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By Robert McMillan, IDG News

Aug 4, 2011 6:30 pm

Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009.

Wallace, 43, allegedly used aphishing attack to steal usernames and passwords from victims and then used the stolen credentials to post spam to victims walls, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Wallace allegedly made money from the scam by driving Web traffic to affiliate marketing companies, who pay their members by the number of clicks they can deliver to websites.

The charges are outlined in an indictment, filed July 6 but made public Thursday after Wallace turned himself in to federal authorities.

Wallace gained fame as one of spam’s most vocal defenders back in the 1990s and he has faced numerous civil actions over his activities, including lawsuits from MySpace and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

However this is the first time he’s facing criminal charges.

Wallace has also been sued by Facebook, which won a US$711 million civil judgment against him. As part of that judgment, he was banned from Facebook, and the criminal indictment accuses Wallace of contempt of court for allegedly logging onto the social network during an April 2009 Virgin Airlines flight from Las Vegas to New York. Wallace also allegedly set up a Facebook profile in January of this year under the user name  David Sinful-Saturdays  Fredericks.

“We applaud the efforts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI to bring spammers to justice,” Facebook said in an e-mailed statement. “Now Wallace also faces serious jail time for this illegal conduct. We will continue to pursue and support both civil and criminal consequences for spammers or others who attempt to harm Facebook or the people who use our service.”

Wallace could get more than 16 years in prison, if convicted.

He was released Thursday on a $100,000 bond. His next appearance is set for Aug. 22 at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, California

Shaw Capital Management: I.B.M. Utilizing Bits of Watson for Medical Research

Earlier this year, I.B.M.’s Watson computer defeat two humans “Jeopardy!” champions that reveals, the triumphant demonstration of the company’s technology. It had been best for Big Blue’s impression; however it wasn’t a moneymaker by itself.

But this method will be under way. Watson became a bunch of innovative technologies, which includes speech recognition, machine learning, natural-language processing, data exploration and ultrafast in-memory computing devices. They’ve been under advancement with I.B.M. for many years, were taken in to Watson.

The components which proceeded to go in the Watson arsenal will be continuously being added to I.B.M. items. For instance, health insurer is attempting over a system that utilizes Watson-style software to lessen repetitive lab tests.

The newest admission will be introduced on Thursday, I.B.M. Strategic Intellectual Property Platform. Obviously, the Watson branding team didn’t develop this particular label.

However, this isn’t regarding television, where Watson performed; it’s pertaining to significant corporate clients in search of aggressive advantages. The technology, marketed like a cloud-based service, is definitely the response to many years of shared development among IBM Research and four firms – AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont and Pfizer.

The perception platform utilizes data mining, natural-language processing and analytics in order to pore by way of countless patent filings as well as biomedical publications to consider chemical substances utilized in pharmaceutical breakthrough. It looks for names involving substances, associated terms, and images from the compounds, the names of firms handling particular chemicals and molecules, and also the titles of scientists who come up with copyrighted innovations.  The speedily, finding information about patents within 24 hours following the recording.

“It provides a landscape that shows who is working with what chemicals and drugs,” claimed Chris Moore, head of business analytics and optimization for I.B.M.’s worldwide providers unit.

The technology, Mr. Moore stated from online sources by Shaw Capital Management, does apply to anything from product technique to recruiting to patent administration.

Being a consequence of their research, I.B.M. can be increasing a huge, retrievable substance databases stored by the National Institutes of Health.

The company is adding over 2.4 million chemical substances obtained from 4.7 million patents and 11 million biomedical publication components through 1976 to 2000.

The data had been all, however frequently in costly scientific periodicals or hidden in the mountains of patent filings. It had been so hard to get into it has been, for those useful reasons, unavailable.

“It’s a nice contribution to the field of open chemistry – and that’s a growing trend, inspired by and similar to open source software,” explained Marc C., head of the computer-aided drug discovery group at the National Cancer Institute that is area of the National Institutes of Health.

I.B.M. data contribution, it appears, will be both generous and calibrated. The chemical compound data from patents will go through to 2000. Thus the vast majority of might be about patents which have previously terminated, helpful for medical research yet much less useful commercially. The second, undoubtedly, shall be of greatest interest to I.B.M.’s paying customers.