<p> Two Fridays ago, the Philippines celebrated "Mother Earth Day 2007", entitled: AVE MARIA GAIA MYSTICA giving honor to Our Blessed Virgin Mary. Different best singers and musicians mostly from the University of the Philippines College of Music participated in this very solemn way of communicating to our GOD in helping Mother Earth for the sake of mankind. </p> <p> Among the singers […]
On the Long-awaited Cusp of a New Generation in Computing
In February of 2007, D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, Canada, successfully demonstrated the world’s first quantum computer, to much fanfare. Known as Orion, this 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer is designed to be scaled up to a 1024-qubit model by mid-2008 that can very quickly compute a very specific sort of problem using somewhat different properties of quantum […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
Rahsaan as Orpheus
City Bell, Argentina — "That’s what freedom’s all about; learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away." Rahsaan Roland Kirk One afternoon, about two years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with a view of a strange, new city, listening to a piece on NPR about dreams and art. It was a cold day and […]
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