Judea Pearl, a Big Brain Behind Artificial Intelligence, Wins Turing Award Judea Pearl, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, recognizes Pearl for his advances in probabilistic and causal reasoning. His work has enabled crea[...]
Archive for March, 2012
March 14th, 2012 - 1:00 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Mulally, the Book
Remember Boeing? The aircraft company founded in Seattle that moved to Chicago to please McDonald Douglas? Oh yeh .. after Alan Mulally rebuilt the commercial aircraft division? What happened to Mulally .. the Seattle guy?[...]
March 14th, 2012 - 11:15 am § in Misc.
More Evidence of North Korean Approaches to Apple
Celebrating the Apples in Arirang – Pyongyang North Korea September 2011. Eric Lafforgue reports from Pyonggang that all over the capital, the Arirang adverts (« Grand mass gymnastic and artistic performance », « Welcome to Pyongyang » and so on) warn the profane…Between August and Octob[...]
NIH Budget Crunch
There is a petition to the White House to increase the NIH budget for FY 2013. This petition was started by Steve Metzler at Johns Hopkins. The current White House proposal calls for a flat NIH budget. After factoring in inflation, flat funding is an equivalent of a funding cut. Research is already [...]
March 14th, 2012 - 10:11 am § in UW
UW Rankings: UW Med Ranks at the top of BOTH Research and Primary Care!
Somebody should share this with Jim McDermott Our Congressman continues, as far as I know, to be utterly unaware of the prominence of the UW …. By KING 5 News http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46720469/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/ U.S. News & World Report has ranked several University of Washington[...]
March 13th, 2012 - 10:41 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Lobster Over Wage Raises?
Harvard Students ask: Lobster Over Wage Raises? Op-Eds | By Iman E. James, Karen A. Narefsky, and William P. Whitham Given that the Harvard Club continues to host extravagant events such as the “Champagne and Sparkling Wine Walkaround,” and taking into account the high cost of living in Boston, [...]
March 13th, 2012 - 7:41 am § in Misc.
Russia and South Korea in Alliance, Will Clone The Mastadon
from Korean Herald The deal was signed on Tuesday by Vasily Vasiliev, of North-Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic and stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, AFP revealed. The team aim to get to work on thawed remains of the extinct mamma[...]
McCain’s Hypocrisy
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has heard enough to know the HBO film “Game Change” grossly misleading. “I’m not going to watch (Game Change”),” McCain said .” As for Sarah Palin, “I don’t understand, even in the tough world of politics, why the[...]
March 12th, 2012 - 10:44 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Times Turns Doonesbury to Editorial Page
The Seattle Times will run the strip in the national news section, rather than with other comics, said Executive Editor David Boardman. Boardman said the decision required much discussion, as well as research to verify that cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s take on the Texas law was essentially accur[...]
Woz Disses the iPAD
Steve Wozniak disses iOS from engadget According to The Daily Beast, the Apple co-founder (and connoisseur of Segways) goes on record as preferring many aspects of Android’s fussier-but-deeper UI to iOS’ one size fits all, simplified approach. Citing improvements in voice command softwar[...]