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Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?
A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Bookmark Why e-books will never replace real books
Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late 20th…

June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Chess Master and the Computer
In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next,…

June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments
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October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments
Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison
After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?
An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

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