Artificial Intelligence
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AI for Not Yet Techies

AI / Artificial Intelligence is advancing on too
many fronts to keep track of -- even the site
which is dedicated to AI!

The Pentagon is not only deployed unmanned drones
to take out the enemy (most notably, several key
members of Al Quaeda died when their car was
hit by a missile from a drone in -- I believe --
Yemen.), they're working on more of this.

I recently saw an Internet marketer mention that
you can now pay a service to a provide your site with
an animated "guide" for your visitors. This is no
doubt a harbinger of things to come.

Before too long, Microsoft's paperclip and
Hewlett-Packard stooped old man will have
multiplied into a zillion different character
animations (and perhaps real life personalities
renting out their likeness and voices for a
fee -- just as Bob Denver, Elizabeth Taylor
and other Grade B celebrities now do to
slot machine manufacturers) -- will be all
over our web sites, computers and household
appliances.

Guiding us, answering our questions and maybe
reminding us we left our keys in the car.

Soon robots will be able to repair and maintain
themselves.

To learn more, go to:

AI / Artificial Intelligence
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ADO.NET
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ADO.NET for Not Yet Techies


ADO.NET allows programs to get data from such sources as
Microsoft SQL Server and programs using OLE DB and XML -- a
more and more frequently used mode of data storage and
transmission. Just look at RSS and blogging. ADO.NET allows
programs to get the data and manipulate and update it.

Although ADO.NET is a part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, it
can be used to access data from other sources.

Little has changed with ADO.NET since its introduction about
3 years ago.

For more info, go to:

ADO.NET
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