Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struck me as self-evident that freedom of expression was the cornerstone of all democratic liberties and that censorship of the press, in particular, would soon be seen by all Americans as folly and the sure road to despotism. I now realize that my confidence was premature. Government agencies continue to threaten news organizations that publish information known to everyone, including bitter adversaries, but the American people. Certain women strive to ban, as violations of their civil rights, portrayals of members of their sex that they find insulting. People who attempt to restrict what others are allowed to read...
...Mars, and that useful organic materials can be recovered from these surfaces. While at first people, living in enclosed "biospheres," would explore the distant bodies and set up factories there, many of these operations would later be controlled from earth. The sciences of robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular, must be accelerated to make all of this possible...
These reprogrammable connections give the machine its name. For any particular task, the processors are electronically rearranged to suit the natural structure of the data. To simulate a computer component made up of 20,000 transistorized switches, for example, the machine would assign one processor to each switch. Then, rather than updating the state of those 20,000 switches one at a time, as in a traditional Von Neumann-type computer, the Connection Machine's software simply tells the 20,000 processors to update themselves all at once...
...individualism), but she projects it without petulance or self-pity. She--and the film--insists only on the unknowability of another human being's choices. We are free to decide if that point is irrelevant to us or tragedy enough to explain, if not life in general, then this particular death...
...Federal prosecutors charged that Pelton sold the Soviets information about five U.S. communication "projects," but they were identified merely as A through E and the way they functioned was described only cryptically. Hubert Atwater, a former co-worker at NSA, testified that Project A involved equipment that intercepted "a particular Soviet communications link." The Post reported that the operation used U.S. submarines operating in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the Soviet eastern coast. Another ex-colleague identified Project B as an "ongoing operation" to upgrade equipment used in collecting and analyzing Soviet communications. An FBI agent, David Faulkner, who questioned...