MIT develops software to command unmanned jet

MIT develops softwareto command unmanned jet
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT researchers have found a way to let a pilot in a plane control another, unmanned plane, through voice commands. The hard part? Teaching planes to understand English.
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describe their aircraft guidance system as a sort of ideal wingman -- one willing and able to understand commands, maneuver into danger spots and quickly change course when faced with sudden obstacles or revised battle plans. Meanwhile, its human controller flies behind in safer, higher airspace.
MIT worked with Teragram Corp. to create a natural language interface through which the two aircraft communicate and coordinate actions. The system allows for communications "at a high level -- not just 'turn right, turn left,' but 'fly to this region and perform this task,"' said Mario Valenti, a Boeing Co. engineer who is on leave studying at MIT.
Blogs fail to live upto hype during campaign
NEW YORK -- The conventional wisdom during this election campaign was that bloggers were its stars. But sometimes the Internet makes things look bigger than they are, as pundits declared after Howard Dean flamed out.
The Web sites that got the most hits Tuesday belonged to the mainstream media many bloggers deride, according to ComScore Networks Inc., which measures Web traffic. (One caveat: Traffic counts may or may not be more reliable than exit polls, but they're good for a rough measure.) CNN.com got more than 5 million visitors Tuesday. Sites for The Washington Post and Fox News got more than 1 million, according to ComScore.
Compare that to numbers for Blogspot.com, a site that hosts thousands of blogs, and whose hits Tuesday didn't crack 400,000 according to ComScore. Dailykos.com, a Democratic favorite, ran an emotional open thread where posters wrote about their experience voting, but it attracted fewer than 100,000 readers, according to ComScore.
Guilty pleasure Wonkette didn't break 50,000 readers, according to ComScore.
Associated Press