Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show
San Diego, CA, October 30, 2008–UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
“We built our key duplication software system to show people that [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show [Jacobs School of Engineering: News & Events]
Posted in My Thoughts on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes – opinion – 27 October 2008 – New Scientist
Posted in My Thoughts on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For this week’s issue of New Scientist I edited a review of The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman, which tells the story of the great moon hoax of 1835. Read the review here.
This got me thinking about other great scientific hoaxes in the past. After doing a bit of digging, I was amazed [...]
Chandrayaan-I launched successfully-India-The Times of India
Posted in My Thoughts on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SRIHARIKOTA: Carrying over a billion hopes, India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I began its historic journey to the moon today when an indigenou
PSLV-C11 takes off carrying Chandrayaan-1 at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. (AFP Photo)
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sly developed rocket placed the spacecraft
into the Transfer Orbit “perfectly”. ( Watch ) India becomes the sixth nation, after the [...]
Foreign Policy In Focus | World Beat | Vol. 3, No. 42 | Art of Torture
Posted in My Thoughts on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Art of Torture
The pictures from Abu Ghraib have achieved iconic status. The hooded man on the box, his arms outstretched, has superceded the image of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue. The Bush administration will forever be remembered as “the administration that tortured.”
Iconic images have a concentrated power. The Abu Ghraib pictures convey, in visual [...]
Machine takes on man at mass Turing Test – Times Online
Posted in My Thoughts on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our reporter was among the judges struggling to tell the difference between human and computer-programmed conversation
(Michael Crabtree/The Times)
Will Pavia tries to work out whether he’s talking to a human being or a computer
Will Pavia
Eugene Goostman is a 13-year-old boy from Odessa, Ukraine, the son of a talk-show host and a gynaecologist, who keeps a guinea [...]
U.S. Allegedly Listened In on Calls of Americans Abroad – washingtonpost.com
Posted in My Thoughts on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is looking into allegations that a U.S. spy agency improperly eavesdropped on the phone calls of hundreds of Americans overseas, including aid workers and U.S. military personnel talking to their spouses at home.
The allegations, by two former military intercept officers assigned to the National Security Agency, include claims [...]
‘Intelligent’ computers put to the test | Technology | The Observer
Posted in My Thoughts on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Programmers try to fool human interrogators
David Smith, technology correspondent
The Observer,
Sunday October 5 2008
Article history
Hal, the supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Photograph: RGA
Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment [...]
Ig Nobel awards: Irrelevant scientific research honoured – Telegraph
Posted in My Thoughts on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists who unlocked the inner secrets of dog fleas, crisps and tangled string swept the tongue-in-cheek annual Ig Nobel Prizes.
Last Updated: 12:13PM BST 03 Oct 2008
Toshiyuki Nakagaki [centre], of Hokkaido University, and fellow researchers sing their Ig Nobel Prize acceptance speech in three-part harmony , after they were awarded the Cognitive Science Prize Photo: [...]
Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble? | LiveScience
Posted in My Thoughts on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Clara Moskowitz, Staff Writer
posted: 30 September 2008 06:48 am ET
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This Chandra X-ray photograph shows Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short), the youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/UMass Amherst/M.D.Stage et al.
Mugshots of some of the two dozen supernova explosions captured by NASA’s Swift satellite. Credit: NASA
If the [...]
