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Users of the new Mac (estimated price: $6,000 or more) will have to develop their biceps to handle the machine, which weighs about 16 lbs., compared with 4 lbs. for small IBM-compatible portables. Apple is taking pains to call the machine a portable rather than a laptop, but...
Last month 35,000 to 40,000 Russians went on strike to protest those laws. Though the walkouts have been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory...
. In the pages of Books in Print, listed among works like Fuzzy Bear and Fuzzy Wuzzy Puppy, are some strange-sounding titles: Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Set Theory and Fuzzy Reasoning & Its Applications. The bedtime reading of scientists gone soft in the head? No, these academic tomes are the collected output...
But not, it turns out, in Japan. As they have so often in the past, the Japanese have seized on an American invention and found practical uses for it. Suddenly the term fuzzy and products based on principles of fuzzy logic seem to be everywhere in Japan: in television documentaries...
What is fuzzy logic? The original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the...