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...tool to help improve his game, and he 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...
...everyone will relate to updating Sammy Davis Jr.'s schmaltzy Candy Man, but Cibo Matto puckishly turns it into an eerie, atmospheric dirge. Like the Fugees, Cibo Matto provides a twist on rap, a genre in which groups seem to have the shelf life of yogurt. No need to try to identify the taste--from Tokyo or Trenton or Port-au-Prince. As Hatori sings on Cibo Matto's Birthday Cake: "Shut...
Bound volumes of presidential reports dating back more than 150 years cover a shelf on the back wall of the University Archives and contain the yearly musings of Harvard presidents throughout some of the biggest changes in the University's history...
KAREN DAWSON FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort...
That seemed pretty interesting, so the scientists started casting about for cheaper off-the-shelf compounds that had characteristics similar to their rather expensive sorbitol construct. They eventually came up with sucrose polyester, a class of compounds that sports as many as eight fatty acids crowded around alcohol groups that hang, in turn, off a ring of sucrose molecules. By contrast, the naturally occurring fats known as triglycerides include just three fatty acids...