To the Editor: Computer viruses are designed to be pests, proliferating in uncontrolled ways and causing severe damage to electronic data.
Yahoo editors, not computer programs, will decide whether an item will be placed on the portal's front page, which receives more than 90 million visitors in the United States each month.
But his efforts to use both human editors and computer programs to make a better search engine fell flat, he said, because they would not work across the breadth of topics people are curious about.
A key editor's computer equipment was destroyed, and e-mail evidence was lost.
We give him a fragment of a smashed-up hard drive, a memento of the Guardian's tangles with GCHQ: a year ago this weekend, senior editors destroyed computers used to store Snowden's documents while GCHQ representatives watched.
This past fall, headlines around the world trumpeted the Marlowe-Shakespeare connection, and spotlighted the editors' methodology: computer-aided analysis of linguistic patterns across databases of early modern plays.
Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.That raises questions about the effectiveness of the NAO.
Andy Robinson, editor of Computer and Videogames, said that three decades on, the awards still "represent the voice of gamers worldwide".
To the Editor: If computers are taking over complex but routine white-collar tasks, the current obsession with testing in schools is exactly wrong.
In order to view the sequence chromatograms in the new "Trace Editor", client computers need to have a recent version of a standard WWW browser (Netscape or IE version 4 or higher) and Sun's Java Plug-in (1.2 or higher) installed.
