News - Computer “love” will come when you least expect it...

 "Love" OF THE COMPUTER WILL HEAT
                  WHEN YOU'RE NOT EXPECTING IT AT ALL...

     Almost three decades ago in the Novosibirsk academic town
An international symposium of computer programmers was held on
the problem of creating artificial intelligence.  And one of the participants
kov of the discussion made a remark that caused laughter and applause in
hall: “I will in all seriousness submit an application to leave the human
quality, as soon as I hear the electronic machine say to another:
"I love you."

     At the same time, the author of these lines published in “Soviet Russia”
for December 27, 1971, notes from the symposium under the heading
"Will the computer say: "I love you." At that time the world did not yet know the word
"hacker". The sensation of recent days was someone who came from somewhere from
Southeast Asian computer virus "I love you" - in the form
message encoded in Englishwords "I love you".  Vi-
Russia torpedoed 45 million computers in a matter of days
many countries. In Sweden, 80 percent of users have already been affected.
lei of computers, in the UK - 30 percent, in the USA - 25
percent. The insidious virus is aimed at total destruction:
rushing into one computer, he immediately begins to send out his messages.
pi throughout the system, using all the addresses recorded in the email
ron memory of the affected computer.
     Even the “impenetrable” ones could not resist, at least partially.
electronic barriers of the Pentagon. Many giant concerns suffered
you're a Ford type.  Among those who swallowed the poisoned pill "I love
you" turned out to be the world's largest concern "Microsoft" in terms of production
production of computers and programs for them.  As if mocking Bill
scrap Gates, the owner of the concern and the richest man in the world
planet, the creator of the virus aimed it specifically at Microsoft
"Ausnitz" program.  According to experts, losses from the virus "I
I love you" have already exceeded 10 billion dollars, while in
last year, losses from all hacker attacks amounted to 12 billion
dov dollars.
 Meanwhile, experts issued a disappointing forecast: although
the latest hacker attack turned out to be the most destructive for
Computers, these are just the beginnings, but the berries are yet to come.
     A week has passedfruitless searches, and unexpectedly the culprits
The nickname of the planetary commotion appeared on its own and even more -
held a press conference in Manila. As world information sources reported,
tion agencies, 23-year-old Onel De Guzman, a college dropout
dent of a computer college, claims to have a mission of some sort
modern Robin Hood, opening the way for poor people to in-
formational treasures of the Internet. De Guzman, not without pride,
said at a press conference that he discovered the “Love Virus” back in
his thesis, which was rejected by the dean of the faculty
theta with a remarkable resolution: “We do not train hackers!”


Old age is not a joy

     InUSA there is alarm: mountains of computer scrap are growing. Out of 21 milli-
she personal computers decommissioned in 1998, 11 in total
percent went to recycling.  The rest ended up in landfills.
In the state of Massachusetts it is already officially prohibited to organize such
burials.
By 2004, more than 6 million computers will be
useless and only about 8 percent of them will be able to be installed
to be used as "recyclables".


 Three in one boat, not counting the computer

     Three comrades - mathematics students St. Petersburg
university Nikolay Durov, Andrey Lopatin and Oleg Eterevsky -
won the World Programming Olympiad.  From America
Kans received three thousand dollars each, from the governor - five
thousand rubles, from the minister on behalf of the president - via laptop,
and on everyone - a huge goblet of sparkling metal and five wooden
wooden tablets with a long name of the victory...
     The winners talk about the Olympics with reluctance: they say they won,
Well, why explain - how: you still won’t understand. The boys are tired
from attention to one’s own success, from the need to explain
difficult things for grown people who rejoice in a shiny cup,
like children. "It's time, it's time, let's rejoice... and the cup..."
     The annual student team world championship in the program
competition among national teams of universities is carried out by an authoritative
computer world internationalorganization ACM - Association
for Computing Machinery.The organizers do not hide the fact that this is, in fact,
ty business, testing the world potential in the field of programming
Vaniya, and at the same time - a world exhibition of young programmers.
     The last championship in Orlando, USA, was attended by about
There are 2,400 teams from more than a thousand universities. According to the rules, in
order of a team of threeone computer is provided
yuter, five hours and eight tasks.  In the final for first place, Boro-
There were 6 teams from leading universities in the world, including
dyMSU, St. Petersburg State University, Novosibirsk, Belarusian, and South Ural
(Chelyabinsk) rocyhubepcutetob, as well as another team from St. Petersburg
from the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics.
     TeamSPBSU won the title of champion for Russia for the first time
programming world.  Other Russians also performed well
Russian teams: MSU (17th, 3 solved problems), NSU (2nd place,
2 solved problems), South Ural State University (7th place, 2 solved
tasks). The Belarusian State University team could not withstand the colossal
nervous tension and got into the group with one solved problem
commands recorded in the protocol in alphabetical order.  Note that
that the MSU team took an honorable second place at the
the day before the main competition of the programming competition on
Java language.  Caltech team
took only 12th place. The Chinese teams performed very powerfully,
three of which were in the top ten.

 Commission !

     A commission from Germany came to Yekaterinburg to select
programmers to work inGermany.  According to eyewitnesses,
that the Germans have a shortage of programmers, and Russia has the best
Great programmers who meet international standards!!
:)) Maybe someone is lucky!