Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be able to learn from working with the IBM scientists."The Real Game"Chung-Jen Tan, who heads IBM's parallel processing research department as well as the Deep Blue team, sees chess as merely a convenient, off-the-shelf benchmark to test cool technology, an effective proof for a tool that will soon be assigned to managing other facets of our lives," Dowell notes. The most immediate application? A process for extracting meaning from a flood of apparently chaotic information known as 'data mining.' "For example," says Dowell, "if you have a sudden run on beds and axes...
Given the scale of these challenges, the Dunster House Opera's production must be counted as a great success. On Saturday night, the audience's enthusiasm only increased as the opera stretched on to midnight. The numerous ovations and spontaneous laughs were proof that people were actually having a good time...
Meanwhile, two states with stockpiles--Kentucky and Indiana--have effectively banned incineration by requiring proof that it will have no long-term health or environmental consequences. The Federal Government says any such study would take 30 years. And no one is enthusiastic about moving the weapons to distant incineration sites, which poses a different set of risks. "Although we in Alabama are willing to destroy our own stockpile, we are absolutely opposed to other people sending their chemical weapons into our state," says Democratic Representative Glen Browder, whose district is slated to be the site of the nation's third...
...good actors, especially Getty as the angry rough-and-tumble greaser. Scott Wolf does an excellent Tom Cruise imitation. And Jeff Bridges is a perfect father figure. Too perfect. The script sinks any hopes the characters had of being deep or moving. Todd Robinson, the screen writer, is living proof anyone can get a job in Hollywood. The script is trite ("Oh, the power of the wind!") and too ambitious ("Today I finally understand Homer: the journey's the thing...
...ANGELES: With rumors flying over what he said last week during depositions in his civil trial, O.J. Simpson phoned CNN Monday to give his side of the story. In a surprise hourlong call-in to CNN's "Burden of Proof" show, Simpson denied he abused his ex-wife Nicole and suggested that police planted evidence against him. It was the most extensive public interview Simpson has granted since he was acquitted. He had previously given one other long interview, to Black Entertainment Television, but refused then to discuss the facts of the case. Simpson told a panel of lawyers...