In one of the most ambitious efforts along this track, IBM was scheduled to announce a $4.9 million grant from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research into creating intelligent computers.
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Dell introduces their new Inspiron series the inspiron mini 9, Its lightweight and it runs on Ubuntu 8.04. It is also for budget conscious people and it starts at $349.00. It has complete connectivity features and a glossy panel.
The famous Hans Reiser the developer and founder of the ReiserFS file system software--was found guilty in April of first-degree murder in the 2006 killing of his wife. The famous Linux programmer convicted of killing his wife was sentenced Friday afternoon to 15 years to life in prison.
Namesys, the company run by Hans Reiser, has fallen off the face of the Internet, but the file-system software it was commercializing is still under development by volunteers.
In a report by Wired's David Kravets that before he was formally sentenced, Reiser vowed to make up to society for what he had done and said he was putting Namesys and ReiserFS into a trust fund for his children. Reiser added that he hoped to earn money for his kids while in prison, assuming he's "able to get access to a computer and the Internet," according to Kravets.
