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...Bill Clinton and George Bush before him, will begin in 1999 with fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math. The tests are supposed to serve only as a benchmark to assess educational progress, but they could one day lead to nationwide graduation standards. Now Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and IBM chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., co-chairs of last year's Education Summit, are adding to the pressure, enlisting companies to pledge that they will look at young applicants' academic records, including exit-test scores, rather than rely only on interviews and job-skill tests...
KASPAROV TALKS BACK TO IBM...
There is more than one good reason for Deep Blue to give Garry Kasparov a rematch [TECHNOLOGY, May 26]. First, the chess champion gave another chance to IBM when he defeated Deep Blue last year. Second, Kasparov is a dynamic player whose participation is instrumental to IBM's soaring reputation. PIERRE GARON Verdun...
...computer network. While Stanford's mainframes could crush even the most recalcitrant differential equations, they couldn't pass messages. The mainframes spoke a different language from the desktops at the library, and so on. The solution: a wire-stuffed box that performed a kind of simultaneous translation, enabling IBM machines to talk to Digital machines, wife to send grocery list to husband. By 1990, as the first hints of the Internet emerged, the company went public. The founding couple left, while Cisco began its sprint to stardom...
Chambers learned those lessons at IBM and Wang Laboratories, successful companies that staggered under the pressure of growth. At Wang he had to fire 4,000 employees. It left a mark. "Everyone makes the same mistakes," he says. "They get too far from customers and too arrogant...