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With talents in a variety of fields, Jen never settled on a career in writing while at Harvard. By the time she graduated, she had not taken any fiction classes or written any short stories...
...That’s where I had my first fiction class. Really, all I went to were my fiction classes, not the rest of them,” she chuckles. “I basically did everything wrong...
...writing the kinds of books that I wanted to read." Her first novel appeared when she was 40. With her eighth she accomplished that rarest of literary feats, a crossover hit: The Stone Diaries was an international best seller and a critical triumph, winning the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Room with a Mind of Its Own Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a room-sized artificial intelligence system on show at the 2002 Swiss National Exhibition in Neuch?tel until Oct. 20 - is living proof. Developed at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Ada is a mirror-clad room outfitted with its own electronic eyes and ears...
...there are no hot line connections with these guys), that's another matter. We need to talk about it, we are talking about it, all the time. It is certainly not a topic for popular culture, especially the movies, to shy away from. It's always useful for a fiction to focus on, and help (if only temporarily) discharge our anxieties. You can't finally blame the people responsible for "The Sum of all Fears" for flunking this test. While they were making the movie last year, they were not privy to any FBI memos from Arizona about some weird...