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 In the January issue of the AI Expert newsletter, Jocelyn Paine celebrates the 50th anniversary of the famed Darmouth Summer Project of 1956, convened by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nicholas Rochester, and Claude Shannon, and collects from web records the thoughts and reminiscences of 89 AI luminaries from the 1920s to the present. Also linked are numerous papers pegged as milestones of the craft ý all in all, a must-have reference to the world of AI, as represented in web-accessible materials.
Apple Drops Price Of MacBook Air
The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive.
Google Employees Warned Of Data Breach At Benefits Company
As a precautionary measure, the company is offering to enroll affected employees in Kroll's IDTheftSmart identity and credit protection program for a year. Interview With 'Net Pioneer Vint Cerf
Microsoft is working with Circuit City to offer a consumer software subscription service that includes its Office, Windows Live OneCare, Messenger, and Photo Gallery applications and services. 'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals
With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
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An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time
Tomas G. Rokicki
Making a slow program fast can lead to both joy and frustration. But sometimes a new approach yields amazing improvements.
Algorithm Accuracy and Artificial Vision
Deirdre Blake
Researchers at Ohio State have found a way to determine, in advance, which algorithms are best in a particular circumstance; a researcher in Spain has developed an improved artificial vision edge-detector technique. (MP3, 3:39 mins.)
Google's Summer of Code: Part I
the DDJ staff
Google's Summer of Code resulted in thousands of lines of code. Here are some of the students who participated.
Stanford Team Wins DARPA Grand Challenge
Jonathan Erickson
Mike Montemerlo, software lead for the Stanford University Racing Team, describes some of the challenges the team faced in winning the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles. (MP3 audio, 3:03 mins.)
First Steps
Ed Nisley
Lego Mindstorms provides a stepping stone into the world of robotics.
Predictive Analytics: Looking for Patterns & Trends
Jonathan Erickson
Jon Otterstatter, Chief Technology Officer at SPSS Inc., explains what predictive analytics is and how it is used in the real world. (MP3 Audio, 3:43 mins.)
Computers and Poker? You Bet
Jonathan Erickson
Jonathan Schaeffer, leader of the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group, discusses the high-stakes world of computers and poker. (MP3 audio)
Book Review: Higher Order Perl
Ken Williams
Mark Jason Dominus has written a book that reminds the reader that no matter how foreign and weird we may think the other camp is (and rest assured, they probably think the same of us), we can learn an awful lot by practicing thinking the way they do.
Eclipse: Adapting and Updating an IDE
Mary Kroening
When it's time to update an IDE, Eclipse 3 may be the way to go. Here's one vendor's story.
AI Expert Newsletter - May 2005
Dennis Merritt
We've devoted this month's issue to spreadsheets and AI, including my Model Master, a program which uses Prolog to reduce spreadsheet errors; neural nets and cellular automata in Excel; notes on Mike Kassof about his work on logical spreadsheets; and Amzi!'s ARulesXL, which by embedding logical rules in Excel, makes possible apps that are not practical using Excel on its own.
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