Government Watch: Transatlantic food fight

Partnership for food safety education--"Fight BAC!".

Doctors v. government: the first major fight over pay.

Doctors refuse to compromise, says one side. The government cares more about its budget than patients, says the other side. Doctors have rejected a “very fair offer,” says a provincial health minister. Patients can’t wait for the government to balance its books, says a medical association. You know, this all sounds mighty familiar. Much of the rhetoric thrown around today in scuffles between go...

Food Security and Government Intervention

All human societies must solve a set of problems related to food. The first of these is to procure edible plants and animals through some form of production process. Early humans relied mainly on hunting, fishing, and gathering all of which are still practiced in the modern world. About 10,000 years ago, certain plants and animals were domesticated giving rise to new methods to produce food. Cr...

Watch them Fight! Creativity Task Tournaments of the Swiss Olympiad in Informatics

As part of the qualification process for the Swiss Olympiad in Informatics, the contestants are each year confronted with one “Creativity Task”. Unlike typical problems in programming competitions, creativity tasks usually do not have an optimal solution, and are often adaptations of popular board or computer games. After receiving all submissions, a tournament is organized, where the students ...

Watch What I Watch

This paper presents a high-level overview of Yahoo Research Berkeley’s approach to multimedia research and the ideas motivating it. This approach is characterized primarily by a shift away from building subsystems that attempt to discover or understand the “meaning” of media content toward systems and algorithms that can usefully utilize information about how media content is being used in spec...