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February 26, 2003

degrees of connected-ness

How this for the linked nature of the web? Slashdot had a story about the annual Turing test that looks at the latest advances in artificial intelligence. The linked article was on Salon and goes into great depth about the behind the scenes information relating to the contest and those involved. The artical points out that the University Of Surrey is set to host the contest in 2003.

Go Team Web.

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elections {annual}

It’s all going off over there and there. Seems there are some people that want my job and look like they’d do a good job of it too. Cannot believe that it was one year ago now. Guess it’s my turn to sit back and watch the outcome, I suppose you could say my days are numbered…

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February 2, 2003

“Little yellow woodshed” competition almost over

From this week’s barefacts RAG special:

Interest mounts this week as the long running Little Yellow Woodshed competition draws to a close. The competition, run by Mature Mobile, has seen students working in salt mines for the last two years in an attempt to win six days in the covotted woodshed. At the beginning of the competition students had to publicly brand themselves with red hot pokers to communicate their commitment. From there, those that the judges deemed to be worthy were given the chance to work in a salt mine on 18 hour shifts for the last two years whilst students voted on the LittleYellowWoodshed.com site.

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