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Second, pre-game parties will be moved from the Harvard Business School parking lot to Soldiers Field, in part to "help [the police] monitor and control activities...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alcohol To Be Off-Limits at Future Harvard-Yale Game Tailgate Parties | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

...still shudder when I hear that the Undergraduate Council of the richest university in the United States has to collect "ePloids" from Frito-Lay bags in order to replace its 10-year-old computer. Was I the only one who found it hard to swallow that the monitor on the council's computer required a paper clip to turn...

Author: By Geoffrey F. Reed, | Title: An Endowment for All | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

Under Calixto's watch, the University is trying to monitor similar misuses of the Harvard name worldwide...

Author: By Patrick S. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Wins Name Dispute in S. Korea | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

...machines will emerge as true collaborators. They will have sufficient understanding of human language and culture to monitor trends on their own. And since they will have the speed (and patience) to read most of the world's literature and websites (albeit still not with the discernment that comes with full human intelligence), they will identify market opportunities on their own and bring them to our attention, along with their own suggested designs. We will then try out their creations either in virtual-reality simulations or as actual physical products produced by rapid prototyping machines. By this time, the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Virtual Thomas Edison | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...illiteracy and poverty. However, deeply intertwined with these gains will be profound new risks. New concerns will include such questions as "Who is controlling the nanobots?" and "Whom are the nanobots talking to?" For example, organizations (e.g., governments, extremist groups) could distribute trillions of undetectable nanobots that could then monitor, influence or even control our thoughts and actions. Nanobot self-replication run amuck could have the potential to create a nonbiological cancer. And as for intelligent robots, how can we be sure they will remain our faithful servants, or even our friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Virtual Thomas Edison | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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