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Upon graduation from Harvard, Gonzalez will enter the Navy as a commissioned officer and is obligated to perform four years of service. Not a problem: the government concentrator is planning a lifelong career in the armed forces and hopes to work in aviation and eventually the intelligence field...
...have experienced firsthand the complexities involved in such administrative decisions as admissions and dorm assignments for an extraordinarily diverse student body, I doubt that many have considered the range of factors that must inform decisions about compensation for Harvard's employees. Harvard employs more than 14,000 individuals to perform an enormous range of tasks. They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there are as many...
Ridlington had never seen a lawyer in action before. Lexton multi-tasked like a pro--handling her own billing and other logistics. Ridlington says she learned that one of the drawbacks to a small firm is the need to perform such administrative tasks...
...with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like PC functions? Well, there will always be geeks who have to have too much computing power. But the rest of us may be satisfied gazing into our microwaves...
...elusive mental processes human beings use to make judgments about one another. Despite the computer's ability to calculate the trajectories of spacecraft or pick the next move in a chess game, the machines have until now been flummoxed by crude recognition tasks that even a baby can perform, often failing to distinguish between a beach ball and a cabbage, to say nothing of picking out a familiar face in a photo album filled with strangers. Such a pattern-recognition talent, says Salk Institute neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski, in whose lab the work was done: "is a survival skill humans probably...