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...gurgling stream cascades through lavish tropical undergrowth. Orchids twine among ferns; palm fronds weave a dense canopy. But those palms bend a trifle too symmetrically, and there is something mechanical about the way a monarch butterfly flutters its wings. In fact, "it's all an illusion," says Linda Lewis, creator of this ersatz jungle. She is in about as specialized a business as exists: creating artificial environments, including the synthetic palms at the Mirage in Las Vegas. It is a business, however, that has taken off worldwide in the past decade or so. As more and more states and localities...
...smitten. So I looked up Julia's creator, Michael Mauldin, who told me that he built the "chatterbot" in 1990 to reside in the virtual world of TinyMUD, an early experiment in online community building in the pre-Web Internet. Mauldin's idea was to use the all-text environment of the MUD to stage a so-called Turing Test--that is, he wanted to build a piece of software that could trick humans into thinking they were communicating with one of their own. It worked. "One guy hit on Julia for 13 days," recalls Mauldin, noting that although...
DIED. MARGUERITE HENRY, 95, creator of fiction's favored steeds--Misty of Chincoteague, Sham (of the Newbery Award-winning King of the Wind), Brighty and Black Gold; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
Thus it is that "Scud: The Disposable Assassin," an independent comic written and drawn by cartoonist Rob Schrab, is one of the latest comics to emerge from the comics underground into the glare of Hollywood's scrutiny. Creator Schrab attributes Scud's success to what he calls its multimedia appeal and its "surrealistically" funky style--both of which were probably factors in drawing Stone's attention in the first place...
...Creator of the Website School Sucks, Sahr is kind of the poster boy of the whole term-papers-for-sale flap on the Net. The issue resurfaced with fresh hysteria a few weeks ago, when Boston University filed a lawsuit against eight outfits that actually sell papers, via the Web, to students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download...