ZX Pilot #19 12 февраля 1998

about different - Computer News.

    About MISC



   In the United States was the World Congress of the hackers - 
computer "hackers" hunted "opening" the protection of the most 
sophisticated computer programs.


   The result of their activities is wide: from the "hacks" for 
release on free market with cheap copies of protected computer 
games licensed before creeping into the network of the largest 
banks and withdraw money with other people's accounts.


   To participate in this conference came a half thousand 
people. In mostly teenagers and young men under the age of 20 
years. It's funny that many have come to the convention 
incognito to avoid being taken for the police computer "tricks" 
that were organized in their countries. 

   Another funny thing is that the congress was held in Las 
Vegas, known gambling center, where the "hacking" purses 
customers in the luxury casino - it is quite common. 



   Well-known Russian company's largest software provider,
allowing to translate from a foreign language, even a person of 
foreign does not know perfectly, the programs that automate the 
input into a computer text, tables, forms, letterheads, and 
also providing Recognition of handwritten digits (family OCR 
FINE READER), the program LINGVO CORRECTOR (spell check in 5 
languages) and te te, as they say, and te pe - this well-known 
Russian company suddenly lost its popularity. Dobravolno. She 
decided to change name - quite a risky step for the company, 
which has eight. Nevertheless, BIT Software in the presence of 
400 guests during celebration 
svoeobrazdnogo-computer-anniversary in the disco club "Utopia" 
announced: now we ABBYY. 

   Why? "For the love of art - is the name we like more -
lshe. To me it looks like the pipe center Georges Pompidou in 
Paris, "- said David Yang, President. Reason Two. Pragmatic: in 
the world BIT'ov lot and no one ABBYY. In connection with the 
beginning of active operations in the international market is 
very important. 

   Translate into Russian ABBYY refused even Alena Abramenko,
Head of Communications and Public Relations. "Call us simply 
Abi" - says she is too pristavuchim journals - sheets.


   However, really, is it really so important, what is the 
Clerk - Dietel companies have invested in a new name. Much more 
important to BIT Software has continued to translate texts and 
other "rubbish" the language of mutually accessible, 
facilitating users to their hard life.




   In the Japanese city of Nagoya ended World football 
championship among the self-propelled, samobegayuschih 
samoprygayuschih and automata All sizes and types. It won a 
victory at Southern California University of robots and the 
Japanese Osaka University. 

   In a bitter struggle, they routed over thirty electronic
teams from eight countries, fighting on the ruthless Olympic
system: the loser is eliminated.

   Intelligent robots behind the famous "Deep Blue", who beat 
Kasparov took to the field in the 15 th International 
komferentsii on artificial intelligence.


   As it should be in football, the players assigned to 
electronic several "leagues", depending on growth: from 15 
inches to 1.2 meters. And played at different venues - one on 
the table for pingpong, who - on a standard football field. 

   Experts believe that California's robots and their 
colleagues from Osaka won because each robot "thought" and 
"felt" independently with the help of embedded computer 
systems, rather than served as a pawn, blindly obeying the 
commander-computer manages the entire team samobeglyh iron 
boobies. As experts believe, the results of experiments set out 
in the this unusual championship, will be taken into 
consideration when designing, say, robots or robotic 
fire-soldiers of the XXI century. 


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