Extractions: May 10, 1994 We see this sponsorship model in frequent practice around the Net today, vast electronic for-free Internet sandboxes such as SUNsite, funded by Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems and others. The sponsors gain by providing their equipment to people making creative use of it, so others will come and see what they are doing, and...buy the sponsors equipment or products. So, as the freely available ASCII files for the Internet Companion fueled the sales of the printed book, so too the freely available playground sandbox at SUNsite spurs the sales of the sponsors' wares. It is kinetic advertising at its best, and it capitalizes on the fundamental shift in economics which fuels the new machine, the shift from the economy of scarcity, of buying and selling things, ideas incarnated as physical things, to the economics of abundance, where what is for sale isn't a thing at all, but the minds, the attention, of those paying attention to the ideas and information. Such an apparently "free" online environment makes for a welcome change, away from our common human penchant for owning and hoarding things with price tags on them. In the economy of abundance, the status of having shifts to the status of having access.
NJPLS Program (May 16 2001) machine states with types, enabling us to formalize high level specifications ofmachine instructions as abstract instructions and prove the implementation http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/njpls/may01.html
Extractions: Gang Tan (Princeton) Mobile code safety becomes increasingly important as mobile code becomes more prevalent. Proof-carrying code(PCC), proposed by Necula, is a framework for the mechanical verification of safety properties (such as type safety) of machine language programs with a machine-checkable proof. Foundational PCC (FPCC) described by Appel and Felty is a refinement that gives types a denotational semantics and thus bases all the proofs on a foundational logic. The semantic model of types in FPCC links machine states with types, enabling us to formalize high level specifications of machine instructions as abstract instructions and prove the implementation relation between concrete and abstract instructions. Proofs of implementation relations are done in an implementation hierarchy. Illustrated by a toy machine, I'll also show how to formalize the notion of typability of machine code based on implementation relations and prove type safety theorems (progress and preservation). John Reppy (Bell Labs) We have been working on compiler for Moby for the past two years. In this talk, I will describe the current state of the implementation and discuss a number of interesting technical issues that have come up in the implementation effort. I will talk about the infrastructure for cross-module typechecking and inlining, work on loop optimizations, and supporting advanced control structures and concurrency.
Hilltop Times - Aircraft Desinger Became First Flight Crash Fatality contract earlier in the year with the federal government that required deliveryof a machine to Fort Myer and 30 days to prove the machine complied with all http://www.hilltoptimes.com/story.asp?edition=86&storyid=2311
Clonaid Machine 'nothing Special' Analysis of any infants' and donors' DNA would rapidly and conclusively prove ordisprove the claims. The machine, an RMX2010, is very similar to that used to http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-13.html
Extractions: 3 February 2003 TOM CLARKE The RMX2010 produces electric current to drive cell fusion. The "extraordinary" machine that controversial biotech company Clonaid maintains it used to create Eve, the 'first human clone', seems "perfectly ordinary", say cell-fusion experts. The lime-green cloning machine went on display at London's Science Museum last week as part of an exhibit on the possible veracity of Clonaid's claim and the potential impact of human cloning on society. Rather than adding credibility to the cloning claim, displaying the machine - similar to standard models in laboratories around the world - further undermines it, says cell biologist Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge, UK. If their claims are true, "why don't they show the key data, not just the machine?" asks Surani. "They need to provide scientific proof." Clonaid has so far refused to give independent investigators access to their three alleged cloned babies. Analysis of any infants' and donors' DNA would rapidly and conclusively prove or disprove the claims.
Breaking The Code - H Whitemore Forgive me for asking a crass and naive question but what is the point ofdevising a machine that cannot be built in order to prove that there are http://www.trireme.com/alan/poetry/Turing.html
Extractions: [ Alan Turing, in his twenties, is being interviewed for a job at Bletchley Park, the UK government code-breaking centre, during the war. His interviewer is Dillwyn Knox, a classical scholar. (Bletchley was said to have been chosen as the location because it was half way between Oxford and Cambridge!)
Extractions: Amazon.com : Data mining techniques are used to power intelligent software, both on and off the Internet. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools explains the magic behind information extraction in a book that succeeds at bringing the latest in computer science research to any IS manager or developer. In addition, this book provides an opportunity for the authors to showcase their powerful reusable Java class library for building custom data mining software. This text is remarkable with its comprehensive review of recent research on machine learning, all told in a very approachable style. (While there is plenty of math in some sections, the authors' explanations are always clear.) The book tours the nature of machine learning and how it can be used to find predictive patterns in data comprehensible to managers and developers alike. And they use sample data (for such topics as weather, contact lens prescriptions, and flowers) to illustrate key concepts. After setting out to explain the types of machine learning models (like decision trees and classification rules), the book surveys algorithms used to implement them, plus strategies for improving performance and the reliability of results. Later the book turns to the authors' downloadable Weka (rhymes with "Mecca") Java class library, which lets you experiment with data mining hands-on and gets you started with this technology in custom applications. Final sections look at the bright prospects for data mining and machine learning on the Internet (for example, in Web search engines).
Xzibit Net Includes news, biography, audio, pictures, chat room, and quotes.Category Arts Music Bands and Artists X Xzibit machine, a concept album of sorts about the backlash a seasoned artist faces afterachieving commercial success. I've got a lot to prove, X to the Z said http://www.xzibitnet.com/
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PC Magazine So it was sort of a homedown business machine. And it was a very small team in Bocathat wanted to prove that IBM could do a product, any kind of product, in http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1204,00.asp
Extractions: Editors' Note: This article originally appeared in the March 25, 1997 issue of PC Magazine.) Remembering the Beginning PC MAGAZINE: 15 years is a surprising amount of time in some ways. Obviously the PC industry goes back further, but the IBM PC changed it a lot. It changed the way people thought about computers. The 20th Anniversary of the PC BILL GATES: It absolutely did. For the IBM PC, the key market was a hobbyist market. We'd gotten floppy disks, so we'd start to get into some more serious applications. But, both the power of the machine, because it was the first 16-bit machine, and the endorsement by IBM of using a personal computer, and then the critical mass of software and distribution and peripherals that came along with that, makes it the biggest milestone in the history of personal computing. It was a sea change. So, in those first two years a lot of key things were established: the idea of compatibility; MS-DOS as the primary system as opposed to CP/M-86 or UCSD P-System which were the prime competitors; and the whole thing about a broad software industry and using indirect distribution channels. Anyway, it was a monumental change.
Kids And Slot Machines Would it be enough to show that merely one child in the country put money into aparticular slot machine? How do we prove that the child would not have made http://www.gambling-palace.com/Slots/slotskids.htm
Extractions: Kids and Slot Machines Slot machine as we know them today are the result of the machine manufacturers applying new technology to one of the most popular forms of gambling. I think we should all remember that exposure to any form of gambling should be limited to responsible adults of legal age. Slots have been described as captivating by many gamblers who choose this type of gambling as their game of choice. Advertisers have been banned from using sublime seduction to induce the consumer. It is about time that slot machines be very carefully examined by experts to determine exactly what the gamblers find to be captivating about the slots. Online Jackpot
Boxoffice Magazine [Users Film Review Of THE TIME MACHINE (1960) ] they leave to go home and be with their families for the holiday coming up, theinventor decides to prove them wrong by going aboard his machine and seeking http://www.boxoff.com/scripts/userevview.asp?MID=6584
Java HotSpot Virtual Machine - Community Source Licensing bounds check can be eliminated when the compiler can prove that an Instruction scheduling machine instructions generated by the compiler's code generator do http://wwws.sun.com/solaris/java/wp-hotspot/
Extractions: Related: Press Releases See Also: Java HotSpot Virtual Machine Sun Community Source Principles Source Code Catalog Technical White Paper This white paper is also available in PostScript (363K) and PDF (94K) formats. Introduction and Overview New in this Release Runtime Garbage Collection ... Availability The Java platform has become a mainstream vehicle for software development and deployment. Adoption of the Java platform is growing explosively in many dimensions from credit cards to mainframes, and from Web page applets to large commercial applications. As a result, the quality, maturity, and performance of Java technology is of critical importance to developers and users everywhere. Sun Microsystems is investing heavily in technologies to "raise the bar" across many processor and operating system platforms, so that software developers can count on their Java technology-based programs running efficiently and reliably, regardless of processor or operating system. One major reason for the interest in the Java platform is that unlike programs written in traditional languages, Java technology-based programs are distributed in a portable, secure form. In the past, use of a portable distribution format generally incurred a performance penalty during execution. By applying modern dynamic compilation technology, it is possible to alleviate this performance penalty while still maintaining portability across platforms.
HOME.RO | Adresa Nu Exista At first it was just drum machine programs and they were called trax, like therewas Chip E his name while he was playing, and I've got the tapes to prove it! http://www.ashlanders.go.ro/house.htm
Is The World Provably Indeterminate? greater than k. Therefore, without some restriction on the allowable length ofthe Turing machine (to something less than k), we can never prove, in the http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath410.htm
Extractions: Simplicio: Determinism is well defined. A deterministic system is one in which the future state at any time can be calculated by a complete knowledge of the state at some initial time and a recursive mechanism for calculating future states. Simplicio: Your Pi example is not a difficult model to crack. Standard cryptography techniques would catch that easily. Salviati: Not so. Any finite string of decimal digits occurs (infinitely often) in the decimal expansion of both pi and e (assuming the digits of these two numbers are normally distributed). Furthermore, the string occurs with the same frequency in both expansions. Therefore, it would never be possible, based on any finite number of digits, to decide whether the operative algorithm was pi or e, nor whether we had correctly identified the relevant occurrence in the expansion. Simplicio: That is not the issue, Salviati. The issue is could you come to understand *a* physical law of causation based on limited experimental data? The sequences generated in the decimal expansion are simple recursive functions that could be found by exhaustive search techniques. You do not need to have an exact law with absolute certainty to be able to do science. All you need is laws that have predictive power. Salviati: But your assertions are already falsified by the example we are discussing, Simplicio. Exhaustive search techniques won't work on the digits of pi, because the search space is inexhaustible. Therefore, even assuming there is a match between our System and some sequence in the digits of pi, there is no finite amount of "exhaustive searching" that would assure us a probability greater than epsilon of finding the match for any epsilon > 0. Thus a System can be perfectly deterministic and yet utterly unpredictable based on any inferences that could be drawn from any finite set of observations of the System.
Recent Pubs Of Manfred K. Warmuth for which we can prove strong relative loss bound On the Worstcase Analysis ofTemporal-difference Learning Algorithms, Journal of machine Learning, Vol. http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~manfred/pubs.html
Extractions: We have developed a framework for deriving and analysing simple on-line learning algorithms. A learning problem is given by a parameterized class of predictors, a divergence measure in the labelling domain (loss function) and a divergence measure in the parameter domain. My favorite divergences are Bregman divergences. A tutorial that shows the usefulness of the Bregman divergences A more recent tutorial (July 25, Dagstuhl, Germany) that contrasts the two main families of algorithms: the geometric and information theoretic algorithms. The first one is motivated by using the squared Eucledian distance as the parameter divergence and the second family by the relative entropy A paper that contains some of the details of how we use Bregman divergences for proving relative loss bounds. In particular we make the connection between Bregman divergences and the exponential family of distributions
Buying Washing Machine Spare Parts Advice And unlike normal retailers, there is no way you can take a part back after buyingit unless you can prove it is faulty. Washing machine spare parts suppliers. http://www.washerhelp.com/buy_spares_advice.html
Extractions: This page gives advice on how to buy spare parts for washing machines. It gives details on how Washerhelp may be able to help you correctly identify, which part you need and give technical support while fitting it This section advises what to expect from, and how best to deal with, washing machine spares suppliers, as well as what information you need to obtain the correct spare part. If you haven't had experience of buying spare parts for a washing machine before, you may not realize how different it is from buying finished products in a normal shop. There are common mistakes made, that can overly prolong and add stress to the whole process of buying a spare part for your washing machine. The main difference is that you don't get the same standard of service and guarantee that you will be used to when buying a finished product like a kettle, or washing machine. This is not a normal retail environment. In fact with many suppliers of washing machine spare parts, you may be made to feel they are doing you a favour by even considering selling to you at all. Notices up in stores make it plain you will get no guarantee unless the spare part is fitted by a "qualified engineer". And unlike normal retailers, there is no way you can take a part back after buying it unless you can prove it is faulty.
Heidelberg College News Release lives. However, they must first answer a riddle from the riddle machineto prove that they are ready to land on the planet. The http://www.heidelberg.edu/publications/releases/0103-riddle-machine.html
Extractions: Contact: Ericka Daniels Office of College Relations, (419) 448-2171 The Heidelberg College Theatre Department will present the children's play The Riddle Machine Feb. 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. in Gundlach Theatre. The Riddle Machine, written by Beth Lambert, is a tale of "growing-up" according to Rick Groetzinger, Ph.D., director of the Heidelberg theatre department, who is directing the play. The Riddle Machine is the tale of five children who are traveling to another planet to begin new lives. However, they must first answer a riddle from the riddle machine to prove that they are ready to land on the planet. The children must also overcome their robot guardian who keeps them divided. With the help of a dove that is also on the spaceship, the children finally realize they must unite to answer the riddle. Joe Stumpo will perform in the role of the robot and Will Schweda III will play the dove. The following students play the parts of the five children: James Scherf as Ug, Jennifer Maag as Polly, Seth Carey as Casper, Tabitha Shick as Cara and Eddie Ortiz as Hap. Kristi Porada will serve as stage manager for the production.
Extractions: The ER1 looks like a primitive version of R2D2. At its base the ER1 has two "scooter" wheels in the front and a caster wheel in the rear. A digital camera (the robot's eyes) is mounted on the top of the frame. The aluminum body of the robot (which stands two feet tall and 15 inches wide) is really nothing more than some off-the-shelf components pieced together. The real innovation of the ER1 is in its brains-the user's laptop computer. In that sense, the ER1 is kind of a fancy laptop case, which also happens to play music, snap pictures and send e-mail. The ER1 software control center, developed by in-house scientists with assistance from engineers at the California Institute of Technology, runs on most Windows laptops. This interface allows the user to program commands for the ER1 to perform such as small tasks through a series of if-then conditions. For example, the ER1 can be trained to watch your mailbox from a window and alert you when the mail arrives. If users have wireless access they can remotely control the robot from anywhere. The ER1 is priced similar to the AIBO at $599 assembled ($499 unassembled) and will begin shipping in 6 to 8 weeks. The robot is available for purchase at
The Web At Your (machine's) Service so each server needs its own custom coding); they also prove difficult to Wide Webtruly complete; they provide the missing link a machinefriendly user http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2001/jw-0928-smsservice.html
Extractions: This article provides a practical Web service implementation based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI), and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for delivering SMS messages to cellular phones. It also demonstrates how to convert an existing system into one that can exploit Web services. For that, Sonal Bansal and Gaurav Pal will use the CellQuotes application example presented in their earlier article, " Deliver Cellular Text Messages with SMS 2,800 words; September 28, 2001 By Sonal Bansal and Gaurav Pal Page 1 of 3 Advertisement he World Wide Web changes constantly. Since its inception, it has expanded exponentially, grown easier to navigate, and adapted effortlessly to new and innovative uses. However, thus far the Web's interface has been largely friendly to humans but unfriendly to machines. Current technologies open up the Web only to humans through HTML links and URLs. Just imagine the services we could provide if
The TR Publication Process Paper Trail in the future, some automation in the date picking process could prove to be MIT;all these data are gathered by the Webmaster Calendar machine, which outputs a http://www.w3.org/2002/01/tr-automation/TR-papertail
Extractions: TR automation This document describes the current paper trail of the TR publication process, that is the different steps, actors and approvals a document must go through before being published on the TR page and then analyzes the ways it could be automated and the potential benefits of this automation. It's part of the TR automation project , developed more or less in the SWAD framework . It's not the result of any consensus except the editor with himself. As a results of the Process Document and the Pubrules , a document ready to be published in TR space goes (or should go) through the following steps: the document editor of the Chair asks for approval of the status section to the Team contact if the document is new or reaches the status of CR, PR or REC, the Team contact requests approval from the Director The document editor, the Chair or the Team contact asks for a publication date to the Webmaster and the Comm Team if needed (press release, AC announcement, ...)
