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Crackdown at Carnegie Mellon...
...years universities have turned a blind eye to the Internet traffic passing through their computer systems -- including the sexually explicit words and pictures in such USENET newsgroups as alt.sex and rec.arts.erotica. Those days may be over, at least at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to a new policy scheduled to go into effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill advised. "The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd...
...Dante II had successfully negotiated a steep, muddy descent and ambled unconcernedly through hot steam and poisonous gases. But even a 10-ft.-tall, 1,700-lb. automaton has its limits, and multiton chunks of rock moving at high speed were beyond Dante's. "That big one," said Carnegie Mellon University robotics expert John Bares, pointing nervously at a video screen after a rockslide, "would've wiped...
Dante II is the brainchild of Bares and William ("Red") Whittaker, the principal research scientist at Carnegie Mellon's robotics lab and a legend among robot designers. Whittaker helped design the machine that cleaned up the Three Mile Island reactor after its near meltdown in 1979, and he oversaw development of a system that will automatically inspect the heat-resistant tiles on NASA's space shuttles...
...from any sort of flight opportunity," he acknowledges that much of the technology used aboard Dante II will probably find its way into future space missions. In fact, NASA wants to launch a robot explorer toward Mars as early as 1996. And a private company working with Carnegie Mellon scientists hopes to send a Dante-like robot to the moon in 1997. The purely commercial purpose: to gather images for a gamelike, virtual-reality tour across the lunar surface...