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...benign as possible is what gives his current job meaning. Even if the Web's most epic effects can't be anticipated or controlled, maybe they can be given some minimal degree of order. As director of the Web consortium, he brings together its members--Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Apple, IBM and 155 others--and tries to broker agreement on technical standards even as the software underlying the Web rapidly evolves. His nightmare is a Web that "becomes more than one Web, so that you need 16 different browsers, depending on what you're looking at." He especially loathes those BEST...
...voice trails off "...to seek the truth in love..." He is silent for a moment. His brain has failed him. Then inspiration strikes. "Maybe I can pick it up from the Web." In a single motion, he swivels his chair 180[degrees] and makes fluid contact with his IBM Thinkpad...
Kasparov stomped away from the board after resigning to IBM's highly touted technical wonder, angrily declaring that the contest had proven very little and that he had been demoralized ever since the computer's victory in Game Two. Even commentators were shocked at Kasparov's poor performance, as the grandmaster seemed to make some critical blunders early in the match...
...interesting question is: Why are people so interested in building a machine like Deep Blue? Obviously, IBM arranged the match as a gimmick to get publicity for its increasingly powerful computers. But why a chess match? One could understand a demonstration of technological prowess in the area of national defense, but chess...
...sharper point of contention with the public employees' union has been the Administration's months-long delay in deciding whether Texas Governor George W. Bush should be allowed to turn over the management of the state's cumbersome welfare system to private firms. Several companies, including Lockheed Martin and IBM, are eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed the gala...