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		<title>Can &#8220;Rascals&#8221; Pass The Turing Test?</title>
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&#8220;Passing the Turing test&#8211;the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby a human conversing with a computer can&#8217;t tell it&#8217;s not human&#8211;may now be possible in a limited way with the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer (IBM&#8217;s Blue Gene), according to AI experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI is aiming to pass AI&#8217;s final exam this fall, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/03/15/ai-researchers-think-rascals-can-pass-turing-test/</link>
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		<title>Geek Love - New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Rogers, Senior Editor at Wired, has a tribute to Gary Gygax, inventor of Dungeons &#038; Dragons and much of the social structure of Web2, Geek Love - Sunday New York Times.  Gorgeous flow chart, too! 
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		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/03/09/geek-love-new-york-times/</link>
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		<title>Why Does It Take So Long?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hoary old adage is that publishing a book is like giving birth: It takes nine months.  Nowadays, we have electronic typesetting, high-speed presses, print-on-demand, and oceans of text gushing through fiberoptic pipes onto computer screens all over the planet. 
So why does it still take so long to publish a dead-tree edition?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/02/02/why-does-it-still-take-so-long-to-publish-a-book/</link>
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		<title>Google Book Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t tried Google Book Search yet, try it out on a few of my books. 

If you have the time, you can read the whole book online:

Critical Care: A Novel, by Richard Dooling;
White Man&#8217;s Grave: A Novel, by Richard Dooling;
Brain Storm: A Novel, by Richard Dooling;
Bet Your Life: A Novel, by Richard Dooling

Google&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/01/30/google-book-search/</link>
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		<title>Rapture For The Geeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My next book is Rapture For The Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ, due out from Random House in fall of 2008.  Amazon has a  page up, but no jacket image or description yet. Until the publisher makes a sample chapter available, I&#8217;ll post samples here:
Survival Of The Smartest: Will Computers Out-Evolve Us?
(from Rapture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/01/26/rapture-for-the-geeks/</link>
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		<title>Rejection, Thy Constant Companion</title>
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
&#8211;Winston Churchill

Most writers worry about rejection, not acceptance.  Ray Bradbury says that the successful writer has to deal with both: &#8220;You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.&#8221; 
Several articles on this site (usually in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/01/20/let-rejection-be-your-constant-companion/</link>
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		<title>Tim O&#8217;Reilly - Static on the Dream Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim O&#8217;Reilly comments on Verizon&#8217;s latest promise to open its network to all appliances and applications in Static on the Dream Phone - New York Times
&#8220;THE Internet and the cellphone are on a collision course . . .  In the future, the cellphone and similar wireless devices, not the personal computer, will be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2007/12/15/tim-oreilly-static-on-the-dream-phone/</link>
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		<title>The Writers On Strike</title>
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Thirteen days into the Hollywood Writers&#8217; Strike and the blogs have sprung to life with daily accounts of writers walking the lines in Los Angeles. Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin have running accounts of what it&#8217;s like out there in the first full-scale WGA strike since 1988. According to the Los Angeles Times, negotiations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2007/11/16/the-writers-on-strike/</link>
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		<title>2007 National Book Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiction
Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson (Winner!)
Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories, by Lydia Davis
Then We Came To The End, by Josua Ferris
Like You&#8217;d Understand Anway, by Jim Shepard

Nonfiction
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,, by Tim Weiner (Winner!)
Brother, I&#8217;m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everyting, by Christopher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2007/11/15/2007-national-book-awards/</link>
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		<title>10 Best Books of 2007 - New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 10 Best Books of 2007 - New York Times.
100 Notable Books of 2007 - New York Times.

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		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2007/11/14/10-best-books-of-2007-new-york-times/</link>
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