys Kt1, Kt2, . . . , Ktn being stored in database BD of the central processing unit or preferably in a security module MS0 similar to MS1. This second alterative has the advantage of preventing the secret authentication keys from being disseminated.
The invention also provides for an exchange of data between the terminal and the central processing unit of data stored in the database of central processing unit 1. Preferably, this data exchange is accompanied by an authentication certificate. A security protocol for transmitting such certificates will be described below. This protocol advantageously prevents a spurious machine in the network from falsely crediting the database. Terminal T can thus communicate balance S of the values previously debited or credited on gambling card CJ1 to the central processing unit 1. After authenticating identification number Id1 of the card or the certificate accompanying the balance data, one can thus check that the balance S entered in the memory of gambling card CJ1 indeed corresponds to the balance S1 stored in database BD. If the check is positive, the central processing unit 1 sends an approval signal so that card CJ1 can be reloaded by the terminal and transcriber T. If the check is negative, an alert procedure or signal can be put into effect at central processing unit 1 or at the loading terminal. In a network of casino slot machines for example, the cashier can be alerted by the loading terminal to find out the reason for such a malfunction. In a more extensive network, card CJ1 can be swallowed by transcriber T of the terminal so that the malfunction can be investigated.
In addition, the database or memory of gambling cards CJ may also contain information on the gambler, for example his age, gambling habits for gambler loyalty applications, awarding free games, etc.
We will now present protocols for monitoring value unit transfers during gambling operations carried out with the method or system according to the invention.
At the start of the gambling operations, the transcriber that transcribes data onto card 210 of the gambling machine reads the identification number in the memory of gambling card CJ1. As stated previously in regard to
With each following gambling operation, the balance S of the value units allocated to the gambler is reviewed following bets placed or winnings made.
According to a first embodiment of the invention, data on the gambling operation carried out are simply communicated to central processing unit 1, particularly the new value unit balance obtained during this gambling operation. Central processing unit 1 can thus store the list of operations carried out in the form of a list of successive credits or debits recorded on card CJ1. This list of operations Op101, Op102, . . . , Op10x is for example recorded in database BD under identification number Id1 of card CJ1 during use.
Entry of balance S1 or operations Op101, Op102, . . . , Op10x in database BD of central processing unit 1 then serves to establish an accounting statement of the operations or a tax verification. Such a history of operations also enables the extent of the fraud to be measured if a forged card is checked.
According to a second embodiment of the invention, there is an additional step of checking that the data stored in card CJ1 and the data in database BD correspond so that the integrity of a system of which such a card CJ1, such a machine 200, network 123, and central processing unit 1 are composed can be checked.
Two types of check can be used: a check of identification number Id or a check of the card balance S.
The check of the identification number Id1 of card CJ1 is run with an identification key Kt1 as seen above. According to this second embodiment, identification number Id is communicated to central unit 1 via the link means of the network. Central unit 1 stores identification keys Kt1, Kt2, . . . , Ktn of cards CJ1, CJ2, . . . , CJn in circulation, in its database BD or preferably in a security module MS0. Security module MS0 thus performs the identification calculations internally.
Also, the check can be made on the value unit balance in card CJ1. In this case, transcriber T reads from the card the data on the value unit balance S and sends the data to central processing unit 1 through network link means 123. Balance S of card CJ1 is then read by comparison to balance S1 indicated in database BD under identification number Id1. If the two balances S and S1 match, the gambling operation is authorized by central processing unit 1.
According to another alterative, the check can be made of the certification of the data exchanged from gambling card CJ1. Standard data encryption algorithms of the DES algorithm type can certify the digital data exchanged between card CJ1, transcriber T, the gambling machine, and central processing unit 1. Encryption and decryption of the certificate accompanying the transmitted data is possible and consistent only if a secret key is used.
The data encryption algorithms of the DES type have complex series of calculations that will not be presented in detail herein.
One example of using DES algorithms will be presented simply considering that the algorithm furnishes an encrypted number called session key K′, from a first given number, called identification key K, and a random number Rnd, according to the example in the formula below:
K′=DES(K, Rnd)
The complexity of the DES algorithms makes it impossible to discover a secret identification key K from session key K′ and random number Rnd.
This session key Kt′ can serve as an authentication certificate and be sent with random number Rnd1 and the data to be certified. However, to make it impossible to discover the keys, the DES algorithm is applied a second time. As can be seen in
The DES algorithm is once more applied to session key Kt′ and second random number Rnd2 by the card microprocessor to calculate a certificate C.
The data message is then sent to the target element accompanied by certificate C and random number Rnd1 both calculated by the card. Thus, the keys used, in particular secret identification key Kt, are not exchanged.
Authentication of the data message is effected by recalculating a certificate C′ from the same data. Central processing unit 1 has secret identification key Kt in its secured module MS0. Secured module MS0 can thus calculate session key Kt′ from identification key Kt and random number Rnd1.
Secured module MS0 still has the random number Rnd2 it previously supplied to the gambling card. From these two numbers, Rnd2 and Kt′, security module MS0 once again calculates a certificate C′, applying the DES algorithm a second time.
By checking that certificate C calculated by the card matches certificate C′ recalculated by its security module, the central unit can authenticate the data message received.
Note that session key Kt′ and certificate C are recalculated with each desired message certification. This prevents a pirate machine in the network from gaining access to the database or card memory by copying a previous certificate.
After making one or more of these checks, central unit 1 sends an approval signal which can be encrypted or encoded. With such an approval signal, the gambler can use his gambling card CJ1, make bets, effect gambling operations, and reload his card with his winnings.
In these first two embodiments, it has been shown that the card has an identification function, whereby its Id number enables central unit 1 or the gambling machine to recognize it and even recognize the gambler in certain client loyalty applications. Moreover, the card has a purse function, as the value unit balance is stored in the card and essentially known by the card, and the balance can be copied into central unit 1 for checking purposes.
According to a third embodiment, the purse function is no longer provided by the card but by the central processing unit itself. In this case the card has no data on the gambler's balance but only identification data such as identification number Id, several authentication keys Kta, Ktb, and Ktc, and possibly information on the gambler. The value unit balance data S1 are then stored only in database Bd of central processing unit 1. This value unit account is located for example in the database under identification number Id1.
In a gambling operation, identification number Id of card CJ1 is sent to central processing unit 1 through link means 123 of the network. The identification number Id can be sent directly by gambling machine 200 or its transcriber 210 if it has been memorized by the machine or its transcriber. Identification number Id can also be read from the card and sent to central processing unit 1 by transcriber 210 with each gambling operation.
After identification number Id has been checked, central processing unit 1 consults database Bd and sends the balance S1 of the value units allocated to card CJ1, to gambling machine 200.
Preferably, the data on the value unit balance are transferred with a certificate according to the data exchange securing protocol presented above.
One advantage of this third embodiment is that the sums bet are stored in central processing unit 1, which prevents any value from being memorized by the gambling cards.
According to this third embodiment, data representing the balance of the debited and/or credited values are stored in the database of the central processing means to prevent fraud from a chip card.
The check, in this third embodiment, is simply a check of the identification number Id of gambling card CJ1 with an identification key Kt1 read in database BD of central processing unit 1 to check the integrity of the card.
With these three embodiments of the invention, the integrity of gambling cards used in gambling machines can advantageously be monitored.
Moreover, by using data exchange securing means, the invention advantageously enables the integrity of a system formed by the gambling cards, the gambling machine network, and the database of the central processing unit to be checked, with the integrity of one of the three system elements, namely a gambling card or the network or the database, being checked with the aid of the other two elements.
The invention thus provides a system able to implement the method according to the invention.
A system of this type has a plurality of gambling machines, each machine being provided with a transcriber able to debit value units of a gambling card, the machines being networked with a central processing unit by link means.
According to the invention, the data representing gambling operations carried out with a chip card in a gambling machine are stored in the gambling card memory and, in parallel, in a database provided in the central processing unit.
The stored data are in particular card identification data and data on the balance or successive balances of value units debited and/or credited with the card.
Monitoring means such as a computer program authenticating the card identification number or comparing balance values stored in the card with those in the database or certifying the data exchanged are provided to check the integrity of the system.
Preferably, to secure the data exchanged over the network, a security module calculates an authentication certificate from secret data stored in the memory of the module and the monitoring means check that the authentication certificate calculated by the security module corresponds to the authentication certificate calculated by the gambling card or by another security module.
Such security modules MS0, MS1 can be disposed in gambling cards CJ1, CJ2, . . . , CJn, or in transcribers 10, 110, 210, 210′, 210″, 210′″, 310, gambling machines 200, 200′, 200″, and 200′″, of central processing unit 1, or even in the link means 123 of the network.
In particular, several security modules or means distributed in the network can be provided. Each transcriber 10, 210, 210′, 210″, 210′″ or each interface 11, 120, 120′, 120″, 120′″ has for example a security module so that data exchanges over link means 123 are accompanied by the authentication certificate. For example transmitting transcriber 10 adds to its message its certificate which is authenticated by the target transcriber 210 before being transmitted to the corresponding machine 200.
Other embodiments, advantages, and characteristics of the invention will appear to the individual skilled in the art, without departing from the framework of the claims below.
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There is nothing in Utah that bishop can/will also freeze?
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This is painful to admit, but I'm with Bishop on this one.
We also need to think about what we are doing. Are we going to have 44 memorials (and counting) on the Mall, one for each President?
Eisenhower has a Presidential Library; expand THAT and bring people to his home town. Put it in context.
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It's not much of a savings, but it is a start. Good work, Rep. Bishop,
keep it up!
This thing has turned into a huge cost over run on an edifice the family dislikes and is not needed. Reasonable Person has it right- put the memorial at the Eisenhower Library instead.
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Of course he wants to block a monument to President Eisenhower. Anyone who
would have the audacity to warn about the military-industrial complex is sure to
raise the ire of Representative Bishop. Coincidence?
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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in response to CHS 85, please note that Rob Bishop was elected to represent a
Congressional district where the largest three employers are all
defense-related. Hill AFB is not only the largest employer in his district, but
also the state. He'd be an utter fool not to be pro-defense. Sometimes
folks who live south of the refineries in SLC sometimes forget that. A lot of
us who support Rob Bishop up this way are really glad that he is pro-defense.
Not only because of jobs, but to keep you and me free. (No, that's not a
corny thing!). I thought the slight against Bishop was unfair and undeserved.
I'm glad he's pro-defense, and pro for cutting stupid waste out.
Some of the comments against elected officials are getting to be so personally nasty these days. Is this what we are becoming? Then you wonder why good people don't want to run? Have a reasoned debate, not ad hominem attacks just because a person is opposite politically than you are.
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So the Department of Defense is a job placement program now?
Yes, I know that the Department of DEFENSE keeps me free. I spent 20 years in the uniform of this great country to defend your freedom. I am well aware of what military service is.
I'm glad that the federal government employs so many good Utahns. One can be pro-defense and also be budget conscious. Mr. Bishop may be from your county (and the county where an ancestors settled), but his disdain for everything federal except defense is tiresome. There is more to the federal government than bullets, planes, ships, and tanks, and that's all he seems to care about.
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CHS 85 - THank you for your service as a Veteran. Now that you're
apparently retired after 20 years of service, I suppose that its ok to you for
those who remain in the military to have substandard training or equipment after
four years of Barack Obama and his slashing the military. Where have you been?
The military HAS been cut nearly one-trillion dollars over 10 years projected
from the time Obama took office, and that was BEFORE the so-called sequester
cuts which will hammer defense kick-in. Remember, under sequester, defense will
take a 40% cut (on top of the cuts already taken), whereas the rest of the
federal government will only take a measly 10% cut.
So Defense has given at the office. There reaches a point when we will become hollow, and like Great Britain. The once-greate military power who can't even build a submarine anymore.
THe problem is Entitlement SPending. And Obama and the Democrats have removed any discussion of even the most modest changes which would make a huge financial difference, from the table.
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28 million dollars in saleries from 1999 and nothing accomplished. Someone please tell me how to get a job on the Obama memorial and get paid for doing nothing for over 10 years. Come to think of it, that in itself would BE a good memorial to Obama.
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Memorials are something you spend money on when the economy is good and the
government is running a surplus. Not when the economy is in the tank and the
government is drowning in red ink.
Much like a household, when times are tough, you only buy the necessities. A memorial is not a necessity.
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Kazys Varnelis [CV] is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab. With Robert Sumrell, he runs the non-profit architectural collective AUDC.
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|A Modest Proposal for Social Networks or, How This Could be the Next Facebook
|The Rise of Network Culture
|Psychogeography and the End of Planning . Reyner Banham's Los Angeles. The Architecture of Four Ecologies
|Discussions 1 on Vimeo
|Post-Planetary Capital Symposium
|The Decade Ahead
|Strange but True (most of the Time): Architecture Between Research and Fiction
|The Centripetal City: Telecommunications, the Internet, and the Shaping of the Modern Urban Environment
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|Architecture, Network Culture + Minecraft
|While this colonization is still in its early stages, it is different from the suburban flight of decades earlier, when young parents fled a city consumed by crime and drugs. These days, young creatives are fleeing a city that has become too affluent.
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|MIT HTC Forum 2009
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|Syllabus for Network Culture. The History of the Contemporary
|On the Invasion of the Ukraine
|prada and the pleasure principle
|Philip Johnson's Empire
|We Cannot Not Know History
|On atemporality
|On Drupal, or Wither Web 2.0?
|On Informality
|Against Passwords
|network culture chart
|Everybody's a Critic
|Against Situationism
|Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects
|architecture for hertzian space
|Toward Publishing
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|A BBS Documentary, das Blinkenlights, Nova 3s + ASR33s
|Books and the Problem with their Future
|Network City 2010
|Is There Research in the Studio?
|Good riddance, Pritzker
|Games Without Frontiers
|A Decade in Retrospect
|Against Print
|Project Cybersyn
|A Brief History of Horizontality
|Interview with Joseph Tainter on Collapse
|Networked Publics: Publish
|lair of the chrome peacock
|Network Culture and Periodization, or, What Era Do We Live In?
|Goodbye, Capitalism
|On Hipster Urbanism
|2012 and Obama: More of the Same
|On Facebook Self-Portraits
|Book Updates
|Kazys Varnelis, 1917-2010
|All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace Episode 1
|Architects Without Architecture
|Apple's Missed Opportunity
|Studio 2013: Building Megalopolis
|Almost Anything
|the Post-Critical Collapse
|One Thing After Another
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|Detlef Mertins
|The Instagram Storm and the City
|ambience and attention
|GSAPP Books presents an Abecedary of Ink
|Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure
|The City Beyond Maps
|How Aerotropolis May Destroy Us Yet
|blog resolutions 2009
|where is the good new architecture?
|Goodbye Supermodernism
|Fear of Flying
|Network Architecture Lab Established
|A House for Pink Floyd
|Security Theater
|Netlab Conversations on the State of the World: Pedro Gadanho
|Tract Homes and Starchitecure
|Network Culture at Columbia Fall 2009
|Regarding the Euro
|Hong Kong, 2047
|Why Did Actor-Network Theory Run out of Steam?
|Terminal Condition. Spring 2012 Netlab Studio
|Infrastructural Fields
|An Anti Pragmatic-Manifesto by Mark Jarzombek
|archimaps: Floor plans for the Villa Virginia,...
|Empires a Film on Networks
|On Steve Jobs
|Uneven Growth Studio, 2047 (2014 GSAPP studio)
|Against New Media
|Peepers, Flashers, and Other Law Breakers
|What is the Future of Network Culture?
|Cathedrals of the Culture Industry


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Music Video: Davie Bowie "Where Are We Now?" by Tony OurslerMusic // Wednesday, January 09, 2013
And out of nowhere came the return of David Bowie. And of course, if Bowie is going to return at the ripe age of 66, he is going to come out with an artistically relevant release. And here it is, the music video for his new single, Where Are We Now?, featuring a great direction by artist Tony Oursler. Watch...
Music Video: Atoms For Peace "Judge Jury and Executioner"Music // Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Literally, Thom Yorke, Flea, and Nigel are getting the band back together. The little accidental supergroup, Atoms For Peace, are set to release a new album, Amok, on February 25 through XL Recordings, and to kick off the new year, the band just released a music for the previously toured track, "Judge Jury and Executioner". The video features artwork by audiovisual artist Tarik Barri. Enjoy.
The Works of Leif PodhajskyMusic // Thursday, January 03, 2013
Leif Podhajsky recently caught our attention after we saw his album cover art for his fellow Australians, Tame Impala. As an artist and creative director, his work explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experiences of life. By using these subjects, he attempts to inspire the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings.
Music Videos We Liked in 2012: The Presets "Promises"Music // Monday, December 31, 2012
This is a little bit like we are cheating because we just saw this video for the first time this weekend, but we quite enjoy a visual collage of randomness for The Presets track, Promises. Directed by Special Problems, you get a hyper-active tour of what the world looks like if you did a really fast Tumblr search in motion. And that is sort of 2012 summed up...
Music Videos We Liked in 2012: "Paradise" by Wild NothingMusic // Sunday, December 30, 2012
We found ourselves enjoying simpler, well-executed music videos this year, and although we might have wanted an excuse to get Michelle Williams onto the website this year, but we enjoyed her role in the video for Paradise by Wild Nothing. Directed by Matt Amato, the video features airports, waterfalls, planes, and a good haircut.
Music Videos We Liked in 2012: Modeselektor + Thom Yorke "This"Music // Saturday, December 29, 2012
Okay, we all in agreement that puppets and puppeteering is a little creepy? Of course, I'm going by the Thom Yorke / Modeselektor version of puppeteering, and this brilliantly bizarre video from FutureDeluxe and Andrew Jones for the track "This" that was a standout for us in 2012. Not sure if it is the puppet or puppeteer that takes over and goes beyond the call of reality in this one, but aroudn the 3 minute mark, the world takes a turn.
Music Videos We Liked in 2012: "Nightlife" by Emily Kai BockMusic // Thursday, December 27, 2012
What we wrote on November 22: Wow. We don't know why we became so transfixed with this video, how we couldn't dare take our eyes off of it, but Emily Kai Bock's Nightlife video for musician Sebastien Schuller is one of the better ones we have seen all year. You don't need a big budget, some grand arching storyline, just an expert idea of light and mood. Somehow, we are either excited about our trip to Miami in two weeks, or terrified. Stunning simplicity at work.
Music Videos We Liked in 2012: Grizzly Bear "Yet Again"Music // Monday, December 24, 2012
In our opinion, the new Grizzly Bear LP, Shields, was one of the best of 2012, and "Yet Again" one of the best tracks on said album. The track just got a wonderful video treatment from director Emily Kai Bock, following an ice skater's serene yet imperfect routine that descends into a bit of chaos and anger. Like the song, well done.
Music Videos We Liked in 2012: Bonne 'Prince' Billy "I See A Darkness"Music // Sunday, December 23, 2012
It was odd enough to see that Bonnie Prince Billy rework his 1999 masterpiece, I See A Darkness as an upbeat country folk singalong, but it was even more odd to see Billy's eyes go googly in this seemingly simple video. But director Ben Berman turns what appears to be a classic black and white shoot into a bit of mysterious haunted house of fun loving characters.
ESPO for Kurt VileMusic // Saturday, December 22, 2012
In promotion for fellow Philadelphia resident musician, Kurt Vile's newest album, Steve Powers aka ESPO, has created a mural in the City of Brotherly Love. The album titled "Waking On a Pretty Daze" will incorporate artwork from this mural into it's packaging (Good choice Kurt Vile!) and will be released on Matador Records. Check out the mural off Front Street in Philly to see it in person.


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nice flow by rozzayy!
Ross is whack
fucking dope !! game is best rapper alive !! fuck all haters !!!
Yeah, definitely should've left this alone. Original was way better.
too bad the game isnt the same game, or maybe he is the same and isnt making anything new.
Ross i gonna get you! You stole my name, my identity, my money.
this is indeed the same track that was on trae tha truths album "street king" on the song "iam the streets" feat. game,rick ross and lloyd singing the hook. that album was released just last year too
wack william fucked up the song
Half of the comments below me are about how this beat was previously used by Trae the Truth. I listen to the radio every day and I never heard any songs by Trae. So i'm not sure about that...
that is trae song and he was banned from the radio in texas i dont no how far up north you will here trae but u need to get on the truth but trae and game always using different people beats for mixtapes
good shit :)
Recycled from Trae the truth album , he took trae off therefore this is a old song with a different hook
same here!
thank you, i thought i was one of the only listeners that noticed that
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Greens, rice, fish...and Sean Penn: Cooking for Iranian New Year with filmmaker Marjan Tehrani
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Marjan Tehrani is a documentary filmmaker. Born and bred in the United States, Marjan had an American mother and an Iranian father. Her latest film, Arusi Persian Wedding, takes her back to her Persian roots and tells the story of Marjan's brother taking his American wife to Iran to have a traditional Persian wedding.
When The Takeaway's Femi Oke went to meet Marjan Tehrani it was just a few days before the Persian New Year. So as they chatted Marjan showed Femi how Iranian families celebrate their new year, talked about growing up half Iranian and why Sean Penn is on her fridge!
Sabzi Polo Mahi (rice with green herbs and fish)
Basmati rice
Fresh white fish
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Salt and pepper
Chop parsley, cilantro and scallions. Cook basmati rice. In a saucepan, add rice and mix in chopped parsley, cilantro and scallions. Dissolve saffron in water and add to rice with salt and pepper. Cook rice until the bottom of the saucepan is layered with golden crunchy rice. Don't burn it--just make it crunchy! Steam the fish with the seasoning. Serve fish on a bed of rice with a side helping of plain yogurt.
Students charting the course
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Studies show less than half of the students in New York City high schools graduate on time. And many think that New York City is a rough place to go to school. The Takeaway invites two students from Democracy Prep Charter School in Harlem who think otherwise. Daniel Clark Jr., a seventh grader, and Nia Hill-Mims, an eighth grader talk about what it's like to go to charter school in New York City.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in times of economic crisis
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Today American consumers have nearly $1 trillion of outstanding credit card debt. A quarter of all homeowners are paying more on their mortgage than their home is worth. And unemployment nationwide has reached 8.1 percent. Does this economic crisis put the American dream at risk? Many may wonder that, as a nation, have we so corrupted the fundamental ideals of the American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that we instead find ourselves living through the American nightmare? Joining The Takeaway to help answer this is David Kamp. He's a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and has written the article Rethinking The American Dream. Kamp joins us for the first in a series of conversations about what the American dream means in this day and age.
Jimmy Fallon's week in review
Friday, March 06, 2009
Jimmy Fallon now sits in the throne of late-night giants Conan O'Brien and David Letterman, but it's been a tough week for the former Saturday Night Live star. Troy Patterson, the TV critic for Slate, reviews the first week of NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
Listen to the full Takeaway segment with Troy Patterson here.
Takeaway guest host Farai Chideya on the art of staying connected to her audience
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Your food may be organic, but that doesn't mean it's safe
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Over the past few years a rash of food-related illnesses caused by everything from tomatoes to spinach to peanut butter has sparked nationwide concern over food safety. Conventional wisdom has always said you can assure your food is safe by buying organic. But New York Times reporter Kim Severson did some digging and she found that organic certification has nothing to do with food safety.
Listen to the full Takeaway segment with Kim Severson here
Environmentally friendly solar flashlight brings light to Africa's poorest villages
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Bent, a former American diplomat and Houston oilman, is CEO and founder of SunNight Solar, a company that has created solar powered flashlights that they are now spreading throughout the world by way of private donors, the United Nations and organizations such as Direct Relief International.
The Takeaway ran into Bent at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City on February 27th, where he happily pulled apart his product for us. The flashlights, the shape of which reminded me of a Pantene-Pro V shampoo bottle, are made of LED lights and a plastic case. They nab their power from three recyclable batteries that are re-charged by a solar panel that graces the side of the flashlight. In total, the panel provides power for up to 2,000 nights, and the batteries last about two years.
Bent was at the conference to participate in an expert panel titled, "Green Design For Good." When asked about using plastic in his product (a material that doesn't scream sustainability) Bent replied, "I'm willing to live with ABS plastic because I can get people to read." The former Navy man's flashlight do more than help people read. They cut down on the need for kerosene lanterns, which improves lung health, as well as allow villages and refugee camps to function safely after dark. Women are protected from sexual assault, refugees can use the lamps to deter thieves, and farmers can keep away wild animals.
Bent sat down with us post-conference to dish on how his flashlights promote gender equality and safety around the world, and why pink is his favorite color.
Ypsilanti, anyone? Guest host WDET news program director Jerome Vaughn demystifies Detroit pronunciation for The Takeaway
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Channeling Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke for our Takeaway red carpet Oscar questions
Friday, February 20, 2009
Have a question for an Oscar nominee? Place your vote in our red-carpet poll here.
Mark Bittman is thinking outside the (cereal) box for breakfast
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Mark Bittman had one thought on breakfast: YAWNNN! So he decided to shake things up and started serving up breakfast items you would more closely associate with dinner. Things like black olives, miso, dried tomatoes, bok choy, and roasted carrots. Mark Bittman joins us with a stirring defense for serving wheat berries with soy sauce.
Listen to the full Takeaway segment with Mark Bittman here
Take Two: Soap operas about safe sex...on a cellphone near you
Friday, February 13, 2009
Today in Take Two, a new video series where we go behind-the-scenes with The Takeaway's hosts, John Hockenberry pulls out his iPhone to watch a little safe-sex soap opera, while WNYC healthcare reporter Fred Mogul explores some of this new project's finer points.
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More from Bill Weihl, Google's Green Energy Czar
Thursday, February 05, 2009
How much energy does a Google search take?
The future of geothermal energy
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Google's search: It's all about energy
Thursday, February 05, 2009
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The little black box that reveals your energy-guzzling ways
Thursday, February 05, 2009
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For the algae company Bionavitas, one problem solved for making biofuels
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
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John Hockenberry, powered by biofuel
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Takeaway is on a Power Trip, taking an in-depth look at the future of energy: technologies, ideas, innovators, and your stories about the one thing that you won't give up to save energy.
Welcome to the World Economic Forum, please leave a message
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A message from the welcoming committee at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
For the actual news from Davos, listen to our segment with the New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin.
President Obama has pledged a renewed America... What changes have you been inspired to make?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Behind the scenes with the first gay and lesbian band to march in a presidential inauguration parade
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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