Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deep Thought was fine-tuned with the moves of 900 games played by human grand masters, but its real strength comes from two high-speed computer chips, plus a unique strategy that allows it to project 20 moves ahead along the most promising lines of play. How fast would a computer have to be to overtake + Kasparov? Some 100 to 1,000 times faster, says Feng-Hsiung Hsu, the Taiwan- born graduate student who designed Deep Thought's chips. "It's not out of the question, " says Hsu. "But it would take a few years...
...through the calendar, museums in the U.S. and abroad will be mounting shows that will attempt to map the many lines drawn by what Talbot boasted was "the pencil of nature." The first, and one of the most ambitious, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures...
...device remained for decades an exotic box, a contraption mostly for adventurers and the wealthy. That changed after 1888, the year George Eastman introduced the inexpensive Kodak. Amateur photography became the new folk art, and fine-art practitioners had to scramble for a way to distinguish themselves from the mobs of snapshooters. Their response was pictorialism, an international style of soft focus, poetic yearnings and darkroom tricks that were beyond the abilities of the untrained. During the pictorialist phase of their careers, Alvin Langdon Coburn in England and Edward Steichen in the U.S. turned away from mere realism toward...
...prints show the new building from five different angles, floor by floor like a large layer cake. They show the future locations of the new Fine Arts Library reading room, the new galleries and display rooms and the renovations to be made in the Fogg. The two large colored prints show what the new museum should look like on the outside: squarely angular and covered with square slate and pink granite tiles arranged strategically. Samples of the tiles themselves are displayed nearby...
...integrated with its famous neighbor, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which was designed by French architect Le Corbusier. The ramp from the Carpenter Center which now opens into the unused rear of the Fogg will lead to a plaza and the new main entrance to the Fine Arts Library...