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Barring a major recession, the industry will break records next year, but some executives are getting nervous. There is still an overhang of loans coming due from the past building cycle, even as new money keeps pouring in. Warns Holiday Inn Worldwide chairman Bryan Langton: "Right now everybody's having a good time. We are a very seductive industry. People lose money in it, and they still come back. As sure as day follows night, the next five years will experience a down cycle...
Nobody claims to have created true artificial life -- yet. But some have come intriguingly close. Christopher Langton, a researcher at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, gets credit for coining the term artificial life. $ He was fiddling in the mid-'80s with programs known as cellular automata when he stumbled on a loop-shaped figure that could spontaneously reproduce itself. "That was a watershed," he says. "If you could capture self- reproduction, what else could...
...same with life in general. Contends Langton: "Artificial life will be genuine life. It will simply be made of different stuff." This is the leap of faith made by a growing number of scientists, many of whom are associated with the Sante Fe Institute, a research facility that is the center of the artificial-life movement. "They feel like they are taking the first step into taboo territory," says Steven Levy, a New York City-based author who is writing a book on artificial life. "It's almost a religion...
First Period--1, H, Young 6 (Ciavaglia, Bourbeau) 1:58; 2, H, Weisbrod 4 (Melrose) 10:17; 3, H, Ciavaglia 2 (Weisbrod, Sneddon) 14:03. Penalties--B, Langton (hooking) 0:27; H, Melrose (interference) 6:01; H, Farden (roughing) 14:34; H, Weisbrod (roughing, 4 minutes) 20:00; H, Ciavaglia (roughing) 20:00; B, Kreick (roughing) 20:00; B, King (roughing, 4 minutes) 20:00; H, Bourbeau (roughing) 20:00; B, Harvey (cross-checking, served by Lombardi...
...Donato, Hartje) 7:53; 5, B, Brewer (Kreick) 11:21; 6, H, Weisbrod 5 (Krayer, Ciavaglia) 14:25. Penalties--B, Pritchard (interference) 2:25; H, Presz (interference) 5:27; H, Ciavaglia (roughing, 4 minutes) 15:07; B, Ernst (roughing, 4 minutes) 15:07; H, Hartje (tripping) 18:51; B, Langton (slashing) 19:14; H, MacDonald (highsticking...