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...ways of acting smarter, specifically by knowing more, which is what industry might hope to achieve by university conjunction, are not so easy. This is especially because the organizing of knowledge that industry requires and has long extracted from its own R&D, is a continuum between basic discovery and final manufacturing or applications engineering, with a huge component of development and engineering technology comprising its midsection...
Academic knowledge organization, however, abhors a continuum. It is usually constructed on departmental lines, where there is elegant discipline identification, often for good reasons of quality control. This identification separates basic chemistry from mathematical statistics and solid state physics, from process metallurgy and biogenetics from plant nutrition and so on. Now everyone says that it just remains for a good systems engineer or industrial technologist to integrate all these good sources of academic research and inquiry, and a new effective continuum can be synthesized...
...past and future. The present does not exist in a vacuum, memories of a great-aunt's youth are recalled and young Catherine learns of her lineage. Life continues, and we may be a bitchy, bickering family. Brown implies, but we are all related somehow in this mad continuum...
...Continuum--music of Ruggles, Babbit, Schnittke and Cowell; Sanders Theater...
...resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably obscure. He was praised by Thomas Mann and a host of lesser literati as a son of Kafka and a father of Ionesco, and seven of his books are avail able in English translation from Continuum Publishing Co. in the U.S. But, while Canetti's landmark novel Auto-da-Fé, originally The Dazzlement, and nonfiction magnum opus Crowds and Power have been occasional bestsellers in Central Europe, they never garnered a wide audience elsewhere...