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Brutus.1, a system developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was designed to write short stories on the subject of betrayal--hence the treacherous name. To teach the innocent computer its sinful ways, the computer scientists who designed it set about "mathematizing the concept of betrayal through a series of algorithms and data structures." Most people might assume that betrayal is not easily mathematized, a subject for human emotion and not for symbol manipulators, but the computer seems to have picked up the vice rather well. (A Rensselaer press release states that the programmers also taught Brutus.1 something of deception, evil...
Tajiri signed a contract with Nintendo, which was impressed enough by his previous attempts at game programming to want to develop his latest idea. But he couldn't quite explain the concept to Nintendo, and the company couldn't understand it fully. "At first Pokemon was just an idea, and nothing happened," says Shigeru Miyamoto, the genius behind Nintendo's previous best seller, Super Mario Brothers. Miyamoto became Tajiri's mentor and counseled the younger man as he toiled on what would eventually be Pokemon. (Tajiri would pay ambivalent tribute to Miyamoto, giving the name Shigeru--Gary...
...exults Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber, right, with Roy Scheider), describing his concept for Citizen Kane (studio production No. RKO 281): "A titanic figure of limitless ambition...controlling the deceptions of everyone beneath him." Welles means William Randolph Hearst, the ruthless magnate he would nail in the movie that, owing to Hearst's power, almost went unreleased. The irony: like Hearst, the auteur was driven to selfish cruelty for his (artistic) ends. Despite Schreiber's intensity and charm, this film never plumbs its subject's soul as Welles' did, but it's an often absorbing study of free expression...
Wait! Come back! I'm not going to be offensive. It's not the concept I hate--it's the word...
...concept of international public health was very nebulous for me before I went to India and got to really experience the issues involved," she says...