BBC's Johnston wins AI award
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BBC reporter Alan Johnston wins an Amnesty International award, hours after being freed by kidnappers in Gaza.
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How does it feel to be the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science award? Sweet, indeed, says Frances Allen, the IBM Fellow Emerita who this week received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award.
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Science & environment: The robot devised by Ivan Bowman makes remote working and interacting with his colleagues much easier, says Matt Walcoff.
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The Press Association has appointed Clare Johnston to a newly created role of editorial director (Scotland and Ireland). Based in Edinburgh, Clare will represent the agency to wire customers of The Scottish ...
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One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award's 40-year history.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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JERUSALEM, June 25 -- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a new Internet video Monday wearing what he said was an explosive vest and warning that he will be killed if there is an attempt to secure his release by force.
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JERUSALEM, June 1 -- Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a video posted Friday on a Web site used by al-Qaeda in which he said he is being treated well and called for an end to sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
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The BBC has a long and glorious past as a technological innovator.  Throughout the history of broadcasting, it has often been the first to develop and promote new technologies.   Sadly, it seems now to be teetering on the brink of making technical choices that will not only damage its own reputation as a world-class institution, but which will also have serious knock-on consequences for free software.
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The BBC leads the nominations for the Bafta Interactive Awards, including for the Radio Times site.
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"They have fed me well. There has been no violence towards me at all and I'm in good health"  Kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston said he was in good health and being treated well in a video released on Friday, the first since militants abducted him in the Palestinian enclave over 11 weeks ... via Reuters UK
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A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like talk for the third time.
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The BBC News website has been given unprecedented access to the talented staff and ground-breaking technology at Industrial Light and Magic.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, Palestinian sources close to negotiations for his release said.
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A screensaver and social network for people with Alzheimer's wins a Microsoft-led software design prize.
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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston said in an Internet video issued by his captors on Friday that they had treated him well.