Indeed, Stair represents a new wave of AI, one that integrates learning, vision, navigation, manipulation, planning, reasoning, speech and natural-language processing. It also marks a transition of AI from narrow, carefully defined domains to real-world situations in which systems learn to deal with complex data and adapt to uncertainty.

The project's aim is to provide a self contained pure Java (platform independent) common infrastructure for developers of trading systems. Some of the aspects which should be addressed are to provide a common SQL92 compliant database schema for storing financial data, common Java interfaces for how to interchange data between different modules, visualisation of raw financial data and trading signals and several other common aspects needed to create a final trading system.

Although Nintendo's handheld is something of a cash-cow for the industry veteran, its success has resulted in one particularly unwelcome side-effect. The distribution of pirate DS games is rife, thanks to two vital factors: the proliferation of cheap 'pass-through' cartridges and the evolution of the internet.

Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately guilty. The punishment - summary Internet disconnection.

Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime.

We have seen the future of botnets, and it is a distributed, low-key affair. Are sites running free software finally becoming malware targets?

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The Schwarzschild geometry describes the spacetime geometry of empty space surrounding any spherical mass. Karl Schwarzschild derived this geometry at the close of 1915, within a few weeks of Albert Einstein publishing his fundamental paper on the Theory of General Relativity.

This is one of several shortened indices into the Quantum Physics Sequence.

It is intended for students who are having trouble grasping the meaning of quantum math; or for people who want to learn the simple math of everything and are getting around to quantum mechanics.