Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handful of nations around the world have entered a high stakes race to develop faster and more efficient supercomputers. Ten billion dollars have been committed to such research by industries around the world. The investment, however, is only a fraction of the envisioned spoils; the winner will corner a five-hundred billion dollar-a-year market of information-age business. The ultimate Prize is even greater-the development of artificial intelligence...
...history and Islamic culture, and some perspectives of a people conquered and integrated into so many other cultures. One of the Latin Americans was surprised to find that their architecture was heavily influenced by the Arab world, while one Fellow felt ashamed because the Romans had managed to develop a sewage system which his own country does not yet have...
Although Mao Zedong (Mao Tsetung) publicly disdained atomic weapons as paper tigers. China was determined to develop a nuclear capability whatever the cost and sacrifice--if necessary, "going without trousers," in the words of a former foreign minister...
Until recently, there was little incentive for the Japanese to develop a software industry of their own. Software was usually custom designed by computer manufacturers and included in the price of the machine. Hardware engineers were granted higher pay and had more status than software designers. Language and culture also presented formidable barriers to Japanese software makers trying to penetrate the U.S. market. In developing tax-computation programs, for example, it is not easy for computer experts in Tokyo to try to keep up with legal changes in the U.S., some 5,000 miles away...
...Bird and Julius Erving. Micro Education Corp. of America in Westport, Conn., is beginning to introduce programs that carry the names of well-known writers: Andrew Tobias' Managing Your Money ($199.95) and James F. Fixx's The Running Program ($79.95). Both Tobias and Fixx say they helped develop the software, though neither is a programmer...