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Nanotech Bill Picks Up Some
Passengers, Moves On To Full House
May 1, 2003
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S.189, The Nanotechnology Research
and Development Act of 2003, was
approved Thursday by the House
Science Committee. The bill,
reportedly backed by the White
House, would authorize spending
$2.36 billion over three years for
nanotechnology programs at a range
of government agencies. Rep....
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A 'man on the moon' challenge for
nanotech
May 1, 2003
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May 1 ? The U.S. should develop
advanced nanotechnology to reduce
our dependence on imported energy
and regain our position as the world
leader in manufacturing, "a grand
challenge similar to the 'man on the
moon' challenge," said Jim Von Ehr,
CEO of Zyvex Corporation, today in
testimony at a U.S...
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Virus Pushes Schools to Go Virtual
April 21, 2003
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After the deadly SARS outbreak,
Hong Kong schools were ordered shut
last month. But Macromedia Inc. and
First Virtual Communications Inc.
have helped thousands of those
students keep up with their studies
via virtual classrooms conducted
over the Internet, using web cams....
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Decoding Computer Intruders
April 24, 2003
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In the abstract, fighting a war is
simple. The enemy and the targets
are generally identifiable. But in
the war against hackers and virus
writers, the combatants are harder
to know. The attacker might be a
14-year-old in Canada, or a
co-worker in the accounting...
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DARPA-Developed Device Bridges
Language Divides
April 25, 2003
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Non-linguist U.S. troops in
Afghanistan and Iraq have been able
to communicate with local citizens
by using a paperback-book-sized
device called the phraselator. The
phraselator uses computer chips to
translate English phrases into as
many as 30 foreign language
equivalents. Next step: a...
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Industry Loses Web Song-Swap Ruling
April 26, 2003
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Two companies behind services for
sharing music and movies over the
Internet are not to blame for any
illegal copying conducted by the
services' users, a federal judge has...
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'No' in a Needle
Apr. 28, 2003
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New vaccines meant to block drug
highs could help break a habit or
keep one from...
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Scientists Breed Cancer-Beating
Mice
Apr. 28, 2003
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The fight against cancer could be
helped by the discovery of a strain
of mice which appear to have the
ability to resist the...
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Artificial intellect really
thinking?
May 1, 2003
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Can machines think? "For practical
purposes, and certainly in the
business world, the answer seems to
be that if it seems to be
intelligent, it doesn't matter
whether it really...
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Web-based attacks could create
chaos in the physical world
May 1, 2003
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Using little more than a Web search
engine and some simple software, a
computer-savvy criminal or terrorist
could easily leap beyond the
boundaries of cyberspace to wreak
havoc in the physical world, a team
of Internet security researchers has
concluded. Automated order forms on
the Web could...
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Brain-machine interfaces to restore
motor function and probe neural
circuits
May 2003
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"Recent studies have shown that it
is possible to create functional,
bidirectional, real-time interfaces
between living brain tissue and
artificial devices. It is reasonable
to predict that further research on
brain?machine interfaces will lead
to the development of a new
generation of...
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Embryonic stem cells turned into
eggs
May 1, 2003
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Embryonic stem cells have been
turned into egg cells -- the first
time scientists have duplicated the
process of egg formation and
ovulation in the test tube. The
finding opens the possibility that
human eggs could be made in large
numbers in a culture dish, instead
of relying on donors. That...
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Old age's mental slowdown may be
reversible
May 1, 2003
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Administering tranquilers to
monkeys to increase GABA or its
effects can reverse mental decline,
say researchers. As people get
older, the neurons in their brains
increasingly fire non-selectively.
By helping neurons to respond only
to specific stimuli, GABA enables
the brain to make sense of...
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Some fear loss of privacy as
science pries into brain
May 1, 2003
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Brain scientists' mounting success
at mapping brains is sparking
concerns about "brain privacy" and
"neuroethics," the discussion of
ethical implications of the
explosion of knowledge about the
brain. The debate could lead to
proposed new laws and influence
ethical guidelines for the operators...
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NEW ARTICLES
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Understanding the Accelerating Rate
of Change
Ray Kurzweil
Chris Meyer
05/02/2003
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We're entering an age of
acceleration. The models underlying
society at every level, which are
largely based on a linear model of
change, are going to have to be
redefined. Because of the explosive
power of exponential growth, the
21st century will be equivalent to
20,000 years of progress at today's
rate of progress; organizations have
to be able to redefine themselves at
a faster and faster pace.
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