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Meet a few brave people who make a living trying to predict the future...
...Schwartz flinches when you call any of them predictions, since each scenario is only one of a set. The Greening of Russia scenario that foresaw the rise of Gorbachev, for example, was balanced against the New Stalinism, which imagined a hard-line Soviet backlash. "If you try to predict something," says Schwartz, "you end up with very conventional ideas. Scenarios help you anticipate surprises...
Last fall students created a program to predict course enrollments and prevent the misallocation of teaching fellows as part of a final project in Computer Science 96, “System Design Projects.” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 told The Crimson in February that the program might be used this fall...
While administrators are not using software to predict course enrollments, they are exploring a variety of other technological tools...
...Economy, Drongo AUSTRALIA As the Oct. 9 election nears, polls show the rivals - the coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard, and Mark Latham's Labor party - neck-and-neck. You might predict that Howard would press his staunch support for the war in Iraq. After all, Latham, 43, has pledged to bring Australia's 920 troops in Iraq home by Christmas. That couldn't be further from Howard's position. In addition to supporting the war, Howard - after the Sept. 9 bombing attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 - renewed his support...