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...called, Kasparov may have made a mistake in his estimate. "Kasparov is just a stronger player," says Feng Hsiung, who helped develop the machine. But he says that Deep Thought can already play chess better than the computer analysts who programmed it. The computer can review 700,000 moves per second...
Executives at the three established networks noted that the opening show achieved a mere .7 rating, meaning that just seven cable households per thousand tuned in, one twenty-fourth of the audience typically commanded by each of the Big Three newscasts. Said a top NBC news official: "I'm more concerned about erosion of our audience from nonnews sources ((entertainment shows, VCRs and so on)) than competing news sources. I don't think this is going to make any difference to us." Of course, that's what the Big Three used to say, with misguided optimism, about...
...need the shit," says one local liquor dealer. "I'm not losing my license for eight bucks [per...
Harvard's defense, which had yielded an average of 41 points per game in its previous four games, limited Dartmouth to just one field goal and 201 total yards...
Harvard was one of 14 universities which shared use of the multi-million dollar Princeton facility in a consortium arrangement, Weber said yesterday. The supercomputers, highly valued in advanced scientific research, make billions of calculations per second and are used in subatomic physics and semiconductor research, among other applications...