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...commands, Rob can search through the necklace of satellites that rings the earth and pick up any one of 150 TV channels. He can also dial the telephone, adjust the angle of his bed, dim the lights, dictate letters, play video games and write computer programs on the Carnegie-Mellon University computer network in nearby Pittsburgh. Next January he will start taking college-level courses by satellite...
...matched the sophistication of Rob's system. "It's | a state-of-the-art application of 2 voice recognition," says an im| pressed Ronald Cole, speech| recognition expert at Carnegie| Mellon. "It is easily the single "most direct example of the technology upgrading someone's life...
PITTSBURGH--Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) may soon take a big step forward into the computer age and require that every student buy a terminal wired to a to-be-built school system...
...banks were beaming about their third-quarter profit performances. Citicorp reported a July-September operating income of $210 million, a 56% gain over the same period a year ago. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank scored a 38% earnings rise for the quarter, and at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank profits were up 35%. Even Chase Manhattan, which lost $16 million in the second quarter, managed to post earnings of $124 million, 7% higher than a year...
...Schlesinger Library houses one of the great national collections of books on women's history. The Bunting Institute brings promising women scholars to Radcliffe, creating a lively female academic community nearby. And the Murrey Research center conducts social science research of interest to women in addition. Radcliffe supervises Mellon Fellowships, which produce scholarships on women's studies on a national level. While none of these is geared specifically toward the individual Radcliffe undergraduate administrators seem convinced that undergraduate women cannot help but benefit from them nevertheless...