Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balance, and I thought, let me develop those limbo muscles," Mitchell said...
Virtually every major computer firm is racing behind Kurzweil to develop similar machines because their potential uses are almost unlimited. Executives could write notes merely by speaking into the computers, and eventually robots equipped with the devices could respond to spoken commands, like Artoo-Detoo of Star Wars fame. Though the technology is expensive (Kurzweil's VoiceWriter will probably sell for $24,000), industry experts expect the market for speech-recognition machines to burgeon, from less than $100 million this year to $2 billion by 1990. Kurzweil's closest competitor appears to be IBM, which two weeks ago introduced...
...concerned that overregulation could stifle many of the young, struggling biotechnology companies and suggest that there is a limit to the patience of larger firms. "If we can't make these tests in a reasonable period of time," says Howard Schneiderman, Monsanto's senior vice president for research and development, "I'm going to give up and just not do it. If someone is going to worry about a tomato plant that will devour New York City or a microbial pesticide that will develop into plague, I can't justify spending millions of dollars a year on products...
...example, it is inefficient to produce pork in desert areas like the Middle East because pigs thrive best on the same scarce fruits and grains that nourish man, whereas cud-chewing animals (cattle, sheep, goats) develop on high-cellulose brush plants that are hard for man to digest. The meat from pigs was thus considered not only bad to eat but "bad to think," hence the prohibition of eating the flesh of pigs, which were said to be dirty. According to Harris, pigs become dirty only when left untended, and so they get a bum rap. A pig prefers...
These efforts are suggestive. They indicate that research, even in its current state of development, can still throw valuable light on specific issues of immediate practical significance. Yet a comprehensive program of educational research cannot dwell only on current questions. We must also develop more reliable techniques for evaluating educational programs and teaching methods. To that end, we hope to launch next year a faculty seminar on assessment under the leadership of Professor Richard Light, an expert in problems of evaluation. This seminar, which will include representatives from other universities, will consider the current state of educational research. In time...