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Projects in the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research initiated during Gates' tenure include the Black Periodical Literature Project, a compilation of works in black newspapers and journals; the African Art Database, which contains 20,000 slides; and the Encyclopedia Africana...
...hard to see why cops in a police state find Pramoedya an embarrassment and a danger. A final irony in this rich lode is that for several years Pramoedya has suffered from writer's block in regard to his fiction. Presently he is working on an Indonesian encyclopedia. "Indonesia is still an abstract concept for me," he says wryly. An encyclopedia, he thinks, might help make this diffuse country of 17,000 islands and 365 languages and dialects a more graspable reality. For his readers, the Buru Quartet has already done that...
...novels, is only a matter of time until even moderately famous writers get the full biographical treatment. The last year saw new biographies of Antoine de St.-Exupery, Andre Breton, and William Morris, to name just a few. And truly major writers are guaranteed at least a handful of encyclopedia-length biographies--three new books on Thomas Mann appeared in the space of a few months last summer...
...food," for example, or "You're wet when you sweat." CYC knows nearly a million of these rules now, and when it has another million or so under its belt, Lenat asserts, the program should be savvy enough to need no more spoon feeding. It will just swallow the encyclopedia whole and then ask questions about whatever it doesn't understand...
...Topping most wish lists are consumer-electronics items ranging from Apple laptop computers that can cost thousands of dollars to kid's gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation ($300) are also likely to be in big demand this year...