Today's Topics:
GWB 666
if this thing gets into the wrong hands
SubG found in Stanford CS department
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Message-Id: <9403171829.AA19036@debussy.media.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: GWB 666
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 13:29:37 -0500
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
From: somebody else
On today's (3/17) _The_700_Club_ they ran a segment on
supercomputing. All of their film was from a visit to
Los Alamos National Laboratory. Only two people were
interviewed on-camera, Peter Lohmdahl and David Forslund.
The main segment didn't say anything controversial. They
showed some film of a row of Connection Machines, and some
computer simulations. Problems being attacked included
ocean temperature modeling, "advanced brain modeling", etc.
It was said that transportation research can account for
every vehicle in a city. A molecular dynamics simulation
was shown in which a cube was impacting on a surface.
You could see phonons, crack propagation, etc. It was said
that this technique simulates every single molecule in the
system.
After the segment, Pat Robertson put his own spin on it.
He talked about how the Beast will control every single
human being, can determine where they are, how much money
they have, what they spend it on, etc. How this was once
a fantasy, but now with supercomputers it is a possibility
that "it all feeds into some giant brain". _The_700_Club_
is offering a "fact" sheet on supercomputers and the
consequences "if this thing gets into the wrong hands".
For your FREE fact sheet _Supercomputers:_How_Will_They_
Change_Your_Life_ call: (800) 716-3228.
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From: David Gingold <gingold@think.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 13:41:33 EST
Message-Id: <9403171841.AA09313@strident.think.com>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: if this thing gets into the wrong hands
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 12:59:57 -0500
From: dm@hri.com (Dave Mankins)
To: silent-tristero@world.std.com
Subject: Mark(eting) of the Beast
Thinking Machines in the News...
In article <106690@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
> On today's (3/17) _The_700_Club_ they ran a segment on
> supercomputing. All of their film was from a visit to
> Los Alamos National Laboratory. Only two people were
> interviewed on-camera, Peter Lohmdahl and David Forslund.
>
> The main segment didn't say anything controversial. They
> showed some film of a row of Connection Machines, and some
> computer simulations. Problems being attacked included
> ocean temperature modeling, "advanced brain modeling", etc.
> It was said that transportation research can account for
> every vehicle in a city. A molecular dynamics simulation
> was shown in which a cube was impacting on a surface.
> You could see phonons, crack propagation, etc. It was said
> that this technique simulates every single molecule in the
> system.
>
> After the segment, Pat Robertson put his own spin on it.
> He talked about how the Beast will control every single
> human being, can determine where they are, how much money
> they have, what they spend it on, etc. How this was once
> a fantasy, but now with supercomputers it is a possibility
> that "it all feeds into some giant brain". _The_700_Club_
> is offering a "fact" sheet on supercomputers and the
> consequences "if this thing gets into the wrong hands".
>
> For your FREE fact sheet _Supercomputers:_How_Will_They_
> _Change_Your_Life_ call: (800) 716-3228.
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Message-Id: <9403171836.AA19051@debussy.media.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: SubG found in Stanford CS department
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 13:36:04 -0500
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
From: The Computists' Communique <laws@ai.sri.com>
Abdelghani Attou, 26, has been arrested on fraud charges.
He has been posing as a PhD candidate in CS at Stanford, using
borrowed office space, auditing David Rumelhart's neural-network
courses, attending research meetings, and even giving a talk.
He falsely claimed to be a visitor from Oxford University, a
doctor, and the son of a Swiss ambassador. It is alleged that
he borrowed thousands of dollars from at least a dozen people,
ran up $1,500 in phone bills, passed bad checks, skipped out
on housing payments, skipped bail, and possibly other crimes.
"Universities are fertile ground for those who feed off the
gullible." [S.L. Wykes, SJM, 3/9/94.] (The woman friend who
bailed him out put up $500 for a $5000 bond, and would have lost
the full $5000 if Attou had not been caught.)
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