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Russia world chess champion Kasparov disparaged IBM's Deep Blue computer, which defeated the world's best chess player in 1997, as a passing entertainment akin to the wind-up automata of the 18th century. A strong human Jeopardy! player, or a human doctor, may get the answer wrong, but he is unlikely to make a huge blunder... 

I came across the following publicity advertisement for an upcoming seminar jointly organised by MUIS and NUS Middle East Institute. The topic of the lecture is "Psychology and Sociology of Suicide Bombers". What appalled me was the theme of the seminar - "CULTURAL SEMINAR". http://www.mei.nus.edu.sg/mar42011poster.html It... 

Dear TR editors, With the GE most likely to be held a few months from now, are there any plans in place by TR on how to handle the expected increase in article/letter submission during this period? Given that the campaigning period is only one week, I'm sure you will agree that this period will be critical, and you would want...