Journal: NRO, KR to AF, Open IC?, Piracy vs Piracy

Struggling Spy Satellite Agency Tries to Right Itself National Defense January 2010 SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for developing and launching the U.S. fleet of spy satellites, is embarking on an ambitious plan to right itself after years of cost overruns and program cancellations. But two powerful senators have …

Journal: Stolen Valor & Ignored Suicides & Amputees

Military Impostors Are Neither Few Nor Proud Mary Schantag, co-founder and researcher for the POW Network, said her group’s Web site lists 3,500 “phonies and wannabes” who claim to be former prisoners of war, medal recipients, members of elite forces or heroic combat veterans. She said she receives new allegations daily. “This is an epidemic,” …

Worth a Look: Field To Market–The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture

Field To Market is a diverse alliance working to create opportunities across the agricultural supply chain for continuous improvements in productivity, environmental quality, and human well-being. The group provides collaborative leadership that is engaged in industry-wide dialogue, grounded in science, and open to the full range of technology choices. The Fieldprint Calculator is an educational …

Call for Papers: Deadline 31 Dec 09 Nature-Inspired Collective Intelligence in Theory and Practice

Special Issue on: NATURE-INSPIRED COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Call for papers – Special issue: Data Mining for Software Trustworthiness Call for Papers – Special Issue: Virtual Agent and Organization Modeling: Theory and Applications? Call for papers – Special issue: Nature Inspired Collective Intelligence Call for papers – Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE …