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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liposome Co., an enterprise specializing in the production of small membranes used to assist in administering medications and one of the biotechnology industry's hottest success stories. One of Lobo's current favored companies is Biomagnetic Technologies in San Diego, which has developed diagnostic imaging equipment to read brain functions. Nonetheless, she predicts that "it will probably be another three to five years before I can say this or that company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's an Addictive Life | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Using computers as a metaphor for the mind is not the most productive way to gain knowledge of the brain, a panelist in the symposium, "Mind and Machines: Philosphical Perspectives," said yesterday...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Intelligent Beings In Search of a Good Metaphor | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

Using computers as a metaphor for the brain rather than making a more direct comparison underestimates the importance computers can have in our understanding of human intelligence, Newall explained to an almost capacity crowd in Boylston Auditorium...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Intelligent Beings In Search of a Good Metaphor | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...start-up companies, Encore and Sequent, are finding a ready market for more modest parallel machines. Meanwhile, research teams across the U.S. are experimenting with even more radical designs. Among them: AT&T Bell Laboratories computer circuits that mimic the action of the billions of neurons in the human brain. "It's a time for experimentation," says Illinois' Smarr. "There are 1,000 flowers blooming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Letting 1,000 Flowers Bloom | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...Guamanians, it's a typical brain-drain phenomenon--come to the States experience all sorts of new things, and decide to stay in the States. It's still a hard decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guamanian Out of Water | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

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