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...suggest confusion or disappointment through different hues and patterns. Or, if Ada wants to direct visitors' attention to something in particular, it can illuminate colored lamps in the floor that outline the route they should take to find the desired object. Ada, named after 19th century British programming pioneer Ada Lovelace, performs all these feats thanks to neural network technology, layers of computer circuits that work in ways analogous to the human brain. If its intelligent space architecture proves a success, Ada may help pave the way for the acceptance and development of commercially constructed "smart" rooms and buildings that...
DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, pioneer rock-'n'-roll tunesmith; of an apparent heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. He wrote songs that helped define the careers of Elvis Presley (Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up), Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls of Fire), Peggy Lee (Fever) and James Taylor (Handy Man). A modest man who never met most of the singers made famous by his songs and one of the few black composers of the proto-pop era, Blackwell blended country with rhythm and blues to make music the world still sings...
...businesses don't have to abandon all secrecy in the information age, says Tom Halbouty, chief information officer of Pioneer Natural Resources, based in Irving, Texas. The company often collaborates with its competitors. To protect secrets about oil-field discoveries and drilling-platform designs, Pioneer purchased software from Infraworks of Austin, Texas, that limits the reproduction of sensitive digital documents. The company encrypts its Internet communication with partners and insists that contractors working on site use Pioneer's e-mail system so the company can track what information they send to whom. Pioneer is also careful to obtain nondisclosure agreements...
Digital networking certainly poses a risk to trade secrets, Halbouty says, "but if you're practical and prudent, you can use these tools to your advantage." Pioneer's secrets, he says, are as leakproof as its oil pipes...
...oddity about this crusading pioneer was that he was a bit of a racist. Or, anyway, a shade-ist. Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense...