Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...observations were moved to the head of the Hubble schedule, and by July, Freedman was looking at a pattern on her computer screen that was as familiar as the face of an old friend. "Boom!" she remembers. "All of a sudden there was this glorious Cepheid light curve, as beautiful as any that have ever been measured." By the end of the observing run, Freedman and her colleagues found 19 more, enough to peg M100's distance at some 56 million light-years from Earth...
...bands, performed ``live'' last November at the Kitchen in New York City -- while physically remaining in its studio on Chapter Road in Dollis Hill, London. The group's banks of synthesizers and samplers, as well as its three-dimensional silicon graphics, were wired through the Internet to speakers and screens 5,000 miles away. The band members promise that within 18 months they will produce a 3-D film of themselves performing in a virtual environment. Piqued by the possibilities of a new medium, Old Guard rockers are seeking to reinvent themselves cyber-electronically. A foray into the techno-arts...
...debate rages as to whether the concept of ``community'' even exists in cyberspace. Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community, says, ``I want to dispel the notion that a computer network is by itself a community -- a place where at least some of the people reach out through that screen and affect each other's lives.'' At some point, Rheingold says, ``it requires a further commitment either in real life or in cyberspace from those people to each other.'' Rheingold cites the death from cancer last August of Kathleen Johnston, a member of the WELL, a nine-year...
Digital display screens visible above highways, warning of icy bridges ahead and detours, will become even more ubiquitous and varied. So will the long- awaited telescreen for seeing and being seen by those you talk with on the telephone. Carl Ledbetter, president of AT&T's Consumer Products division, predicts that ``in a decade, every phone will have a screen on it.'' At Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, where the PC, on-screen icons and the laser printer originated, Mark Weiser, manager of the computer science laboratory, envisions a world in which flat-panel screens bearing...
...Weiser's world, people will wake up to a tiny bedside screen that gives the time and the weather forecast and even displays news headlines or sports scores. Pocket-size screens would also serve as remote controls for larger screens in the bedroom or living room, where family members will use them variously to watch TV, read the newspaper (which will be customized for each member's personal interests) or draw up the family grocery list...