Computers and Internet

Junior Johnson guilty (Lexington Herald-Leader)

16 May 2008

Charles "Junior" Johnson, a Lexington native who became a billionaire before he was 40, was found guilty Thursday on charges of fraud in a scheme that toppled Las Vegas-based PurchasePro and the executives who headed it. Johnson, who founded the Internet company that became a sensation during the technology bubble of the 1990s, could face up to 20 years in prison for conspiracy and five years ...

KHS takes part in program that gets computers to needy kids (Kewanee Star Courier)

16 May 2008

Kewanee High School students made it possible for a child somewhere in the world — maybe in Afghanistan, maybe in Nigeria — to have a computer for writing letters, sending e-mails, surfing the Web and doing about anything else that can be done on personal computers.

Web surfers wanted: help make computers smarter (The Times and Democrat)

16 May 2008

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.