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...Pentagon procurement scandal cost 89 people their jobs when Unisys, the computer maker, canceled all its contracts with tiny, Florida-based Armtec, a manufacturer of electronics used in radar systems. Since Unisys is Armtec's main customer, the action forced the company to shut down its operations. Federal agents are investigating Armtec as a possible conduit for illegal payments from Unisys employees to federal officials involved in arms procurement. In particular, the Government is studying the relationship between Unisys, Armtec and Congressman Bill Chappell Jr., a Florida Democrat ^ who is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on defense...
Instead of programming a neural-network computer to make decisions, its maker trains it to recognize the patterns in any solution to a problem by repeatedly feeding examples to the machine. The computer responds to each example by randomly activating its circuits in a particular configuration. The trainer electronically reinforces any connections that produce a correct answer and weakens those that produce an incorrect one. After as many as several thousand trials, the computer activates only those circuits that produce the right answer. "It works just like a kid," says Farrokh Khatibi, senior product manager at AI Ware...
July 31, Toy Maker...
Earlier this week a judge in U.S. District Court in Boston found that the world's most famous maker of disposable razors was guilty of printing a misleading ad during a vicious proxy battle last year...
...shake the habit. The defense argued that she could have given it up sooner had she really tried, as millions of other smokers have managed to do. The jury, apparently not fully persuaded of her determination to quit, decided the responsibility for her illness was 20% the cigarette maker's and 80% her own. Since New Jersey law says that product-liability awards can be given only if the defendant is at least 50% to blame, Cipollone's estate received no award, even though her husband won the $400,000, which the defense lawyers accuse the jury of handing...