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The Fourth International Georgia Tech Conference on Bioinformatics |
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| Topic: Biology |
9:27 pm EDT, Apr 6, 2003 |
The fourth bi-annual International Bioinformatics conference, to be held November 13-16, 2003, in Atlanta, GA, brings together researchers working at the cutting edge of contemporary "genome-based" biological science. Three previous conferences attracted participants from both Academia and Industry worldwide. Speakers include Albert-Lásló Barabási, professor at Notre Dame and author of "Linked". The Fourth International Georgia Tech Conference on Bioinformatics |
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NYT Archive Disappears from the Net |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
5:57 pm EDT, Apr 6, 2003 |
The New York Times has changed its policy for online access to news articles older than thirty days. These articles are no longer available via the free registration process. Do a Memestreams search for "nytimes" and browse down a few pages into the results for an NYT article from 2002. Try to follow the link. No dice. What do they hope to gain by this? It seems likely to encourage private full-text archival of NYT articles, rather than on-demand online retrieval. Some may be dissuaded from linking to NYT at all, given the short fuse, and migrate to other publications that don't have a similar policy. NYT Archive Disappears from the Net |
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New Quake Threat Found Under LA |
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| Topic: Science |
11:19 pm EST, Apr 4, 2003 |
Puente Hills fault system could touch off a 7.5 temblor directly beneath downtown. The good news? It might be thousands of years away. Experts: "It's kind of a worst-case scenario for L.A." "This is the fault that could eat L.A." If you're thinking about life extension when you're at the end of your days, you might want to steer clear of the City of Angels. New Quake Threat Found Under LA |
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Akamai Cancels a Contract for Al Jazeera's Site |
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8:50 am EST, Apr 4, 2003 |
In a move sure to complicate the efforts of Al Jazeera to get its English-language Web site running, Akamai Technologies abruptly canceled a contract on Wednesday to provide Web services for the site. "No web cache for you!" Akamai Cancels a Contract for Al Jazeera's Site |
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Development and Use of Fluorescent Protein Markers in Living Cells |
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11:23 pm EST, Apr 3, 2003 |
The ability to visualize, track, and quantify molecules and events in living cells with high spatial and temporal resolution is essential for understanding biological systems. Only recently has it become feasible to carry out these tasks due to the advent of fluorescent protein technology. Here, we trace the development of highly visible and minimally perturbing fluorescent proteins that, together with updated fluorescent imaging techniques, are providing unprecedented insights into the movement of proteins and their interactions with cellular components in living cells. An update on the wonders of GFP. Subscription is required for access to full text. Development and Use of Fluorescent Protein Markers in Living Cells |
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On the Economics of Anonymity [PDF] |
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| Topic: Computer Security |
12:41 am EST, Apr 3, 2003 |
Decentralized anonymity infrastructures are still not in wide use today. While there are technical barriers to a secure robust design, our lack of understanding of the incentives to participate in such systems remains a major roadblock. Here we present new insights about how to align incentives to create an economically workable system for both users and infrastructure operators. We explore some reasons why anonymity systems are particularly hard to deploy, enumerate the incentives to participate either as senders or also as nodes, and build a general model to describe the effects of these incentives. We then describe and justify some simplifying assumptions to make the model manageable, and compare optimal strategies for participants based on a variety of scenarios. This paper was presented at Financial Cryptography 2003. Authors are from UCB, MIT, and NRL. On the Economics of Anonymity [PDF] |
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The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld |
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12:09 am EST, Apr 3, 2003 |
Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on. The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld |
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Who knows the evil that lurks in the buffers of men? The Stack knows! |
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10:50 pm EST, Apr 1, 2003 |
] Firewalls, packet filters, intrusion detection systems,
] and the like often have difficulty distinguishing between
] packets that have malicious intent and those that are
] merely unusual. We define a security flag in the IPv4
] header as a means of distinguishing the two cases. :) Who knows the evil that lurks in the buffers of men? The Stack knows! |
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Can Sensemaking Keep Us Safe? |
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3:29 pm EST, Mar 30, 2003 |
New intelligence software finds meaning in the chaos of clues scattered throughout data-saturated networks. The challenge: to unravel terrorist plots before they happen. By M. Mitchell Waldrop A few years ago, says Jeff Jonas, a friend arranged for him to give a talk at the secretive National Security Agency, widely renowned as the most technology-savvy spy shop in the world. He wasnt quite sure what to expect. ... Jonas was proud of NORA, his companys Non-Obvious Relationships Awareness analytic software. The system can cross-correlate millions of transactions per day, extracting such items of interest as the info nugget that a particular applicant for a casino job has a sister who shares a telephone number with a known underworld figure. But Jonas reckoned that this would seem like routine stuff to the wizards of the NSA. Wrong. This article appears in the March 2003 issue of MIT Technology Review. A subscription is required for access to the full text. It's also available in print on newsstands everywhere. Do you have a good idea that In-Q-Tel should know about? Can Sensemaking Keep Us Safe? |
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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age |
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1:34 am EST, Mar 28, 2003 |
From the bestselling author of The End of Nature comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are. Reporting from the frontiers of genetic research, nanotechnology and robotics, he explores that subtle moral and spiritual boundary that he calls the "enough point." Presenting an overview of what is or may soon be possible, McKibben contends that there is no boundary to human ambition or desire or to what our very inventions may make possible. "We need to do an unlikely thing: We need to survey the world we now inhabit and proclaim it good. Good enough." Publishers Weekly writes, "This is a brilliant book that deserves a wide readership." Echoes of Bill Joy ... Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age |
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