Word: productions
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When asked by an audience member why the anthology did not include any pieces about being gay or lesbian at Harvard, Tavares and Burciaga said they did not intend for the anthology to be a finished product...
...authors. The standard method of judging whether a computer is conscious or not is whether it "acts conscious"--whether an observer would be unable to tell that its output came from a computer and not another human. Brutus.1 has by no means become a thinking writer, but if its product looks human to readers, it has somehow made up for whatever capacity of ingenuity it may lack...
...more positive result was generated by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who decided to challenge an industry defined by creativity--advertising. The researchers noticed that a large minority of prize-winning ads followed a simple formula: find the product's characteristic that is its selling point, and use images to emphasize that characteristic in the ad. A similar contest found that the ads the researchers' computers produced were generally as good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls...
...statement, a federal judge announced Tuesday that Dow Corning will pay $4.5 billion in order to come out of bankruptcy - a figure that includes $3.2 billion in damages to women who claim they were injured by the chemical giant's negligence. "This is one of the great cases of product liability in American legal history," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The whole case is very controversial; there are so many sympathetic plaintiffs saying they've suffered a variety of health problems." There are also conflicting reports surfacing from the scientific community - the most recent of which, in June...
...other product category is so sweetly seductive and yet so baffling as home theater. Not too long ago, all you had to do was buy the largest TV you could afford, connect stereo speakers, plug in a VCR and voila--you had bragging rights to state-of-the-art home entertainment. Now there's DVD, Dolby Digital, high-definition TV, personal TV, rewritable CD--all dazzling technologies, to be sure, but disorienting too. HDTV, a digital format so luscious it can make an enthusiast weep, was the year's biggest tease, delayed by technical complications and industry infighting. Yet some...