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...reasonably deny that those of us who are HIV positive are obliged to act responsibly to prevent further transmission of the AIDS virus. Amitai Etzioni's view, however, is grossly wrongheaded ((Essay, Dec. 13)): for years the gay community has been taking concrete steps to educate people on how to prevent transmission of HIV. He utterly fails to address the irresponsibility of a society that neglects to educate its children adequately on AIDS ! prevention and relies on exhortations to abstinence rather than providing condoms, the most effective available means of prevention...
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Search engines are good at matching words across websites but have struggled with nuance to answer questions in everyday language. Google today can answer basic factual queries. The next step is semantic search--looking for meaning, not just matching key words. Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington computer scientist, uses language-analysis programs to power KnowItAll, which scans documents for facts--Oswald killed J.F.K., for example. So far, KnowItAll has extracted 900 million facts--enabling it to answer questions. Nosa Omoigui, 33, a former Microsoft researcher, founded Bellevue-based Nervana, which analyzes language by linking word patterns...
...transition points." Yet the rate of change has leveled off, and Norton thinks the U.S. is entering a period of relative stability. Other experts, noting such diverse signs as a rise in patriotism, improvement in aptitude-test scores and disenchantment with sexual promiscuity, tend to agree. Says Sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University: "People are tired of experimentation. This is the beginning of an age of reconstruction." --By David Beckwith. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington
...discussion following the lecture, Richard Sobel, a research fellow at Harvard Law School, opposed several of Etzioni's assertions, challenging that Etzioni was too ready to surrender privacy rights...
Michael J. Bocian, a second-year student at the KSG who spent two years helping Etzioni do research for his book, invited him to speak at the school when he learned the professor would be in the Boston area...