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• Should You Be Afraid of Those 'Intelligent' Robots? Yes! Says a Growing Number of Computer Scientists - Including a Microsoft Researcher.

A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously . Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• July 27, 2009

• Election Watchdog Group Offers $20,000 Reward: Calls On All Computer Scientists, It Specialists and Hackers to Monitor 2010 Election Tabulators for Illegal Manipulations

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the election watchdog group ProtectOurElections.org announced a $20,000 reward for any computer scientist, IT specialist or hacker who can provide definitive evidence that vote tabulation results in the 2010 midterm elections were manipulated in such a way that the results changed the legitimate winner running for federal office. The information must result in an arrest and conviction. The announcement is posted on the ProtectOurElections.org website and includes a reward poster. Evidence from past elections has pointed to possible tabulation manipulation by Karl Rove and GOP controlled operatives that may have changed the results of elections such as Ohio 2004 and Alabama 2002," said the group's attorney and spokesman Kevin Zeese. ...

• U.S. Newswire
• October 25, 2010

• Relocated Company Xiotech Looks to Grow

Xiotech hopes to change the way computer information is stored with a new technology developed by a Colorado Springs-based team of engineers and computer scientists. The company has made the technology - employing a line of computer servers - its primary focus, and moved its headquarters in January to the Springs from the Minneapolis area, where it was founded.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• April 06, 2011

• On E-Auctions for Procurement Operations

Electronic auctions have revolutionized procurement in the last decade. In many situations, they have replaced negotiations for supplier selection and price setting. While they have often greatly reduced transaction costs and increased competition, they have also encountered problems and resistance from suppliers resenting their intrusion on cooperative supplier/buyer relationships. In response to these issues, procurement auctions have evolved in radical new directions. Buyers use business rules to limit adverse changes. Some procurement auctions allow bidders to offer variants in the specifications of products to be supplied. Most important, some suppliers are allowing bidders to bid on packages of items, not just individual items. This tends to change procurement auctions from zero-s...

... (MS), information systems (IS), and computer science (CS). Many papers from OR and MS approach ...

• Production and Operations Management
• Vol. 16 Nbr. 4, July 2007

• Clarke to Honor Computer Scientists

The Clarke College Computer Science Department will initiate three new members into Clarke's beta chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon on Friday, Dec. 8, in Jansen Music Hall on the Clarke campus. The public is invited to attend. Upsilon Pi Epsilon is an international honor society for computer scientists. Clarke's chapter was established in 1991.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• December 07, 2006

• Web Browser Flaw Exposes Confidential Data

SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography, a team of computer scientists found. The information is valuable for con artists to learn more about their targets and send them personalized attacks. It also allows e- commerce companies to adjust ads or prices - for instance, if the site knows you've just come from a competitor that is offering a lower price.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 07, 2010

• Two Univa Founders Named Among Top 100 Computer Scientists Worldwide.

Nature Magazine List Places Dr. Ian Foster in Top 3; Also Names Dr. Carl Kesselman CHICAGO -- Two of Univa's founders, Dr. Ian Foster and Dr. Carl K...

• Business Wire
• September 05, 2007

• Vivisimo Matures, Shifts Focus From Web to Internal Searches

Three Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists founded search-engine company Vivisimo Inc. in June 2000 -- the same month then 2-year-old Google Inc. announced it had become the world's largest search engine. Over the next decade, Google further cemented its position as the world's dominant search website, and in 2010 Vivisimo sold its Clusty.com search engine to a Florida company for $5.6 million.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• November 01, 2011

• Curious Scientists Create Computer Version of Cat Brain

By Jordan Robertson The Associated Press

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• November 26, 2009

• Debris From Japanese Tsunami Slowly, Steadily Drifting Toward U.S.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Millions of tons of debris that washed into the ocean during Japan's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in March - everything from furniture to roofs to pieces of cars - are now moving steadily toward the United States and raising concerns about a potential environmental headache. Scientists using computer models say the wreckage, which is scattered across hundreds of miles of the Pacific Ocean, is expected to reach Midway and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands by next spring and beaches in California, Oregon and Washington in 2013 or early 2014.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• July 11, 2011