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Competition for the student research posts is intense; last year only 10 students were selected from a pool of 300 applicants. The great majority of student researchers are from MIT, but one, Oren W. Etzioni '86, is a Harvard undergraduate...
Modern computers are usually "the exact antithesis" of the human bram, says Etzioni, who works in conjunction with Hewitt. While the brain works relatively slowly yet can do several things simultaneously, the computer runs quickly but can handle only one thing at a time...
...Oren W. Etzioni '86, who has lived in Israel, says volunteering for PAIR was a form of "individual patriotism." Etzioni says that his contribution will be to help transfer computer technology between America and Israel...
After decades of a "build and forget" policy abetted by irresponsible officials who were only too happy to hand on problems like maintenance and repair to their successors, the nation has no choice but to reorder its priorities and search for long-term funding. As Sociologist Etzioni has declared: "America had a big party that lasted 30 years. We overconsumed and underinvested, and now we have to pay the piper." - By Ed Magnuson...
...knows how much it would cost to modernize the entire infrastructure of the U.S. economy. Pat Choate, co-author of the America in Ruins study, estimates that the task could take as much as $3 trillion, roughly the amount of the annual gross national product at present. Amitai Etzioni, director of the Center for Policy Research, believes that more than $400 billion should be invested over the next decade on railroads, highways and bridges. The total value of all government-sponsored construction on those projects last year was $23.4 billion...