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Before the Wiener gift the poverty studies center had lacked major funding. Officials said the new money would go to house the institute and to endow two professorships in poverty and health...
...complexity), but it relies on an as-yet-unproved technological advance: replacing silicon chips with faster ones made of gallium arsenide. Add to Cray's headaches the fact that his new computer is so compact that assembly by hand is difficult. Before production could begin, he would have to endow robots with the manipulative skills of a jeweler or watchmaker...
...sculptor. Some of his key paintings, such as the Prado's extraordinary Atalanta and Hippomenes, in which he achieved a grand synthesis of Caravaggism and classical diction, are missing from Fort Worth. But it is quite clear from a work like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife that Reni could endow human figures with a Caravaggio-like density and passion while pointing the way for a classicism still to come. The figure of Joseph, moving away in its sandals and serene quadrant of ocher cloak, might be striding toward his eventual home in one of Poussin's paintings...
...just the opening salvo in a monumental legal battle. The dispute pits two of the best-known figures in the industry against each other: John Sculley, 49, president of Apple; and Bill Gates, 32, chairman of Microsoft. It also seems calculated to derail the plans of IBM to endow its computer line with the "user friendly" features pioneered by Apple's popular Macintosh model...
...years, the two grand quests of computer science -- to design ever swifter supercomputers and to endow machines with artificial intelligence -- have each proceeded as if the other did not exist. Now, spurred by technological breakthroughs and an explosion of commercial interest, these two avenues of research may be converging. See TECHNOLOGY...