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...years failing at various academic careers and a couple of marriages before reinventing himself and heading off to Stanford. There, he and his students designed a microchip he called the Geometry Engine, which allowed computers to visualize objects in 3-D. Fruitlessly, he tried to license the thing to IBM, DEC and Hewlett-Packard, before starting Silicon Graphics to sell workstations with the chip. That's where Clark honed his distaste for venture capitalists, whom he saw as stealing his enterprise and putting it in the hands of managers. Clark never let that happen again, keeping control when...
...microsuck does it again," said one angry player on the site's bulletin board. Others complained of "ballot stuffing" and "lies, lies, and more lies." But it hardly seems likely Microsoft would so clumsily sabotage the game, especially after fellow techno behemoth IBM proved its might by using its most powerful computer, Deep Blue, to defeat Kasparov in 1997. Nor was the match one for which Kasparov was particularly pumped up, says Taylor. "He was going into it as an experiment to get more people involved in chess. He told me he was expecting a draw... This [botched e-mail...
Pretty neat, you think? Just wait until the third generation of shopping agents moves out of the lab. Even now, folks at M.I.T. and IBM are preparing for a world in which every transaction becomes a complex trade deal between a pricing bot acting for the site and a shopping bot acting for you. "Dynamic pricing, that's the big notion," says Professor Pattie Maes, director of the software-agents group at the M.I.T. media lab. "After all, fixed prices have been around only for a couple of hundred years...
This bot-driven universe won't arrive until a few kinks have been ironed out. Right now, says Jeff Kephart, manager of the agents and e-merchant phenomena group at IBM, price bots don't understand that undercutting your competitor is not always smart. "This gives rise to price wars," says Kephart, who in tests has watched the sell bots give the store away in a competitive frenzy. "They're pretty dumb," he notes. "We have to give them a sense of anticipation...
...benefits. (The company denies the charges.) A similar case is set to go to trial next spring against Onan Corp., a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co. Says William Carr, an attorney representing workers in the case: "These plans are a profit center." Only now, considering the outcry, companies like IBM will start to wonder whether the costs outweigh the benefits...