DEEP BLUE’s victoryoverKasparov has confirmedtheideas of thegenuineartificialintelligence researchers, but – and that is more important – it has also opened the eyes of the disbelievers. The latter group is now given to understand that (i) scientific progress in mimicking human chess performances can go as far as outperforming the World Champion, and that (ii) progress in one domain may be tran...

The MODIS Rapid Response (RR) System was developed to meet the near real time needs of the applications community. Generally, its products are available online within hours of the satellite overpass. We recently adapted the standard MODIS land surface temperature (LST) splitwindow algorithm for use in the RR System. To minimize latency, we eliminated the algorithm's dependency on upstream MODIS...

While playing against Deep Blue, Kasparov reported feeling an ’alien intelligence’ across the board: something that was undoubtedly thinking, but not in the way that any human thinker would. Kasparov feels he is defending the honor of the human race. If cloning a single sheep can put the leaders of the Western world into such a tizzy, one wonders how will they react to the prospect of inhuman m...

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project relies on geostationary (GEO) imager derived TOA broadband fluxes and cloud properties to account for the regional diurnal fluctuations between the Terra and Aqua CERES and MODIS measurements. Anchoring the GEO visible calibration to the MODIS reference calibration and stability is critical for consistent fluxes and cloud retrieva...

Consider a set of receptors belonging to two competitive telecommunication firms, the blue firm and the red firm. The receptors are represented as points in the plane, b are blue and belong to the blue firm and r are red and belong to the red firm. The blue firm has an emitting device represented as a point that moves along a path sending information to blue receptors as follows: At any time, t...

National identity is symbolically complex configuration, with shifts of emphasis and reprioritisations of content negotiated in contexts of power. This paper shows how they occur in one post conflict situation – Northern Ireland – among some of the most extreme of national actors – evangelical Protestants. In-depth interviews reveal quite radical shifts in the content of their British identity ...

Children at the age of 3 or less invariably got the answer wrong and assumed that Maxi would look for the chocolate in the green cupboard where they knew it was. Even children aged 4-5 had only a one third chance of correctly answering this question or an analgous question involving Maxi and his brother (who also wants the chocolate and whom Maxi wants to deceive). Children aged 6 or more were ...

This work presents the utilization of MODIS data for mapping chlorophyll spatial distribution along east coast of Malaysia. Four algorithms have involved in this study which were Aiken’ algorithm, Clark-3-Bands algorithm, Gordon algorithm and Normalized Difference Chlorophyll Index (NDCI) algorithm. In this study, the maximum amount of chlorophyll concentration value of 0.38 mg m occurred durin...

The accurate determination of aerosol optical depth (AOD) is great importance for climate change research and environmental monitoring. To understand the applicability MODIS product inversion algorithm in Gansu Province, this work uses ground-based solar photometer AOD observation data to validate C6 version product. Additionally, retrieval accuracy Deep Blue (DB) products Dark Target Fusion (D...