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Submission + - J G Ballard

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jefu

on Sunday April 19, 2009 @06:13PM

jefu writes: "J.G. Ballard, an author (of science fiction and other fiction) has died. His works include some of the strangest and most compelling novels ever, including "The Crystal World", "Crash" and "The Atrocity Exhibition". For a truly weird read, try his "Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race", compared with Alfred Jarry's "The Cruxcifixion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race" . His BBC obituary is here."

Submission + - AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats

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jefu

on Wednesday October 04, 2006 @12:15PM

jefu writes: "According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press (registration required and all that) in order to detect threats to the United States. While the article says there are restrictions on doing this kind of monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US. (No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles written in the US and published abroad.) This is as yet experimental."

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