Apologies for the long time between posts – life has been busy! Here are the accumulated links of significance for the past month – hope you enjoy them.
- AI
- A Turing Test for Computer Game Bots
- Discovery Brings New Type of Fast Computers Closer to Reality
- Going with the Flow: Learning from Fish Could Prevent Crowd Panic
- ‘Intelligent Car’ Able to Learn From Owner’s Driving and Warn in Case of Accident Hazard
- Japanese Researchers Downplay Super CPU Effect
- Police Sketch Artist Evolves
- Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler Has Consequences
- Researchers Using Parallel Processing Computing Could Save Thousands By Using an Xbox
- UIC Researchers Probe Computer ‘Commonsense Knowledge’
- Archive
- Television Treasure: Art Stolen By Nazis Found On German ‘Antiques Roadshow’
- The Trial: Fight for Kafka’s Papers Winds through Israeli Courts
- Education
- A European Project Will Raise Young People’s Interest in Studying for Scientific Degrees
- Computer Science Lacks Women, Minorities
- Hewlett-Packard Funds Purdue Work to Recruit, Retain Engineering Students, Develop New Teaching Model
- Industry Body Forming to Address IT Graduate Skills
- FOI
- Humanities Computing
- 10 Technologies We Stole From the Animal Kingdom
- Aid Agencies Turn to Open-Source Software
- Amazon agrees to Kindle suit settlement
- Artificial Intelligence Helps Diagnose Cardiac Infections
- Bird’s Eye View: Camera-Laden Albatrosses Snap Spectacular Shots
- Bird-Watching Turns to Technology
- By 2040 You Will Be Able to Upload Your Brain…
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
- Danish Marine Research: Helping Porpoises Swim Off The Endangered List
- Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs
- Findings Could Lead to Improved Lip-Reading Training for the Deaf
- Nanotech Could Make Humans Immortal by 2040, Futurist Says
- Recession hasn’t slowed global Internet traffic
- Researchers of the University of Granada (UGR) and Telefónica I+D Design Rooms With Sensors That Help Dependent People
- Role for Robots: Helping Elderly at Home
- Rome Was Built in a Day, With Hundreds of Thousands of Digital Photos
- Software predicts which songs will be hits
- Solar power for wildlife research
- Stopping Investment in Sudan: Activists Use Tools of Capitalism to Fight Darfur Genocide
- Tech firms’ ideas on charging readers online
- This Is Your Lifelog
- Too Scary to Be Real, Research Looks to Quantify Eeriness in Virtual Characters
- Misc
- Net Neutrality
- Amendment Would Deny Protections to Bloggers
- AT&T Wireless CEO Hints at ‘Managing’ iPhone Data Usage
- FCC chairman says `open Internet’ rules are vital
- FTC: Bloggers, testimonials need better disclosure
- License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?
- Skype founders file lawsuit against eBay
- Survey: US residents don’t want targeted ads
- Rights
- Border agents limit confiscation of laptops
- Digital Library Controversy: Google Gives Ground at EU Hearing
- EFF Supports JUSTICE Bill to Reform the USA PATRIOT Act and Repeal Telecom Immunity
- EU adviser: Google ads don’t infringe trademarks
- F.T.C. Proposes Problematic Regulation of Online Free Speech
- Fact Check on FOX News’ Misleading PATRIOT Act Reporting
- FBI’s Data-Mining System Sifts Airline, Hotel, Car-Rental Records
- High Cost Of Immigration: German Minister Says New US Entry Fee ‘Not Logical’
- Improving DMCA Takedowns at Blogger, Flickr
- It’s Still A Duck: Court Re-Affirms That First Sale Doctrine Can Apply to “Licensed” Software
- Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore
- Man pleads guilty in Vt. in border child porn case
- National Coalition of Authors Urge Rejection of Google Book Search Deal
- Ninth Circuit Holds Disloyal Computer Use Is Not A Crime
- Pedestrian Crossings Could Be Monitored
- RIAA Asks Schoolkids To Assist With Propaganda
- Round-Up of Reactions to Yesterday’s PATRIOT Vote
- TECH CHRONICLES / Google’s 2 concessions try to calm book-deal turmoil
- U.S. as Traffic Cop in Web Fight
- US Justice Dept wants changes to Google book deal (AFP)
- Venezuela to outlaw violent video games, toys
- Who Controls Data About Public Transportation?
- You Bought It, You Own It: MDY v. Blizzard Appealed
- Robotics
- Robot Fish Makes Waves at Bath
- Robots in Education
- Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s Improved Robotic Hand Captures Top Award
- Security
- AFOSR Funds Super-Fast, Secure Computing
- Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections
- Cybersecurity – or lack thereof – alarms experts
- Cybersecurity starts at home and in the office
- Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool in settlement
- Homeland Security to hire up to 1K cyber experts
- How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You Do Online (and What Social Networks Are Doing to Help Them)
- Microsoft blasts Google over Chrome Frame plug-in
- New Cookie Technologies: Harder to See and Remove, Widely Used to Track You
- New Digital Security Program Doesn’t Protect as Promised
- New phishing attack chats up victims
- NY Times warns of rogue antivirus on Web site
- Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns
- UK’s Centre for Cyber-Security Opens at Queen’s
- What Information is “Personally Identifiable”?
- Semantic Web
- After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software
- Google Works on a Different Web
- Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries
- Spanish Scientists Develop the First Intelligent Financial Search Engine
- Social Networking
- Applications make Twitter a more powerful tool
- Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?
- EU Funding ‘Orwellian’ Artificial Intelligence Plan to Monitor Public for ‘Abnormal Behaviour’
- Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool in settlement
- Hey, TI, Leave Those Kids Alone
- How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You Do Online (and What Social Networks Are Doing to Help Them)
- Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?
- London court uses Twitter to serve injunction on impostor
- Making Internet Publishing Pay: German Media Mogul Takes On Google News
- Man Arrested for Twittering Goes to Court, EFF Has the Documents
- Me, me, me! 80% of Twitterers tweet mostly about themselves
- Photos of mullets, leotards return to haunt online
- Privacy Plug-In Fakes Out Facebook
- Project ‘Gaydar’
- Researchers Find a New Way to Attack the Cloud
- Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns
- Study: 54% of companies ban Facebook, Twitter at work
- The Facebook divorce
- Twitter changes terms – in plain language
- Watch What You Tweet
- Web software gleans data on kid chats
- Technology
- 3-D TV is coming soon to your living room
- ‘A Fatal Development’: Energy Expert Ridicules German Court Ruling
- Accurate Predictions in a Limited Calculation Time
- Amazon is Walmart of Web
- Big Japanese brands readying 3-D flat-screen TVs
- Bio-Computing a Major Focus of 22nd Annual SC Conference
- Calif. advances tough TV energy standards
- Capsules for Self-Healing Circuits
- Chinese propaganda films a hit with DVD pirates
- Chinese solar plant expected to be the biggest
- Code Breakthrough Delivers Safer Computing
- Electronics ‘Missing Link’ United With Rest of the Family
- Exposing the ORM Cache
- Get all Americans online, panel says
- Graphitic Memory Techniques Advance at Rice
- Greener Computing in the Cloud
- Hands-on: Microsoft’s Office Web Apps
- IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service
- MIT Creates Nanotube Process That Could Shrink, Speed Chips
- Online services let cities bypass the mailbox
- Open-Source Camera Could Revolutionize Digital Photography
- Supercomputers Often Run Outdated Software
- The Future of Energy: A Power Station in Your Own Basement
- ‘Time Telescope’ Could Boost Web
- Women in Computing