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• 'Oldest' computer music unveiled.
  "A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music. The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester. The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of "Baby", the forerunner of all modern computers." 17 June 2008. (more)
• Opportunities For Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine.
  Pharmacogenomics is the study of how variation in human genes leads to variation in drug response. One of the major promises of the genome project was to improve medical outcomes for patients by using knowledge of their genetic background. The PharmGKB (Pharmacogenomics & Pharmacogenetics Knowledge Base) is an NIH-funded resource at Stanford University charged with supporting the research community in pharmacogenomics, by storing both genetic variation information and drug-response information, building tools to help scientists visualize and analyze the data, curating the pharmacogenomics scientific literature (both manually and through text processing algorithms), representing pathways of genes that work together to affect drug response, and providing expert annotation of current pharmacogenomic knowledge.. Feb. 22, 2006. (more)
• Overview Talk on Informatics by Edward "Ted" H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD., presented at the Biomedical Informatics @ Arizona State University Symposium 2006.
  An overview of the field, from inception to current trends, and suggestions for how to establish a new Biomedical Informatics academic program. January 19, 2006. (more)
• Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence.
  Lecture at Stanford by Stephen Omohundro, Self-Aware Systems. "We are on the verge of a radical new paradigm for both computer software and hardware. "Self-improving systems" will have detailed models ... all » ... all » of their own designs and will improve themselves by learning from their own operation. They will continuously adapt themselves to the tasks they need to perform. Eventually they will be able to improve every aspect of themselves: their programs, programming languages, specification logics, instruction sets, and hardware architectures. In this talk we present fundamental principles that underlie the operation of this kind of system. ... We conclude with a discussion of some of the broader social implications of this kind of system.". October 31, 2007. (more)