An international team of scientists and engineers has broken the network speed record for the third consecutive year; A new machine-vision algorithm developed at Stanford University gives robots the ability to approximate distances from still images. (MP3, 3:26 mins.)
IBM will make specs for its PowerPC 405 core freely available to researchers and academia; TopCoder Algorithm Competition registration begins on February 13, 2006. (MP3, 2:07 mins.)
Biological Computing and the Systematic Engineering of Biological Systems: engineering biological computers; Evolving Computation in Bacterial Collectives: a reader's proposal on this topic; Snippets: serious and humorous links, including assorted research papers.
