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...newcomer to the world of computers, the government of Thailand was surprised and flattered last summer when it won a prize for being a "hero of the information age" from the Smithsonian Institution and Computerworld magazine. The award, which focused world attention on the Interior Ministry's efforts to computerize the country's social services, proved to be a mixed blessing. Technocrats may admire systems like Bangkok's, which by 2006 will have stored vital data on 65 million Thais in a single, integrated computer network. But civil libertarians are appalled. Simon Davies, an Australian expert on such technology...
After a day in Philadelphia, which included a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the couple departed for the nation's culturally-rich capital where they traversed the many halls of the Smithsonian...
...image of success is wrong. I read an article recently that said that one of the things that was "acting white" for black high school kids in Washington was going to the Smithsonian. Fewer things have made me more depressed than that about the state of black America. When I drive to my house and go through the black neighborhood that's between two white neighborhoods, I don't see black kids packing books at 5 o'clock. They have a basketball, and they're going down to the courts. We have to change the erroneous assumption that you have...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is entering final negotiations with the local Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to develop a center for the supervision and guidance of AXAF--Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility--an orbiting x-ray telescope planned for launch...
...delighted to have been chosen to develop this center," said Dr. Irwin I. Shapiro, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics (CFA), in a news release dated March 25. "Especially because the broad range of astrophysical research already in progress at the CFA provides the potential for important interdisciplinary collaborations." The observatory is a member...