08/02/2011
Setting out the rules of engagement for cyber warfare;Composing music by staring at a computer screen;Gareth Mitchell takes off in a F15 jet simulator;Researchers discover regional dialects on Twitter
What should be the rules of engagement when it comes to cyber warfare? An international think tank has met in Munich to work out joint ways of limiting the threat of cyber attacks. Frank Coggrave discusses the outcome.
Tracey Logan reports on the brainwave that has led to a whole symphony being composed in the mind of a computer. And she visits the Centre for Computer Music Research in southern England to see how music can be composed simply by staring at a computer screen.
Gareth Mitchell is engaged in combat as he takes to Brazilian airspace in an F15 fighter jet. Luckily, although it's all too real an experience, it's only a simulator on display at Campus Party Brazil.
Twitter may be text based and only allow just a few words at a time but researchers have discovered there are still regional dialects in our Tweets. Jacob Eisenstein examines the results.
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Cyber warfare rules of engagement
Frank Coggrave discusses the possibly rules of engagement for cyber warfare.
Duration: 07:23
Tracey Logan's Computer Music
Tracey Logan discovers how music can be composed by staring at a computer screen.
Duration: 06:47
F15: Simulator
Gareth Mitchell tries out an all too real F15 fighter jet simulator in Brazil.
Duration: 03:22
Twitter Dialects
Jacob Eisenstein describes the findings of research into Twitter dialects.
Duration: 04:24
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- Tue 8 Feb 2011 10:32GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Tue 8 Feb 2011 15:32GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Tue 8 Feb 2011 20:32GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Wed 9 Feb 2011 01:32GMT91热爆 World Service Online
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