Mechanical Turk(MT)

Coincidentally, i read an interview with Sharon Chiarella who is the  Vice President of Amazon.com. Thanks to Nelson Zhang, we've got very interesting details about Mechanical Turk.

As i learned;
Actually for MT, as the concept of MT  contains many fields, it deserves to be a new blog for MT.

A mentined interview, some of the responses are taken into my consideration.
Question is the meaning of MT.

So the question as follows :

What’s the meaning and significance behind the name “Mechanical Turk?”
So the response as follows :
"The name Mechanical Turk is a historical reference to an 18th century chess-playing device. The original Mechanical Turk was powered by a human chess player who was hidden inside the actual device. Typically, a human makes a request of a computer, and the computer does the computation of the task. But Mechanical Turk inverts that.

The computer has a task that is easy for a human but extraordinarily hard for the
computer. So instead of calling a computer service to perform the function, it calls a human. This is reflected in both our service name and our use of the phrase “artificial, artificial intelligence.”"

My ACM Your ACM

ACM stands for Association of Computer Machinery.

This Society provides various benefits for own members.

For professional members: SafariBooks online services, Book 7x24, Acm Communication membership and so on.

Last year ACM announced the blogs.

If you are interesting in computer engineering, data mining, software engineering, your way intersects with ACM.

https://myacm.acm.org/ is the login page for members.

ACM membership cost of Outside US members  is less than  US members.

Lets go!

Hey ho ho :P for neverland pirates on disney channel :)

For Operating System Programmers

Yes, it is!

All the times book is called as "PC Intern" for system programmers.

Parallel Port does still exist?

I think that, No matter what programming language is yours, before start to be programmer: You should read this book.

All about OS are in this book!

Calling System.gc() is good or not?

According to many developers, Garbage Collection(GB) is triggered by calling Calling "gc" method of System Class. But many developers said that, the VM may or may not decide call GB.

The Latter also emphasize that calling GB is depends on a lot of factors such as VM's algorithms, it's working mode and so on.

When we look at the Class Specification,calling "gc" method is runs garbage collection. The source is as follows:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html

Flash Flush :) Flash

Yahoooo.
My dream came to be true.

WWW in other words W3C opens communities to developers finally.

Many many years ago, i wanted to participate and finally W3C's policy is changed.

Actually, i found this changing is late but it is better to not to be :).

Yes dear developers, if you are interested in  this community groups you can join free :).

For more information please pick on this following link:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/08/subject_from_innovation_to_sta.html

When the day it comes to Digital Tattoo

Very new suprise is of course from US.
Digital tattoo :)

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38296/?p1=A3

It is nice suprise but i can imagine the new beginings with this digital invention for human being.

He he :).

if you have such a this tattoo, prevent yourself from Sun, magnetic area and so many dangerous things. 

This is the another news about tattoos :)
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38065/?mod=related