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Friday, June 13, 2003

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Moore's Law and Communications points to Martin Hellman, emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford: "I prefer an equivalent version of Moore's law that says computing costs decrease by a factor of ten every five years. [...] This rapid and steady decrease in the cost of computation has been like a mountain spring that feeds a river. Those of us in the developed world live on the banks of this river and have derived great wealth and other benefits (e.g., non-invasive medical diagnosis through CAT scans and MRI)." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

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Skulls of Oldest Homo Sapiens Recovered: "Scientists have unearthed in Ethiopia three 160,000-year-old skulls that they say are the oldest near-modern humans on record. Telltale marks on the bones suggest that the hominids engaged in mortuary rituals." [Scientific American]