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...with the proliferation of cheap, powerful computers and the rapid growth of the Internet, there's new interest in all kinds of "intelligent" machinery--not just chess-playing supercomputers or grandiose AI research projects like CYC and Cog. The past few years have seen a burst of entrepreneurial activity in what are called intelligent agents--programs of rather more modest IQ that are nonetheless smart enough to be released on the Internet to do small, useful chores like tracking stock prices or digging for nuggets of research data...
...money so far has kept pouring in even while prices temporarily went down. Wall Street used to regard a 10% "correction" as standard after an especially sharp and rapid advance, but the Dow has not had even a temporary downswing that large in the past five years. Huge as it seemed in points, last week's drop came to only 1.6% of the index total...
...employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson. Then there is the somewhat antic teacher his high school students know and love. One day recently he was darting about the dingy science classroom at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, like a gnome on triple espresso, questioning and wisecracking in his rapid-fire Bronx rasp as 30 ninth-grade advanced physical-science students went over results of field research. DuPont principal Beverly Keepers remembers walking in one time on Wigand, who holds a Ph.D. in endocrinology and biochemistry, to find him standing on a table juggling golf balls and keeping...
PUCC's rise in the council was rapid and sudden. The coalition was formed last spring by a group consisting largely of Perspective editors. The group was inspired by a guest commentary in that publication which urged undergraduates to take make the council a locus of student activism...
...Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. The agency agreed that it wouldn't dictate APL's procedures, just its results. "That," says Johns Hopkins engineer Thomas Coughlin, who managed the project, "saved us from having to do a lot of expensive and unnecessary paperwork." Thanks to the rapid advance of microelectronics in recent years, NEAR's designers were able to put a lot of instruments into a smaller and less costly package. Result: the probe came in an unprecedented nine months early and about $32 million under budget...