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...UNFORTUNATE THAT A REPORT inspired by the chess-playing program of Deep Blue did not even bother to name IBM's Murray Campbell and Thomas Anantharaman, the scientists who were the program's authors. Artificial intelligence's other technical leaders were similarly ignored. When machines do think, it will be the scientists, not the showmen, who deserve the credit. MATTHEW GINSBERG Eugene, Oregon...
...that hardly stopped the city of Los Angeles from showering $85 million in tax credits and other incentives on DreamWorks SKG, the new Hollywood studio formed by moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. Also in on the deal were four high-tech companies, including IBM and Silicon Graphics, that are teaming up with DreamWorks to build an entertainment factory on 260 acres of wetlands where Howard Hughes once assembled his lumbering wooden "Spruce Goose" plane. DreamWorks wasn't leaving the area--it needs the specialized talent that lives there--yet Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan didn't want...
...that didn't mean that the public sessions and backstage consultations were entirely serene and bromidic. All the Governors, plus the 49 invited executives from some of the largest U.S. companies (IBM, AT&T, Eastman Kodak), agreed that public education is broken and woefully in need of fixing. "We have students," said Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, co-chair of the conference, "graduating from high school with diplomas that they can't even read, who can't write a coherent sentence or do basic math." The other co-chair, IBM chief executive Louis V. Gerstner Jr., whose critical remarks on education...
...DAVID PACKARD, 83, electronics and computer pioneer; in Stanford, California. The "Birthplace of Silicon Valley," an official California State landmark, is the garage where Packard and his Stanford University classmate William Hewlett opened a workshop in 1939. Today Hewlett-Packard is the nation's second largest computer maker (behind IBM). Packard eschewed corporate pomposity, preferring "management by walking around" to keep employee morale high and focus on achieving objectives. In the '60s, he met with Stanford students protesting his company's defense contracts, and later mediated talks between them and their school. His personable style and civic activism inspired...
...first such summit in 1989, national standards were the goal. Now, amid a bipartisan push in Washington to allow states to experiment in education and welfare programs, the governors have the ear of a private sector that is increasingly worried about mediocre graduates. "The American people have spoken," IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner told the group. "They do not want national standards." Gerstner and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson hosted the two-day meeting, where 41 governors will attempt to agree on higher scholastic standards that states should adopt within two years. Business leaders, in turn, will develop their own strategies, such...