Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Friday, July 2
View Article  Marion the Robot Librarian
by DavidAkin on Fri 02 Jul 2004 11:01 PM EDT
[A press release received today says:] "A team of researchers from the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the University Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, Spain, has created the first automat capable of performing the tasks usually carried out by a library clerk. The robot uses speech-recognition to identify the book ...   more »
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View Article  Why they don't watch local TV news (in St. Louis, anyhow)
by DavidAkin on Fri 02 Jul 2004 08:51 PM EDT
========================================= [From the June 30 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch] Readers Explain Why They Don't Watch Local News By Gail Pennington St. Louis Post Dispatch We asked; you griped. Encouraged to comment on St. Louis TV news, more than 100 Post-Dispatch readers weighed in with their pet peeves. Many ...   more »
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View Article  Canada's Supremes say no to an Internet tax on music
by DavidAkin on Fri 02 Jul 2004 03:50 PM EDT
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision on an important and significant Internet music case, known in legal circles as the Tariff 22 case but known among those who are not lawyers as the SOCAN case. I put together a story for CTV's National News...   more »
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