David Heckerman says spam, HIV present similar challenges
(NEWSER) - David Heckerman, the man who invented the spam filter for Microsoft, is taking on another scourge against humanity: HIV. Sound like a stretch? It’s not, Heckerman insists: He’s a medical doctor, and HIV and spam are strangely similar problems. "We have an adversarial situation going on between spam filters trying to block the spam and the spammers changing and mutating," he tells the LA Times . "And in the case of HIV, we have the immune system fighting the virus and HIV mutating to try to get through." More»
