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Items:  Fifty years since the discovery of the Double Helix.
Fifty Years Since the Discovery of the Double Helix:  Multimedia Presentation
Linux becomes a mainstream technology
.  20 jan 03

Cellular Roaming in Developing Countries.  9 jan 03
New Apple Software.  Jan 9 03
Microsoft introduces new watch with a wireless computer link.  Jan 9, 2003.
HDTV cable receiver to be included in sets.  Jan 2, 2003.
New $400 laptop.  Dec 31, 02
Britain to Establish Genetics Data Bank.  Dec 31, 02
Internet Access on Airplanes in the Works.
New Wireless Network Proposed:  Dec 02
Plastic transistors?  Dec 02
Intel to offer fastest chip ever, Nov 2002.
Review of Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, June 7, 2002.
Face Recognition Technology at Statue of Liberty.  May 25, 2002.
Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, released May 14, 2002
Interactive Data Bases for Naturalist Observations.
Are basic physical laws emerging properties of chaos?
Scientists make tiny computer with DNA molecules.
AIBO the robot.
Paternity Dispute Between Inventors of Packet Switching.
X Box or Game Cube?
Voice Recognition for Palm Pilots.
Remote Gall Bladder Operation.
More Pros go to digital photography.
Geographical Information Systems Help with Rescue Efforts.
Securing the Links of a Wired Nation.
Online Diaries of WTC experiences.    Check: www.worldnewyork.org
The WTC attack as a test of the survivability of communications networks.
Ants as a Model for Network Engineering.
IBM creates  a circuit out of a single strand of carbon.
As wireless networks grow, so do security concerns.
Tampa scans faces of crowds for criminals.
Self-organizing file folders on computers.
Three-D models of molecules from Sun Microsystems.
A WEB site with photographs of Microarrays.
Linking PC's to Make a Supercomputer.
The WEB as a Dictator of Scientific Fashion
Software's Next Leap is Out of the Box.
Chaotic - or truly random - data as a product on WEB sites.
Intel produces a chip 70 to 80 atoms wide and 3 atoms thick.
The New Genetics:  Computer Technology Leads the Way to Post-Genomic Biology.
Open Source Movement Advances, Microsoft Fights Back Microsoft offers guidance to reporters.
Distributed Computing Networks:  Selling time on your home PC when you're not using it.
Caseless Batteries Published on Paper.
Roaming Manhattan with Wireless Gadgets.
Computer Vandals Clog Antivandalism Site.
Is miniaturization reaching its limits: the human hand and eye?
Silicon Valley "Accidental Entrepreneur" comments on the effects of rapid technological change.
Hacker being sued.
Web Pads:  More than a Palmtop, Not Quite a PC.
Looking Back at the Early IBM PC.
Face Recognition Technology, used in Law Enforcement, gives inconsistent results.
Microsoft Begins Campaign Against Free Code.
The "Dumbing Down" of Programming:  An Engineer Rediscovers the Joys of Difficult Programming.
How it works:  Retinal Displays Superimpose Images.
IBM plans to develop computers that automatically adjust to human needs.
Scientists Build Smaller and Smaller Computers.
State of the Art: Makeover for Desktop PC Adds Style, and a Stylus
Microsoft to release new version of Windows in fall 2001.
New Mac Operating System:  Based on Unix and "insanely great?"
Robots Can Learn Much from High-Tech.
Aibo, the Robotic Dog.  January 25, 2001 Circuits Magazine - link may not work.
Nanotubes and Bucky Balls.
Computing One Atom at a Time.
All Science Is Computer Science.
Robotic toys an expanding market.
IBM Plans New Computer to Work at the Speed of Life.
Cryptologists find flaws in "Pretty Good Privacy" program.
Breaking into accounts of celebrities is pretty easy.
A plan to provide high speed Internet access with airplanes.
A robot that works in city sewers.
Location Devices Gain Popularity and Raise Popularity Problems.
Review of a book on the ethics of hacking, Linus and the open-source movement.
Installing Linus on your PC.
Death of Claude Shannon, the Mathematician whose theories laid the groundwork for electronic communication.
Wireless Web spreading to many public places.
Methematician develops unbreakable code.
Windows releases new operating system:  Windows XP.
DSL service problem-ridden.
Artificial Intelligence hasn't peaked (yet).
An electronic cat?
Is the era of free, unlimited Internet service over?
Did we gain anything from the Y2K scare?
World's first electronic, interactive Elk crossing.
Web Sites Begin to Self-Organize.
Digital Doctoring:  physicians using hand-held computers.
MacIntosh puts hopes on new line of computers.
Wearable Computers for the Working Class.
Supercomputing Takes Yet Another Turn.
Uses of the Internet in Health Care Expanding.
U.S. Govt Selects a New Encryptation Technique:  Rijndael.
Why the New Wireless Web is a lot like the old days of the WEB.
Who Stole Bill Gates' Altair Program 25 Years Ago?  And Should Software be Free?
A robot that creates other robots - a step towards Artificial Life.
Neural Net Program Teaches Itself to Play Checkers.
Microsoft Developing "Agents" to Deal with the Distractions of Cyberspace.
Problems creating profitable and useful wireless internet applications.
The Search Engine as Cyborg  an interesting article on the limitations of computer searching and of incorporating human intelligence into computer search engines.
New computer technology based on molecular-sized components, and  miniaturized machines, reduced to microchip dimensions, are working alongside or in place of the   processors.
The Secret Life of the Home Computer:  While You Sleep, Your PC Might Be Doing Higher Math, Finding Aliens or Even Making Money .
New, more intelligent technology for Search Engines.  An article from Nature.
Linux to be used in new Internet appliance from Gateway and AOL.
Big News on Little (hand-held) Screens.
New toys introduce communication features that may later be available in adult versions.
Visualization Maps of the Internet available here.  Some of them are quite striking, although I do not know what use they have.
New Company formed to develop Quantum Computing.  The articles does a pretty good job of explaining what Quantum Computing is.
"Napster" software makes it easy to find and copy music off the Internet.
The brain still grows after adolescence, adding more reasoning and judgment powers.
Hackers - Good Guys and Bad GuysIn the Pursuit of Cybercriminals Real Detectives Turn to Amateurs
Disruptions of major internet sites in February, 2000, by innundating them with nonsense messages.
Watches that incorporate communications technology.

Billboards go Digital!  Nasdaq's giant electronic sign dominates the Times Square "Corporate Theme Park." photograph ©
                Copyright 1999, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc
Computers with the ability to sense human emotions.

Alexandre Chislenko's WEB page on chaos, complexity and related subjects.
Use of biochips in medicine.
Use of AI techniques in City Planning.
IBM Plans Super Computer that Works at the Speed of Life.
Physicists fret about Nothingness.  and a review of the latest on quantum theory.
A review of Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines, which argues that people will meld with computers.  If the Times takes it down, you can read it here.
Some graphical pictures of the Net, produced by mapping software, make it look a lot like a brain.
A "digital brain" invented by two physicists can recognize patterns even if it has no idea what they mean.
New research on the brain is more supportive of Freud's theory of dreams.
Computer Scientists Are Poised for Revolution on a Tiny Scale.   New chips will be atomic in scale and incredibly fast.
Designing the invisible computers of the future.
The Apple iMac as an Internet Tool - Is Apple a Uniquely Internet-oriented Platform?
Nice discussion of McCullough and Pitts.  Part of an overall treatment of AI which is worth considering.
Story on analogy between human diseases and computer viruses and worms.
The new wireless Palm PC - in the future we will use portable WEB browsers wherever we go.
Uses of streaming Video.
Buckminster Fuller's Archives are Moving.   Local if needed.
A story on the search for biological computer chips.
Wearable computer technology.      On this site.
Computers in car dashboards.
Mapping the net.
Can A Bird Think and Talk?    On Times Server.
Computers That Think Outside  the Box,
Chip Progress Seen Hitting Barrier
   Computer Program Recognizes  Facial Expression
 Mindless Creatures Acting 'Mindfully',
 The Commanding Voice - voice interface and conversation.
  An article about open-source software, from The Economist.
Art and Science: A Universe Apart? by Richard Panek.
 
The merits of various fast Internet connection services for the home.  And why you may not be able to get any of them.  Cable modem is available in some South Jersey communities from GardenState@Home.  DSL service may be available from Bell Atlantic, depending on exactly where you live.  However, there are sometimes problems with DSL lines as well.  The price for DSL varies depending on how high speed a service you choose;  the one which is equivalent to cable costs a good bit more.