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Submission + - Computers to mark English essays

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digitig

on Friday September 25, 2009 @06:05AM

digitig writes: "According to The Guardian newspaper, computers are to be used in the UK to mark English examination essays. According to the article, "Pearson, the American-based parent company of Edexcel, is to use computers to "read" and assess essays for international English tests in a move that has fuelled speculation that GCSEs and A-levels will be next". Can computers now understand all the subtle nuances of language, or are people going to have to learn an especially bland form of English to pass exams?"

Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server 158

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 15, 2009 @01:52PM from the because-you-can dept.

miller60 writes "A Japanese company called Freebit has released ServersMan, an app that turns the iPhone into a web server. It debuted in Japan in February, has now been launched in the US, and is being touted as a 'Personal Data Center.' Freebit also has a video with additional information on server-enabling your iPhone. 'Once the app is installed, PCs on the internet can access the iPhone to upload or download files through a browser or they can use the webDAV protocol. If the PC and the iPhone are on the same network, the PC can connect directly. If they are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection.'"

Comment Computational Journalism (Score 1) 91

by Hoenikker11 on Monday January 05, 2009 @01:41PM (#26331979) Attached to: Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism

Computational Journalism is much broader than just data-mining. At Georgia Tech I taught courses in the area in 2007 and 2008 which covered everything from mobile newsgathering, to information visualization, automatic content analysis, social computing, storytelling and authorship, aggregation, summarization, information mashups, and consumption interfaces. The bigger question is: how can computation help in every aspect of journalism: gathering, sensemaking, authoring, and dissemination, while still maintaining the values and ethics of good journalism. Anyone interested in delving deeper into this should watch the videos from the Symposium on Computation and Journalism that we organized at Georgia Tech in 2008.

OpenSSH Releases Version 5.0 41

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 04, 2008 @11:16AM from the latest-bits dept.

os2man lets us know that OpenSSH version 5.0 has been released. The mirrors are linked from the top page. "OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the ssh protocol. It was created as an open source alternative to the proprietary Secure Shell software suite offered by SSH Communications Security. OpenSSH is available for almost any Operating System."

New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone 404

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 03, 2008 @01:31PM from the i-didn't-do-it-nobody-saw-me-you-can't-prove-anything dept.

esocid writes "In a modern equivalent of flashing your headlights to warn other motorists of police speed traps, you can now warn fellow drivers with a cell phone or personal digital assistant about speed traps, red-light cameras, and other threats to ticket-free driving. And as you approach a known threat, you'll get an audio alert on your mobile device. The developer of Trapster, Pete Tenereillo, said the system, which requires punching in a few keys such as '#1' to submit information to Trapster's database, should comply with laws banning talking on cell phones. The free service can automatically detect location using mobile devices' GPS capabilities or tap their Wi-Fi and get location from a database run by Skyhook Wireless. Police officials that Tenereillo has talked to haven't complained about the service because it inevitably encourages drivers to slow down."

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