Turing apology
The British government finally apologized for the way it treated Alan Turing 60 years ago: see Gordon Brown’s statement in the UK Telegraph.
September 11th, 2009 · Tags: Articles
Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab, on 6th sense computing.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. A video of Pattie Maes speaking at the latest TED conference about a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. See a video along with more about TED at this URL:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
June 2nd, 2009 · Tags: Articles
IBM “Watson” System to Challenge Humans at Jeopardy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e22ufcqfTs
IBM unveiled details of an advanced computing system that will be able to compete with humans on Jeopardy!, Americas favorite quiz show.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=mainframes_and_supercomputers&articleId=9132165&taxonomyId=67&intsrc=kc_top
April 27th, 2009 · Tags: Articles, Events
Antikythera mechanism rebooted!
Tony Caldenaro pointed out this link showing how a British computer expert and engineer reconstructed the 2000-yr. old Antikythera “computer,” which was used, among other purposes, for predicting the dates of Olympic games.
December 19th, 2008 · Tags: Articles, Uncategorized
Hands-On Learning
Professor Dominique Thiebaut’s CSC 103 class was recently featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette when they disassembled some 15 defunct computers:
http://tango.csc.smith.edu/dftwiki/images/0/07/GazetteArticle08.pdf
October 16th, 2008 · Tags: Articles, Events
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
From the NY Times, “How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers”:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
“The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems with overly optimistic assumptions and to feed them oversimplified data. This kept them from sounding the alarm early enough.”
September 24th, 2008 · Tags: Articles