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More Interesting Challenges in Spam and OCR

I’d never know who actually take their stock purchase advise from email messages which start with bunch of garbled text and inform you of insider information about price sky rocketing next week. Regardless of its financial significance or lack of it, this has increased the job for anti-spam tools since now it’s not about text…

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DevConnections Wrap-ups Etcetera

Courtesy of Paul Mooney “Scott Guthrie gave an 8 AM talk on ASP.Net AJAX at DevConnections, in case you missed it I got it recorded.” Click here to see it. Dan Wahlin’s sessions were also recorded. Video: ASP.NET AJAX, XML and Web Services (with a little Virtual Earth) Video: Minimize Code with TableAdapters and Strongly-Typed…

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Dijkstra's Manuscripts

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull;therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague" -Edsger Dijkstra Dijkstra's Manuscripts - a CS must read.http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

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Video Lectures

MSRI lectures on diverse topics like “Text Data Mining with Minimal Spanning Trees” or “The Likehood, Bayesian Statistics and Spatial Data”, excellent resource. General Statistics and Math video lectures

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Call for Papers - AI and Data Mining Conferences

Some interesting conferences are going on, following are the CFP's. IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Special Issue on Argumentation Technology Submission deadline: 2 Mar. 2007 A PDF version of this the call is available here: The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research lying across philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, and psychology. Over the last…

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Grid Computing using Microsoft.NET Framework

Grid Computing using Microsoft Forbes Magazine in its January 2006 issue ran its cover story titled “A Super Computer for your living room”. This discusses the IBM cell processor powered by eight co-processors with their own memory being used in multimedia.  This helps providing realistic imaging by realtime rendering as it states “Cell crunches through…

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DARPA's Urban Challenge 2007

After having a A huge leap forward to robotics R&D (my 10/05 post Autonomous land vehicles - drivers not required), DARPA has again raised the bar. Now entering the realm of “The real urban driving challenge” and the deadline is 3rd Nov 2007. Beside boundary conditions, how the machines would do? How well the artificial…

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