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...things his baby can do. "It sits there waving its arm around, watching its arm, reaching for things," he says. These are pretty standard tricks for newborn humans, of course, but then Brooks' "baby" (nicknamed Cog) isn't exactly human. It's a vaguely person-shaped concoction of metal, plastic and silicon, with cameras where its eyes should be and eight 32-bit microprocessors for a brain. Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world the way babies do, programming and reprogramming itself through interactions with the people and objects around it. And Brooks...
...city can handle most snow storms simply by salting roads, Medieros said. But when accumulation tops three inches, Cambridge's 30 plows take to the streets "with the metal [plows] on the roads," he said...
...play, which alternates between outdoor scenes and the dungeon-like atmosphere of the recovery center. Set designer Kate Khamsi '95 deserves kudos for rendering both the interior and exterior settings with a bleak but psychedelic flair. Inside the recovery center, for instance, the common room is decked out in metal, with a silver duct-taped couch and a plant partially painted silver. These touches do more than conjure up images of Warhol's factory; they remind the audience how robotic pharmacueticals can make people...
...circumstances, the audience is left praying for more use of the center open stage as relief for necks sore from craning to see the surrounding side platforms. And speaking of sore body parts, the agonizingly long three-hour play does nothing to add to the comfort of the hard metal chairs upon which the audience is seated...
After driving down the right side of the ice, Higdon let loose a wild shot that sailed wide and high. Like a gift from above, the puck found a silver of metal on the boards and bounced right back to Higdon all alone in front of the net. Higdon didn't even know what happened until his teammates yelled at him from the bench to turn around. He then picked up the gift and put it away for the final goal of the game...