Computable Minds

Blog of popular science about the more exiting branches of computer science.

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Posted on: Oct, 26th 2010
Gold medal of the Loebner prize
The past day 23 was celebrated the twentieth edition of the Loebner prize in the University of California. This competition consist in test several chatbots to see if they are capable to surpass the Turing test. Surprise yourself with the rest of "Winner of the Loebner prize 2010"

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Posted on: Oct, 22nd 2010
The private enterprises and the public administrations in Spain lead a lot of time having to pay a digital tax to the SGAE (an entity seemed to the RIAA in America or PRS in UK). From now they haven't to do it and they can demand the SGAE the money of this illegal tax. But the Spanish govern isn't the responsible that has avoided that the SGAE had collected the money, but a demand of a computer shop that have arrived to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Follow discovering "The digital tax in Spain illegal for the enterprises"

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Posted on: Oct, 19th 2010
DTT logo
Never I watch television, but all that is related to the digital technologies I find it interesting, so, today, I'm going to talk about the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
Here you will discover all the advantadges and disadvantages that have the DTT. Continue reading "How works the DTT?"

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Posted on: Oct, 17th 2010
Benoît Mandelbrot
Seems that was yesterday when the past July I publish a post about fractals where I talked about Benoît Mandelbrot and where you can watch one of the last or perhaps the last of his conferences.
Mandelbrot, developed the fractal mathematics from the works of Gaston Maurice Julia and popularized it in the years 70, unfortunately died the past day 14, as consequence of a pancreatic cancer, announced his wife Aliette yesterday. Don't miss the rest of "Beonît Mandelbrot dies due to a fractal (1924-2010)"

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Posted on: Oct, 15th 2010
Wifi logos
If your WiFi disconnects constantly or is slow, despite of have the access point or the router near, and you don't know why, in this post, with a probability of the 99% you will find the solution to your problem. Enter into "WiFi collisions"

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Posted on: Oct, 12th 2010
Kitt with the logo of Google
The autonomous drive of vehicles is an application of artificial intelligence that have a lot of years of development. Two days ago Sabastian Thrun, a Google engineer, reveal in the blog of the company that they are investing in this kind of technology to sell it, in a future, to car manufacturers. Do you want to know in what consist? Fill your mind with "The Kitt of Google"