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Submission + - AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats

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jefu

on Wednesday October 04, 2006 @12:15PM

jefu writes: "According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press (registration required and all that) in order to detect threats to the United States. While the article says there are restrictions on doing this kind of monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US. (No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles written in the US and published abroad.) This is as yet experimental."

Submission + - Books

Submitted by on Sunday August 27, 2006 @02:22PM

jefu writes: In a /. story today on advertisement supported texts, there was a discussion of the expense of textbooks. There may be an alternative : Bookmooch is a book trading site where you can send books you have to someone who wants them, and "mooch" books from someone who has them. Total cost: Postage. There are already a good number of technical and text books listed, as well as a wide variety of other titles. No guarantee that you'll find what you need — but if a lot of students started using the site, the chances would surely improve.

Submission + - Poincare Again

Submitted by on Friday August 25, 2006 @06:40PM

jefu writes: There have been a few recent Slashdot articles on the Fields Medal in mathematics, and more specifically on the Poincaré conjecture. The August 28 New Yorker has an article on the conjecture and on two major figures involved : Gregory Perelman and Shing-Tung Yao. This article focusses more on the people and process than on the mathematics and is quite a good read.

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