Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night, we were thinking about how to expand the process," Raman said. Tempus was "a natural extension of that--a logical step to then publish...
Thus Kevorkian, as he said later, "invited himself" to his own trial. It was his latest--and with Friday's guilty verdict, perhaps his last--attempt to provoke and expand the public discussion of euthanasia. "I had to raise the issue," Kevorkian told the jury. And he was unapologetic for using TV to get his point across: "This forum can get it to a stage quickly...
Milosevic's war in Bosnia to expand Greater Serbia ended in another defeat. To save himself, he had to knuckle under to international diplomacy. Ever ready to discard what has become harmful, he dropped his backing for Serb kin in the breakaway state, eventually making peace at their expense at Dayton in 1995. He turned this humiliation into another kind of triumph when he paraded on the world stage as a peacemaker equal to the superpower leaders negotiating with him. Yet he was no more a man of peace than he was a communist or nationalist. He simply did what...
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, insists there is plenty of growth ahead for his company and his industry. Dell cites Europe and South America as two areas where it can expand. The real problem, he says, is the impossibly high expectations of sales growth that analysts have set for his company. "They keep raising them and raising them. And you play that out logically, and at some point they put their guesses so high that they are not really achievable." Dell's first-quarter revenue is growing 38%, a spectacular number for most companies. But Wall Street...
...twitches is not the same as reading states of mind, particularly when the computer can make sense of only half a dozen expressions. But the newly trained machine should get a lot smarter in the not-too-distant future. In the next round of experiments, the scientists plan to expand the computer's recognition skills by teaching it to identify all 46 muscle actions in the Ekman catalogue. They will then program the computer to recognize the various combinations of these movements, pouring live video images of human volunteers directly into the machine's brain. Eventually, the research at Sejnowski...