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DENDRAL  – The First “Expert System”

DENDRAL – The First “Expert System”

DENDRAL was an influential project in artificial intelligence (AI) of the 1960s, and the computer software expert system that it produced. Its primary aim was to study hypothesis formation and discovery in science. For that, a specific task in science was chosen: help...

Vietnam deploys dancers to foil protests

(BGF) - According to AP News, in an effort to manage the wave of indignation of anti-China protesters, Hanoi's government deployed dancers to stop them from making speeches and getting close to the statue of Ly Thai To, the founder of Hanoi. Click here to read the...

Vietnam and China: A Dangerous Incident

(BGF) - A CCTV4 documentary video which appeared online in early January, provided a detailed history of the China Marine Surveillance (CMS), revealed an incident that occurred on June 30, 2007 between various government vessels from Vietnam and China in the disputed...

Philippines nabs 11 Chinese poachers

(BGF) - The Philippine showed its firm position when its Maritime police detained 11 Chinese fishermen and their boat off Hasa-Hasa Shoal, found nearly 400 live sea turtles on May 7. The seizure angered China as it claimed it has the sovereignty over the Ban Yue Reef,...

Chinese Signaling in the East China Sea?

Chinese Signaling in the East China Sea?

(Photo Credit: AFP/Japan Coast Guard) (BGF) - In this article, featured in The Washington Post, M. Taylor Fravel and Alastair Iain Johnston, professors at MIT and Harvard University, respectively, analyze recent data on the frequency of Chinese coast guard patrols off...

Philippines files evidence against China’s claims

(BGF) -  In a news conference, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told that the Philippines submitted documents, consist of nearly 4,000 pages of analysis and documentary evidence, to the tribunal in The Hague against China's territorial claims in the South China...