Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While stressing cultural pluralism, student groups will display subtle, individual points of their cultures that many students may not be aware of. Ndiaye, who is from Senegal, said that many students picture romanticized images of Africans with drums and grass or imagine that Africa is one country...
...nearly as well as a person. To demonstrate the point, "Robots and Beyond" invites visitors to walk in front of two cameras. The computer hooked up to one camera has been programmed to notice only moving objects; a second computer notices only objects that remain still. The results are displayed on twin video screens: a waving hand appears in one image as a few lines of sparkling static; in the other it is invisible. Even more sophisticated is a nearby display that has adapted an industrial vision system to scan ordinary objects like combs, keys and coins. As long...
...salute. When Reagan went on to propose yet again a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, something he has never come close to achieving, the Democrats responded with loud groans of "awww" -- something they never dared when the President was riding high. To some in the chamber, the partisan display was an omen of deadlocks to come. Said Minnesota Republican Senator David Durenberger: "It means the next two years are going to be difficult ones here...
...Boston exhibition, robots display their growing intelligence by talking, drawing, feeling, seeing and playing a game...
THERE WAS A time when a man's urine was his own business. If there was something wrong with it, he might go to a doctor. Otherwise, he didn't give it much thought. He did not bring it to parties, or leave it on display in the front hall. He certainly did not present it to prospective employers...