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...Chen has set up his own company to develop a machine 100 times as fast as any currently on the market. "People say that IBM is just dipping its toes into the water," notes Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an IBM vice president. "We're in the middle of the ocean...
...knowledge systems store information in frames, which organize it along with its relevant attributes. AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky of M.I.T. noticed that when people enter a room, they have a set of expectations about what they will find -- a desk or chair, perhaps, but certainly not, for example, an ocean. His idea was to package information in a way that accommodates those expectations: a room might also contain a bed, window and lamp. Minsky's frame concept allowed for more efficient use of the computer by enabling it to find what it needed directly, minimizing blind searches...
MORE erudite undergraduates seek something cultured and scenic. They flock towards Mexico or the Carribean Islands, where the ocean is blue and the drinking age ignored. The most difficult part of this sort of trip, though, is gathering information and making arrangements. One of my room-mates spent the better part of an afternoon shrieking, "Habla Ingles?" into a telephone without getting an intelligible response--but it might have been the connection...
...ancient block, which once adorned the temple entrance, has sat, almost unnoticed, at the institute since 1967. It bears an exquisite carving depicting the Hindu god Vishnu, who is said to have created the world from an ocean of milk. Thailand wants the lintel returned in time for the official unveiling of the restored temple in April...
Cranberry growers had a tart taste in their mouths last week. First President Reagan, in his State of the Union address, singled out a grant used for cranberry research as an example of fiscal waste. Only days later, Ocean Spray, the Massachusetts-based cooperative, became the first company to be charged with a felony under the recently strengthened Clean Water Act. The company has allegedly been dumping as much as 200,000 gal. per day of insufficiently treated wastewater filled with cranberry juice, berry skins and other pollutants into the town's sewers and the Nemasket River from its plant...