From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 09:56:25 PST
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>Smart Software Gives Surveillance
>Eyes a 'Brain'
>KurzweilAI.net Feb. 12, 2004
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>University of Rochester researchers
>have developed "smart camera"
>software that monitors security
>cameras for such things as a gun in
>an airport or the absence of a piece
>of equipment in a lab. University of
>Rochester press release...
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>Photosynthesis inspires
>molecular-assembly process
>EE Times Feb. 12, 2004
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>Nanotechnologists have recently
>succeeded in building molecular
>systems based on highly efficient
>versions of the molecular "machine"
>that plants use to turn sunlight
>into energy. For example, Sandia
>National Laboratory has developed a
>chemical system that creates a wide
>variety of complex...
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>Sony, Toshiba to push chip
>technology limits
>InfoWorld Feb. 12, 2004
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>Sony and Toshiba announced today
>they will pool resources to develop
>45-nanometer-process chips. The
>chips could be significantly
>smaller, faster and consume less
>power than today's cutting-edge 90
>nm semiconductors....
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>Big Blue gives 90-nano boost to
>PowerPCs
>News.com Feb. 12, 2004
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>IBM plans to announce on Friday
>that it has started mass production
>of PowerPCs on the 90-nanometer
>process. IBM is combining layers of
>silicon on insulator (SOI) and
>strained silicon, which allow
>manufacturers to improve energy
>efficiency or performance: They can
>either make processors that...
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>F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on
>Delivery of the Internet
>New York Times Feb. 12, 2004
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>The Federal Communications
>Commission began writing new rules
>today that officials and industry
>experts said would profoundly alter
>both the way the Internet is
>delivered and used in homes and
>businesses. Commissioners are
>writing regulations to enable
>computer users to gain access to the...
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>Vulcan project aims to build
>'Digital Aristotle'
>Seattle Times Feb. 12, 2004
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>Can a computer be loaded with the
>world's textbook-science knowledge,
>reason through it and then answer
>questions in plain English like a
>phenomenal teacher, a "Digital
>Aristotle"? Paul Allen's private
>investment company, Vulcan, has
>announced it is willing to bankroll
>three competing research...
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