Perhaps the Writers Guild of America could link its screenplay Registry to the Prior Art Database or feed directly to the USPTO. Screenwriters routinely submit their manuscripts. In fact, almost no studio, production company or agent will look at an unregistered script. As of about 10 years ago there were around 7,500 scripts registered each year. That should cover just about any conceivable reductionist plot line. Perhaps we can make it so that these people will have to essentially write the full works in order to establish novelty.
Many thanks for the comments. One thing is clear, we need to revamp our advertising strategy. Our goal had been to minimize the impact of advertising on the reader experience, hence the lack of banner advertising and the positioning of the Google AdSense ads. A couple of questions: As a reader, do you care about ad placement? When do ads become annoying (in terms of number, placement, type...)?
Here's an excerpt from a TRN interview with NYU's Nadrian Seeman:
TRN: Sports, commerce, crime fighting and warfare are glamorized in our society. Can science be made sexy? What would it take?
Seeman: I don't know if sexiness is the way to sell science. Our educational system is pretty successful at stifling the natural curiosity with which we are all born. That would be a place to start.
...funded by DARPA. A search of the TRN archive returns 235 stories from the last five years that include the word DARPA and the phrase "computer science." The same search of Google Scholar turns up 18,200 research papers.
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Perhaps the Writers Guild of America could link its screenplay Registry to the Prior Art Database or feed directly to the USPTO. Screenwriters routinely submit their manuscripts. In fact, almost no studio, production company or agent will look at an unregistered script. As of about 10 years ago there were around 7,500 scripts registered each year. That should cover just about any conceivable reductionist plot line. Perhaps we can make it so that these people will have to essentially write the full works in order to establish novelty.
Many thanks for the comments. One thing is clear, we need to revamp our advertising strategy. Our goal had been to minimize the impact of advertising on the reader experience, hence the lack of banner advertising and the positioning of the Google AdSense ads. A couple of questions: As a reader, do you care about ad placement? When do ads become annoying (in terms of number, placement, type...)?
Here's an excerpt from a TRN interview with NYU's Nadrian Seeman:
TRN: Sports, commerce, crime fighting and warfare are glamorized in our society. Can science be made sexy? What would it take?
Seeman: I don't know if sexiness is the way to sell science. Our educational system is pretty successful at stifling the natural curiosity with which we are all born. That would be a place to start.
...funded by DARPA. A search of the TRN archive returns 235 stories from the last five years that include the word DARPA and the phrase "computer science." The same search of Google Scholar turns up 18,200 research papers.
... like the story we reported, wrote, edited and produced over at TRN.
... with a few more details: Nanoparticle dyes boost storage
... of this TRN story is here.
... about this a few weeks ago. "Nanowires make flexible circuits" TRN Oct. 22/29
... full story, which is available at Newsstand. (It will also be posted on the TRN website on Wednesday.)
...paper a couple of years ago. Programming goes quantum, TRN March 28/April 4, 2001
... a couple of years ago. Here is our story from then.
Here's our take on it: Molecule stores picture
Also at Georgia Tech. See the university's '98 press release.