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...very juicy, I said, but not compared with the Forbes campaign. Steve Forbes, doing that great comedy-club impression of what would happen if some mad scientist decided to construct a dork robot, turned out to be, when inserted into the Republican presidential campaign, a walking fragmentation bomb...
Schrader graduated from Cornell in 1974 and eventually helped run the university's supercomputer center. "I'm not a scientist," he says. "I'm a generalist and a manager of complex scientific organisms that many people don't understand. I'm never responsible for the science, because I don't know enough. I'm not a computer geek; I'm a manager and a business person." The job at Cornell led him to explore links with other computers and, eventually, the Internet. In 1990 he formed his own company, which later became PSINet...
...somewhere between 2300 and 3000 depending on circumstances. Kasparov's own chess rating is 2750. The best computer before Kasparov was somewhere around 2300." Although Kasparov -- who has spent the week grimacing and holding his head in frustration as he sits across the board from some stone-faced IBM scientist taking instructions from the computer -- is working hard to win the match, Dowell notes that this is really a collaborate effort: "After each game, Kasparov goes through the game in reverse, explaining to the IBM team where he or the computer had gone wrong. This has surprised some people...
...undisputed facts show that Ian's caregivers failed to seek medical help in the three days leading to his death, despite continuous and dramatic indications that Ian was ill with a life-threatening disease--first seriously, then gravely--and that he would die, given continued reliance on Christian Scientist prayer...
...Three years ago, Taiwan said it intended to rejoin the U.N. "as soon as possible," not as China, but as an entity with as much legitimacy as, say, South Korea. Last month Senegal became the 31st country to establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Beijing, says Bertrand Tsai, a political scientist at the National Taiwan University, is "terrified that the whole world may reconsider its policy on Taiwan...