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...combination of neural networks and expert systems could solve problems too tough for either to tackle alone. Since natural intelligence consists of several ways of reasoning, the argument goes, computer engineers will have to design artificial intelligence with more than one way of processing information. Says Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, a computer-industry newsletter: "A neural network will tell the difference between a Russian tank and an American tank, and an expert system will tell whether to shoot...
...more vigorous exercise without things beginning to hurt." Unlike the hunchback racers of old, this year's hottest models are more comfortable and more durable than earlier ones. "It's really hard for a good bike to break down these days," says Chuck McCullagh, publisher and editor of Bicycling magazine. "People can go out and get fit and not have to worry about the damn thing...
Helmet sales are on the rise, particularly since sleeker designs and lighter materials have replaced the Darth Vader look of the early headgear. "People will wear a helmet if they look halfway decent in it," says Bicycling Editor McCullagh. The BFA estimates that of the 1,000 cycling deaths last year, more than half could have been prevented if the rider had worn a helmet...
Even Nature's editors had a hard time swallowing the results of the research, which was directed by Jacques Benveniste, a laboratory head at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The initial findings were apparently reproduced by scientists in France, Canada, Israel and Italy. Nonetheless, the report was accompanied by an editorial by Editor John Maddox that was almost apologetic. "There are good and particular reasons," he wrote, "why prudent people should, for the time being, suspend judgment." Last week Nature forthrightly rejected the idea of water with a memory and relegated it to the deep freeze...
...Editor- in- Chief: Jason McManus...