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Every two seconds, BETA captures enough data to fill a CD-ROM, which adds up to roughly 22 million megabytes of data per day--an overwhelming volume far beyond human capacity to comprehend and evaluate. For that reason, the incoming radio waves are digitized and read into a custom-made, homegrown supercomputer, designed and assembled by Horowitz and his students, that sorts through the input and discards cosmic radio "noise...
...long-term, the Case Program hopes to preserve the interactive exercise in CD-ROM form--in effect, to take a snapshot of the information relevant to Campaign '96 and to save it, so that students and scholars of the future will be able to put themselves in the shoes of those involved in this year's political season...
...year-old Elisa Izquierdo, a victim of child abuse, whose death in New York City became a symbol of America's deeply flawed child-welfare system. Under deadline pressure, Rivera needed to move quickly, so she turned for help to TIME's in-house research center. Using a CD-ROM directory, the staff was able to supply Rivera with a list of people who live in Izquierdo's apartment building. The results of her interviews appeared in last week's cover story...
...what's not this Christmas are swiftly becoming clear. Topping most wish lists are consumer-electronics items ranging from Apple laptop computers that can cost thousands of dollars to kid's gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation ($300) are also likely to be in big demand this year...
Conn is bringing in a witness who already promises controversy. Roger McCarthy, an engineer from the Menlo Park, California, firm of Failure Analysis Associates, which provided law-enforcement officials with re-creations of the Oklahoma City bombing, will give jurors a CD-ROM presentation featuring grisly autopsy photographs and computer models of the murdered couple. According to Conn, McCarthy has determined the entry angles of the 12 bullets fired into Jose and Kitty and the sequence of the shots, illustrating the intent to kill and bolstering the prosecution's claim that the victims were shot in the knee because...