April 27, 2004
NY Times: Cognitive Rascal in the Amorous Swamp: A Robot Battles Spam.
Within minutes, the program had discovered rules of spam identification that had taken me years to acquire. The results were so reliable that I have almost abdicated the responsibility. Part of my brain has been replaced by 2.9 megabytes of computer code downloaded free from the Internet.
Wired News: NETI to Examine Net's Strengths.
They want to figure out how to make the Internet faster and more reliable, but to do that they need to gather data from tens of thousands of personal computers around the world. Currently, Internet performance research almost always uses data gathered from various router points along the Internet's backbone, the high-speed pipelines that keep data moving around the globe.
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