Word: kyoto
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...alone identify myself with it. But for many non-Americans, our government’s recent policies reflect a larger society that is little concerned about anything outside its own borders. Between our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, our past opposition to both the Kyoto agreement on global warming and the International Criminal Court, and now Iraq, it was hard to argue with the guy. As The Economist noted just this week, “in private, much of Europe’s political class detests Mr Bush and what he stands for, which they think is throwing...
Mitsuo Kawato is fascinated with the brain--so he helped build one. The biophysics engineer and computer researcher led a team at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, Japan, that spent five years constructing a humanoid equipped with artificial intelligence. Completed in 2001, the 6-ft. 2-in., 175-lb. robot was named Dynamic Brain, or DB for short. Says Kawato: "We built an artificial brain hoping that it'll help us understand the real one." DB doesn't have the friendly exterior of its cute entertainment-robot cousins. Its face is composed of just "eyes," made...
Whitesides, who taught at MIT prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 1982, is one of the pioneers of the emerging field of nanotechnology. He won the National Medal of Science in 1998, and was awarded the distinguished Kyoto Prize last year for his work in the field of advanced technology...
...ARRESTED. ISAMU KANEKO, 33, software developer charged with creating a widely distributed Japanese-language file-sharing program similar to Kazaa; in Kyoto. An outspoken opponent of Japan's Draconian copyright laws, Kaneko is the first creator of peer-to-peer programs arrested there. He is charged with writing Winny, an application that allowed computer users to anonymously swap content, such as movies and video games...
...contrast, Akira describes his menswear as "a feminine collection but with a masculine shape." The Kyoto-born designer fashions clothes he'd wear himself - not a bad guide, since his "Comme des Gar?ons meets Bonds T shirt" style recently made the Sydney Morning Herald's best-dressed list. His reversible floral-print pants might not be for everybody, but his convention-defying couture should endure. "It's perfect in the wild," he says of his hand-washable linen suit. "You don't need a Laundromat or dry cleaner...