Kopf gegen Chip: http://www.stern.de/sport-motor/sportwelt/577120.html 

Interview with Kramnik: http://www.stern.de/sport-motor/sportwelt/577085.html 

English translation: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3504

The starting fee for the world champion is 500,000 Euros. If he wins the match Kramnik gets one million Euros. Between him and the second half of the prize sum stands a machine that examines around six billion positions before it makes each move.

But it is not just about the money. If the world champion should lose this match against Deep Fritz, and lose it badly, one would have to admit that our electronic slaves have overtaken their human masters in yet another area of intellectual activity. Kramnik knows this full well. “Perhaps I will be the last top player to face this challenge,” he said.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17734&ch=biztech

YouTube, which had 27.6 million unique visitors in September, according to Nielsen NetRatings, came along at just the right time, according to Time: social-networking Web sites were hot, camcorders were cheap and do-it-yourself media was expanding beyond text-based blogs.

For starters, blogs today are so cheap to create and operate that a lone blogger or a small team can, with the ever-expanding reach of the Internet, amass vast audiences and generate levels of profit on a per-employee basis that traditional media companies can only fantasize about.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/smbusiness/business2_nextnet_intro/index.htm

We are in the early stages of what might be better thought of as the Next Net. The Next Net will encompass all digital devices, from PC to cell phone to television. Its defining characteristics include the ability to interact instantaneously with any of the more than 1 billion Web users across the globe — not by, say, instant messaging, but by evolving instant-voice-messaging and instant-video-messaging apps that will make today’s e-mail and IM seem crude.

The Next Net is deeply collaborative: People from across the planet can work together on the same task, and products or tools can be rapidly tweaked and improved by the collective wisdom of the entire online world.

The new wireless, or “Wi-Fi,” network, is believed to establish Mountain View, Calif., as the largest U.S. city with totally free Internet access available throughout the entire community …

Murdoch gamble pays off as MySpace takes over 

Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945&chanID=sa006

… chess has served as the greatest single test bed for theories of thinking–the “Drosophila of cognitive science,” as it has been called.

Seated around an arrangement of tables were Chambers; David Gardner, chief operating officer of Electronic Arts; Hector Ruiz, chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices; Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist for Google; Shantanu Narayen, chief operating officer of Adobe Systems; Jim Ward, president of LucasArts; Jonathan Schwartz, chief executive of Sun Microsystems; John Hennessy, president of Stanford University; Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer; and Mark Hurd, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.

The group had some unlikely advice for Blair. The key to Silicon Valley’s success, they said, was failure.”Each of us had one massive failure: a company we founded or an investment we made,” Narayen said after the lunch.”If you have taken a risk and you failed, you potentially become more interesting and more valuable because now you know something,” Schwartz agreed.

Schwartz, whose company was founded by Stanford University graduate students in 1982, said the relationship with the university did not end after the founders moved off campus. That connection continues to this day, and is one of many similar relationships that helps Stanford craft a curriculum that prepares its students to continuously come up with new technological breakthroughs.