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Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue....
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0400
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
IBM Helps Link POS to the Back Office
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400
IBM and Epicor jointly release an offering that centrally manages and supports POS....

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Pack the plastic; Alaska Airlines goes cashless
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:17:17 -0700
Alaska Airlines will no longer accept cash for in-flight purchases.
Pocket Armrest seeks to become the next neck pillow
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:09:44 -0700
Serial entrepreneur Matt Mostad, of Kenmore, comes up with an idea for traveler's aide while sitting in a cramped airplane seat.
Chevrolet may introduce a mini to U.S.
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:12:00 -0700
General Motors is considering a new Chevrolet minicar for the U.S. as it reworks its product lineup to cope with a dramatic shift from trucks to cars that is linked to high gas prices, a spokesman said Thursday.

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Bits: Google Puts Privacy Link on Main Page
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:08:11 -0000
The move brings Google into clear compliance with a California law that requires many Internet sites to have a link to their privacy policy on their home page.
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:30:23 -0000
The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
Bits: What Is Facebook Worth? (Part 37)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:43:10 -0000
A document in the settled Facebook ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook’s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.

CNN.com - Technology

Stealing ideas from nature
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:01:21 -0400
When self-confessed "nature nerd" Janine Benyus coined the term "biomimicry" in a book she published a decade ago, little did she know it would make her a household name, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
Faked tiger photo sparks Web furor
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:49 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0400
It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

NPR Topics: Technology

We Know What You've Been Watching on YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:13:00 -0400
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.
Free Speech In China? Text Me
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:21:00 -0400
Hundreds of millions of people in China have cell phones, and with no voice mail, many turn to text messaging to make sure their messages get conveyed. Texting remains one of the few outlets for free speech in a country notorious for its censorship practices.

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition

Google 'faces Street View block'
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:56:34 -0000
Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.
Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000
The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.
Google must divulge YouTube log
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

Reuters Video: Technology

Japan asks: anybody out there?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0400
Jul. 4 - Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for a fresh quest to find out if there is life in outer space.
Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:38 -0400
Jul. 3 - The robo-bartender, virtual haute couture, and global leaders ride hydrogen style.
Robo barman pulls first pint
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0400
Jul. 3 - Billed as the world's first robot barman, Mr Asahi pulls the crowds at London's Selfridges department store.

AP Top Technology News At 6:44 p.m. EDT

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
By ANICK JESDANUN Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:52:13 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:44:12 -0000
DOVER, N.Y. (AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said....
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....

CNET News.com

Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:52:00 -0700
Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
1 euro eBay baby goes home
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:37:00 -0700
Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
VeriSign names interim CEO
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0700
Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week.

 

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1st International Workshop on Efficient Algorithms (WEA2001) - Riga, Latvia; August 24-25, 2001.

ALENEX 00 - 2nd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. San Francisco, CA, USA; 7--8 January 2000.

ALENEX 01 - 3rd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. Wyndham City Center Hotel, Washington, DC, USA; 5--6 January 2001.

ALENEX 02 - 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. San Francisco, CA, USA; 4--5 January 2002.

ALENEX 99 - Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation. Omni Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA; 15--16 January 1999.

ALENEX03 - 5th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 11 January 2003.

ALENEX04 - Worskhop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. Held in conjunction with ANALCO04 and SODA04. New Orleans, LA, USA; 10 January 2004.

ALGO 2002 - A multi-conference comprising ESA02, WAE02, APPROX02, WABI02 and ARACNE02. Rome, Italy; 16--21 September 2002.
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ALGO 2003 - Comprising: ESA 2003 (11th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms); WABI 2003 (3rd Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics); ATMOS 2003 (Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways); WAOA 2003 (Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms). Budapest, Hungary; 15--20 September 2003.

ALGO 2004 Symposium and Workshops - Includes ESA 2004; WABI 2004; WAOA 2004; IWPEC 2004; ATMOS 2004. Bergen, Norway; 14--17 September 2004.

ALICE 2003 - 1st Workshop on Algorithms for Listing, Counting, and Enumeration. To run concurrently with ALENEX03 and co-located with SODA03. Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 11 January 2003.

404 AMCS'05 - International Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; 27--30 June 2005.

ANALCO04 - The First Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics. Held in conjunction with ALENEX04 and SODA04. New Orleans, LA, USA; 10 January 2004.

Analysis of Algorithms Seminar - Krynica Morska, near Gdansk, Poland; 3--7 July 2000. Abstracts, photographs.

Anogia Algorithmica '05 - First workshop on open problems in algorithmics. Anogia Academic Village, Crete, Greece; 30 May -- 3 June 2005.

404 APPROX 2002 - A workshop on approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems focussing on algorithmic and complexity aspects arising in the development of efficient approximate solutions to computationally difficult problems. It aims, in particular, at fostering the cooperation among algorithmic and complexity researchers of the field. Part of ALGO 2002 in conjunction with ESA'2002 and WABI 2002. Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy; 17--21 September 2002.

Approximation and Randomized Algorithms - 4th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2001) and 5th International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science (RANDOM 2001). Berkeley, California; August 18-20, 2001.

Complexity and Probability - A workshop and concentrated research course. Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden; 15--19 April 2002.

Computation, Combinatorics and Probability - Research programme at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge UK. Themes include: Randomised algorithms; Phase transitions in statistical physics and computer science; Random graphs and structures. August -- December 2002.
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404 Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; 4--6 September 2001.

ESA 2001 - 9th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms. BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark; 28--31 August 2001.

ESA 2002 - 10th European Symposium on Algorithms. Part of Algo'02. University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy; 17--21 September 2002.

ESA 2004 - 12th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms. Part of ALGO'04. Bergen, Norway; 14--17 September 2004.

ICC'01 - Third international workshop on Implicit Computational Complexity. Co-located with PADO II and MFPS XVII. Aarhus, Denmark; 20--21 May 2001.

ISAAC 2003 - 14th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation. Kyoto, Japan; 15--17 December 2003.
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404 ISAAC 2004 - The 15th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation. Hong Kong, China; 20--22 December 2004.

Logic and Algorithms - DIMACS special year 1995-6.

OLA 2004 - Workshop on On-Line Algorithms: a satellite workshop of SWAT 2004. Rungstedgaard, Rungsted Kyst, Denmark; 5--7 July 2004.

500 Optimal Discrete Structures and Algorithms (ODSA 2000) - The conference is devoted to combinatorial optimization and algorithms on discrete structures, extremal problems in posets, design theory, coding theory, cryptography, graph theory, complexity theory, and related topics. Rostock, Germany, September 11-13, 2000

Phase Transitions and Algorithmic Complexity - IPAM, Los Angelese, CA, USA; 3--5 June 2002.

404 PSC'03 - Prague Stringology Conference. Czech Technical University, Prague; 22--23 September 2003.

Random Structures and Algorithms - Poznan, Poland; 2--6 August 1999.

500 Random Structures and Algorithms 2001 - Poznan, Poland; 6--10 August 2001.

Randomized and Derandomized Algorithms for Discrete Structures - DIMACS/IAS Workshop. Part of the special year on Large-scale Discrete Optimisation. Princeton, NJ, USA; 2--4 November 1998.

SAT 2001 - Workshop on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. Boston University, MA, USA; 14--15 June 2001.

SAT 2002 - Fifth International Symposium on the Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; 6--9 May 2002.

404 School on Algorithm Engineering - IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy; 10--12 September 2001.

SODA'01 - 12th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. Washington, D.C., USA; 7--9 January 2001.
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SODA'02 - 13th SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. San Francisco, CA, USA; 6--8 January 2002.

SODA'03 - 14th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD, USA; 12--14 January 2003.

SODA'98 - Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA; 25--27 January 1998.

SODA04 - ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. New Orleans, LA, USA; 11--13 January 2004.

SWAT 2000 - The Seventh Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory. Bergen, Norway; 5--7 July 2000.

Tenth Seminar on Analysis of Algorithms - MSRI, Berkeley, CA; 14--18 June 2004.

The Satisfiability Problem: Theory and Applications - DIMACS Workshop, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; 11--12 March 1996.

URAW 2002 - Upper Rhine Algorithms Workshop. ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 18--19 October 2002.

WABI 2001 - First Workshop on Algorithms in BioInformatics: covering research in all aspects of algorithmic work in bioinformatics. The emphasis is on discrete algorithms that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. Jointly organized and colocated with ESA 2001 and WAE 2001 in the context of ALGO 2001. BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark; 28--31 August 2001.

WADS 2001 - Seventh International Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; 8--10 August 2001.

WAFR 2002 - Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. Nice, France; 15--17 December 2002.

WEA 2003 - Second International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms. Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland; 26--29 May 2003.

WEA 2003 Summer School - Algorithms for Hard Problems: prelude to WEA 2003. Lugano, Switzerland; 19--23 May 2003.

WEA 2004 - III Workshop on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms. Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 25--28 May 2004.

Workshop on Dynamic Algorithms and Applications - Following SODA04. New Orleans, LA, USA; 14 January 2004.