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...computer graphics, the technique by which digital machines generate realistic-looking objects and move them as fast as they would move in real life, has come of age. Architects are using 3-D technology to let clients walk through buildings before they are constructed. Scientists employ it to visualize phenomena too fast, too small or too explosive to be seen firsthand. Industry is relying on it to speed up design and production cycles...
Maass was one of the leaders of the conservative caucus of the faculty that emerged during the debates. The caucuses were a phenomena of the time, with the faculty divided into two groups--one representing professors who were sympathetic to student demands and believedthat the University should become more"democratic" and the other representing those whowere more interested in maintaining the statusquo...
...whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity of envisioned phenomena and it surprised me to have it called luxuriant and self-indulgent; self-indulgent, surely, is exactly what it wasn't -- other-indulgent, rather...
...least odd aspect of the affair is that Foucault's Pendulum is not so much a thriller as a complicated parable that contains pages and pages of erudite details about such medieval phenomena as the Knights Templar, the Cathars and the Order of Assassins. And Eco steadfastly refuses to explain what his mysterious novel is all about. "This was a book conceived to irritate the reader," he says in his drafty university office, lighting up another of the 60 cigarettes he puffs every day. "I knew it would provoke ambiguous, nonhomogeneous responses because it was a book conceived to point...
...Many scientists say it is, thanks to the greenhouse effect, the heat-trapping property of gases that pollute the atmosphere. Some computer studies indicate that the warming could cause more frequent droughts and eventually produce a major climatic upheaval. Others say, not necessarily: increased cloudiness and other mitigating phenomena could counteract the warming before it has significant effect...