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...Cross Talk You're on vacation in China, trying to get directions to a hotel, when you realize you've left your Mandarin phrase book on the plane. Fortunately, you have your Pocket PC, equipped with IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. MASTOR recognizes both Mandarin and English, automatically translating what it hears into the other tongue, so two people who speak different languages can have a conversation. In a TIME test, when told the phrase "I would like to rent a motorboat," MASTOR translated it audibly and flashed a picture of a boat onscreen. Although...
...tell you an instructive little story. Call it the Parable of the Concept Car. "Here's what you find at a lot of companies," he says, kicking back in a conference room at Apple's gleaming white Silicon Valley headquarters, which looks something like a cross between an Ivy League university and an iPod. "You know how you see a show car, and it's really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat...
There are two lessons to be drawn from that story: one about collaboration, one about control. Apple employees talk incessantly about what they call "deep collaboration" or "cross-pollination" or "concurrent engineering." Essentially it means that products don't pass from team to team. There aren't discrete, sequential development stages. Instead, it's simultaneous and organic. Products get worked on in parallel by all departments at once--design, hardware, software--in endless rounds of interdisciplinary design reviews. Managers elsewhere boast about how little time they waste in meetings; Apple is big on them and proud of it. "The historical...
...week to discuss the specifics of how the money will be used. The last time the Coop made such an effort was in the 2001-2002 academic year in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, when members were given the opportunity to donate their rebate checks to the Red Cross, Murphy said. According to Chadbourne, students were very supportive of and instrumental in the decision to allow the donation to hurricane relief. “It’s a great idea that we’re going to be giving back to the hurricane relief effort...
...figure, known as the King, appears—direction, reassurance, and food in hand. To convince Thomas to commit himself to the mission, the King appears in a dream, and Taylor writes, “Thomas looked into his eyes, and he realized they were the eyes of the cross, deep blue, warm, all-seeing, all-knowing. He felt naked before him, as if this man knew all about his life. Every secret, every lie, every ugly thought was on display...