Someone passed along This One that says a Philadelphia man has been charged with hacking into the Monroe County Library System\’s Web site, which had to be shut down for more than three weeks for $30,000 of repairs and security improvements.
He sounds like a decent guy, but since then they say they have spent $30,000 to repair damage caused by the hacking and install new hardware and software in an attempt to stymie new hacking efforts.
February 2002
Laura Bush Declines UCLA Commencement Invitation
When UCLA invited Laura Bush to speak at their spring commencement, some students protested the choice, citing that Mrs. Bush has no merit, and was selected simply because of who she is. Laura Bush has since declined the invitation. More
Presenting Copyright issues to highschool teacher
Russell McOrmond passed along Presentation Notes given to a group of teachers at their professional development day on copyright reform consultation.
He provides answers to questions like; \”The \”socialist\” ideas presented in this discussion may be easier to morally justify, but we live in a capitalist society.
\”, \”What is Microsoft \”.NET\”? \”, and \”If you don\’t restrict peoples ability to copy, how do you make money?\”.
Librarian’s Book Club
Troy Johnson writes \”Bibliofuture.com has a \”Librarian\’s Book Club.\” The Librarian\’s Book Club is a group to read and discuss books that are about libraries and the library profession. Every two months new books are selected to be read. The club was started in July of 2001 and is on it\’s tenth book and has 160 members. Members discuss the books via listserv. New books have been selected for March – April and we welcome new members. \”
There is also a nice section on eBook Readers and Libraries.
Libraries Crack Down On Rude Behavior
Here\’s A Very Short Story on a new county law banning people from library facilities for up to 90 days for rude behavior. Clackamas County, OR, librarians say they\’re seeing an increase in troublemakers, and they want to do something about it.
No details on the law, but they do mention that libraries often double as babysitting services for parents who drop their children off for extended periods of time.
The File Room discussed
A story/thread on Slashdot entitled The
Futility of Censorship is about a project called The File Room by an
artist named Antonio Muntadas, and how it shows (or
doesn\’t show) that the existence of the internet stands to
work against censorship. What The File Room is is an
archive of censored materials from around the world,
making them available to anyone who has (full) access to
the internet.
Jupiter Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings
Ryan writes: \”Good and interesting article from Searchenginewatch.com. Also includes good links, as usual.
For those of us who aren\’t/weren\’t/won\’t ever be math majors and th.f. think numbers are not only snazzy, but ultimately significant: revamped and purportedly more accurate search engine popularity stats made public.\”
World Copyright Treaties Would Expand Reach of U.S. Internet Legislation
From Wired News…
\”Two treaties taking effect this spring would expand the reach of controversial American legislation designed to regulate the Internet. The World Intellectual Property Organization, an international body of government representatives that globalizes laws, announced new guidelines to crack down on digital piracy. The WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, which go into effect over the next three months, extend copyright protection to computer programs, movies and music.\” More
Librarian Calls for Screening Public Access to Nuclear Documents
Another twist in the ongoing \”access to information\” stories, this time The Chronicle of Higher Ed says a documents librarian at the State University of New York at Oswego sent out an e-mail message urging fellow librarians to screen requests for Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents.
This time the the U.S. Government Printing Office said the request threatened to restrict access to public documents
IKOMAT 2002 Call For Papers
maumita bhattacharya writes \”
This is an invitation to I-KOMAT’2002: International Workshop on
Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques (I-KOMAT’2002) to
be held in conjunction with: KES\’2002 (Sixth International Conference on
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems,
16, 17 & 18 September 2002, Podere d\’Ombriano, Crema, Italy)
For detailed information, please :
visit our web site
\”
maumita bhattacharya writes \”
This is an invitation to I-KOMAT’2002: International Workshop on
Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques (I-KOMAT’2002) to
be held in conjunction with: KES\’2002 (Sixth International Conference on
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems,
16, 17 & 18 September 2002, Podere d\’Ombriano, Crema, Italy)
For detailed information, please :
visit our web site
\”
**KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT – THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
WAY**
International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management
Techniques (I-KOMAT’ 2002) is a technical forum for exchanging
current and future research results /ideas involving Computational
Intelligence for identification, analysis and control of knowledge
assets and processes. The scope of I-KOMAT’ 2002 covers both
design and application aspects of various Artificial Intelligence
Techniques like Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems,
Evolutionary algorithms, Hybrid systems, Agents, Support
Vector Machine etc.
I-KOMAT’ 2002 offers an Interdisciplinary Platform to all
researchers, developers and practitioners dealing with AI
based modeling, ontology and planning techniques
supporting knowledge management.
Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished
work that demonstrate current research in all areas of
computational intelligence including design of artificial
neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms,
hybrid systems, agents, and their applications to knowledge
management.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
*Design and modeling aspects of the following Computational
Intelligence Techniques and their applications to science, technology,
commerce, social science and economics:
-Artificial Neural Networks and Probabilistic Reasoning
-Genetic Algorithms
-Evolution Strategies
-Genetic Programming
-Evolutionary Programming
-Learning Classifiers
-Fuzzy Systems including Fuzzy logic and possibility
theory, Fuzzy expert systems, Fuzzy system modeling
and simulation
-Hybrid Soft Computing Techniques like Neuro-Fuzzy,
fuzzy-GA, GA-Fuzzy etc.
-Intelligent Agents including Multi-Agents, Autonomous Agents
and Cooperative Agents
-Support Vector Machines
-Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning
-Rough sets
-Case-based Reasoning
*Data and Knowledge Representation: planning and description logics
*Data and knowledge visualization
*Knowledge acquisition
*Models and frameworks of Data Mining techniques
*Reasoning methods and technologies
*Knowledge and belief, belief revision and update, non-monotonic
formalisms, uncertainty
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Paper Submission
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Authors of contributed and invited papers are requested to submit,
before March 31, 2002, an article not exceeding five pages, of their
research presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least
one of the authors to register and present the paper. The conference
proceedings will be published worldwide by IOS Press, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
Papers must correspond to the requirements detailed in IOS Instructions
for the Preparation of a Camera-Ready Manuscript. All full papers are to
be submitted in PDF, postscript or MS word version electronically to:
[email protected].
Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible.
All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees of
the international program committee of I-KOMAT\’02.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in
the KES Journal (International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent
Engineering Systems).
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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: March 31, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2002
Camera-ready papers due: May 18, 2002
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