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AI Program Texts Its Way to Turing Test Award
Researchers at the University of Reading in England awarded the 18th annual Loebner Prize Sunday. The competition tests the conversational capabilities of artificial intelligence using text messages, an examination known as the "Turing Test." The winner of the bronze medal -- the highest award given to date -- was Fred Roberts of Hamburg, Germany, whose Elbot program was pegged as the best of ...
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"Anyone want my spare key?"
Eurogamer's computer and video game discussion forum
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Intelligent InSites Receives Venture Capital Funding
FARGO, N.D.----Intelligent InSites, Inc., announced today that Arthur Ventures, a Fargo-based venture capital group, has chosen the company to be the first major investment from its initial $11.3 million dollar growth fund.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Trips up Community's Web Site
The release of a new version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite hit a snag Monday when Web-site problems made...
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OpenOffice 3.0 Released, for Mac
The OpenOffice.org Community announced Monday the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, a free office software suite designed as an...
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Word and the Anonymous Commentator
A friend in the editing business recently passed along this Microsoft Word head-scratcher.
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Sify Technologies wins brandon hall excellence in learning award for third consecutive year
Chennai, October 13 : Sify Technologies Limited, a leader in Consumer Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities, announced today its eLearning division's winning the coveted Brandon Hall Award for the third consecutive year.
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Battlestar Galactica case mod adds a touch of class and excitement to your work day
Filed under: Desktops Though there are few things as potentially cringe-worthy as a Battlestar Galactica-themed case mod (or toaster , or pumpkin ), we must admit that this project is pretty impressive. Going beyond the realm of the expected (landing bay, running lights, engine pods and a suitable sci-fi paint job), this custom build rocks an array of ambitious features, including ...
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OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...
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SearchBiz: Online Ads & The Economy; Yandex Postpones IPO; Google Apps In DC & Vulnerabilities; MySpace Offers ...
Many in the search industry expect online advertising to take a smaller hit (if any) from the struggling economy than other types of advertising. But that view isn’t shared by all. According to AdAge today, some analysts think online advertising is as vulnerable as other sectors: “Failed banks … job losses and lower consumer confidence now [...] ...
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Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except that interference just doesn't seem to be the hurdle I expect needs jumping. ...
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Economics of open source remains an academic challenge
Explain the economics of open source, especially as it relates to international trade. Give us charts, graphs, and especially models. We like models. Then just wait for the phone call from Scandinavia.
ZDNet |
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Site creator Wix announces funding, subscriptions
The "premium" service is geared toward small businesses that can't shell out the cash for a full-out Web site construction.
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Korea's Internet Suicide Pandemic [Sad Things]
Oh dear. Last week we told you about that actor who killed himself in Korea partly in response to some homophobic online attacks. And now, when looking at a larger trend of suicide in that country,...
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Silverlight Reaches the Terrible Twos
News Analysis. Two-year-olds can be mighty cranky. Adobe Flash is sure to get the brunt of Silverlight 2.0's rebelliousness. Can Flash take it?
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Company gives computers to its employees -- for keeps
Florida-based Citrix Systems offers a $2,100 stipend.
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AMD’s Grose to head The Foundry Co.
The person hired to head the new Advanced Micro Devices-back computer chip manufacturing company is a familiar face in Albany, N.Y. (AMD)
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Google, Microsoft spark interest in modular datacenters
Interest in modular datacenters is growing, fueled by high-profile endorsements from Microsoft and Google . But the model raises new management concerns, and efficiency claims may be exaggerated. Modular, containerized datacenters being sold by vendors such as IBM , Sun , and Rackable Systems fit storage and hundreds, sometimes thousands of servers into one large shipping ...
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More than 30 HPD officers punished in payroll probe
More than 30 Houston police officers face suspension or a reprimand after an internal affairs investigation concluded that they worked at part-time jobs while still on the clock for the city.
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What will it be?
Throughout the weekend, rumours were rife on the Web that when Apple unveils its new notebook line-up on Tuesday, it will announce that some, at least of the new portable Mac range, will shift from an Intel chipset to NVIDIA’s competing platform — probably the MCP79.
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Circuit City, Wal-Mart agree to sell AT&T U-verse
AT&T Inc. has reached sales distribution agreements with Circuit City and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to begin selling U-verse TV and U-verse High Speed Internet at more than 600 retail stores this month. (CC) (WMT) (T)
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INFO-TECH
OUTLOOK: Captive BPOs turning attractive for services cos More buys on the lines of TCS-Citi unit deal seen. Bangalore, Oct. 13 The next 12 to 18 months could see large Indian IT services providers making bids for captive business process outsourcing centres, the prelude to which was the recent ...
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Hacker McKinnon's mum squares up to US
THE US MILITARY believes it will soon get its hands on Gary McKinnon, the hapless British hacker who made a mockery of it while it was planning its invasion of Iraq in 2003. But it hadn't reckoned on Janis Sharp, Gary's mum.
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NIIT to bid for more e-learning schemes
NIIT Limited is planning to participate in the bidding process for implementing computer education schemes at 20,000 schools, tenders for which are yet to be called for by six state governments, NIIT president (school learning solutions), L Balasubramanian, said.
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Call of Duty: World at War Launches Multiplayer Beta for the Xbox 360
Oct 13th, 2008 - The dogs of war are being unleashed today, as Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and developer Treyarch announced the launch of the multiplayer beta for Call of Duty: World at War on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
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