No Respect
No Respect
The Jeopardy game is over, and Watson, the supercomputer built and programmed by IBM, won hands down. But, maddog tackles an item in the “Open Source Operating Systems” category.
The Jeopardy contest between IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, and two human Jeopardy champions fueled all sorts of speculation in the press as to whether computers would ever become as “smart” as humans or have “artificial intelligence.” Questions such as “Can it write literature?” were asked. Of course, that question was answered many years ago by the suggestion of putting an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters and waiting an infinitely long time while they wrote Hamlet. The answer is yes, but how long do you wait?
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SCO Rises from the Swamp
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UberStudent Project Releases UberStudent 3.0
Specialty distro keeps the focus on advanced learning.
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openSUSE Conference Approaches
The openSUSE Conference will be held July 18-22, 2013, at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Drupal.org Hacked
Security breached at home sites of the CMS project.
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Oracle Takes Action on Java Security
Lead Java developer vows policy changes and more attention to fixing problems.
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
Can Watson "hear"
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