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The Cognitive Age
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: May 2, 2008
If you go into a good library, you will find thousands of books on globalization. Some will laud it. Some will warn about its dangers. But they’ll agree that globalization is the chief process driving our age. Our lives are being transformed by the increasing movement of [...]
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Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
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Daphne Koller’s award-winning work in artificial intelligence has had commercial impact.
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: May 3, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of [...]
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April 19, 2008
The Wikipedia, Knowledge Preservation and DNA
I had an interesting thought today about the long-term preservation and transmission of human knowledge.
The Wikipedia may be on its way to becoming the one of the best places in which to preserve knowledge for future generations. But this is just the beginning. What if we could encode [...]
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Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime
By Benjamin J. Romano
Seattle Times technology reporter
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Looking for answers on Microsoft’s COFEE device
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers [...]
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Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013
Written by Sarah Perez / April 20, 2008 9:01 PM / 25 Comments
A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This increase will include more spending on [...]
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Andy Oram
Book review: “The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It)”
Most of us in the computer field have heard more than our fill about the free software movement, the copyright wars, the scourge of spyware and SQL injection attacks, the Great Firewall of China, and other battles for the control of our [...]
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Book review: “The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It)”
Most of us in the computer field have heard more than our fill about the free software movement, the copyright wars, the scourge of spyware and SQL injection attacks, the Great Firewall of China, and other [...]
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Posted in Free, Future on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
WIRED MAGAZINE: 16.03
Tech Biz : IT
How Can Directory Assistance Be Free?
By Chris Anderson 02.25.08 | 12:00 AM
AT&T and its competitors rake in $7 billion a year from directory assistance, charging 50 cents to $1.75 per call. Google, on the other hand, offers its automated GOOG-411 service gratis. How can the search juggernaut afford not to [...]
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The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?
Douglas Heingartner 03.08.01 | 2:00 AM
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Matrix may be the future of virtual reality, but researchers say the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving.
More than 400 scientists gathered at the Global Grid Forum this week to discuss what may be the Internet’s [...]
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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted
Ozzie: Microsoft Needs Yahoo for Web, Advertising Plan
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie today attempted to lay a case for why buying Yahoo is integral to Microsoft’s plans.
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MicrosoftChief Software Architect Ray Ozzie today attempted [...]
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