Word: digester
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...Cambridge for the summer has just got to be all the exciting news stories that unfold right before one’s eyes on an almost daily basis. For those who do not have the pleasure of being here to witness the action firsthand, here is a brief digest of what has transpired on campus in the steamy midsummer days and nights of June and July...
...Messier's first mistake was in perhaps biting off more companies than he could easily digest, his fundamental error in France was that he made enemies along the way with his insistence that American business culture was the future model that Vivendi would have to follow to be successful, a notion that rankled coming from a man who led both France's public water utility and one of its cultural centerpoints, the pay-TV company Canal Plus...
...pecuniary reasons." Whatever his motives, the Motion Picture Association - which notified ?kokrim about DECSS - has highly pecuniary reasons to fight such activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses due to piracy." Big business feels the same way about the work of other programmers, from...
...question that is, to me important...at the school level is whether we digest this experience in a way to bring us out to be a more open environment or whether what happens here just further shuts us down,” Nesson said. “At Harvard Law School, we assemble the greatest legal minds not to talk about fundamental issues...
...final verdict on whether Wolfram's New Kind of Science is truly revolutionary--or whether cellular automata merely resemble rather than describe the world--will have to wait until scientists can digest it fully. And that could take a while. "Each idea in the book," says Sejnowski, "will take at least 10 years to explore and test." Provocative as Wolfram's theories are, he says, it's whether they agree with nature that will be the ultimate test...