Return of the chess-playing supercomputer
News This time, mankind will be represented by Grand Master Michael Adams, who at 33 is the UK's top chess player. Michael Adams contemplates his first move The six-game contest between Adams and Hydra will run from June 21 to June 27.
[May 24, 2005, 18:25]
Love Notes for iPhone and iPod Touch
Downloads This app features collection of sonnets from Petrarch, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Michael Drayton, poems from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christopher Marlowe, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, tap button to send email copy of each poem...
[October 17, 2009, 5:44]
Grandmaster fails to slay the Hydra
News UK chess grandmaster Michael Adams has been soundly beaten in his titanic struggle last week against Hydra, a supercomputer. Adams, the UK's top chess player, lost five out of six games, and only managed a single draw at London's Wembley Centre.
[July 1, 2005, 13:10]
Chess grandmaster to battle supercomputer
News The latest battle between man and machine will kick off at London's Wembley Centre on Tuesday afternoon, when UK's Michael Adams becomes the latest human chess player to take on a supercomputer. In a contest that has echoes of Gary Kasparov's epic...
[June 21, 2005, 11:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rage, sadness and nostalgia saturate the Net; everywhere you look on Usenet, in weblogs, news services and personal pages there are people mourning the passing of Douglas Noel Adams, writer. If you can have a fervently atheist patron saint of the...
[May 18, 2001, 21:47]
NetAid - feed the world again please
News The full line-up will include sets from Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Bush, Catatonia, the Corrs, Eurythmics, George Michael, Stereophonics, Paul Oakenfold, oh and of course Mr ubiquitous. Tune in to Switzerland and you can swing your pants to the...
[October 8, 1999, 13:31]
Hackers drop spyware into popular tool
News Another HLUG member, Russell Adams, had been installing Snort, an open-source intrusion detection system that uses the libpcap library, when a test that matches the software package with a unique fingerprint failed.
[November 15, 2002, 7:40]
Office XP faces hard sell
News In the case of Ford, Chief Information Officer Marv Adams will explain how the company uses Office XP's XML support to electronically notify suppliers about component needs. Despite those endorsements, Microsoft may find Office XP to be a tough...
[May 31, 2001, 13:50]
Combo chips to upsize Wi-Fi
News Gee, let's go into a low-cost, low-margin business and try to take on established players," Bill Frezza, general partner in Adams Capital Management, said, characterising the business plan of some wireless start-ups.
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
