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...senior thesis “Why People Hate the Paperclip: Labels, Appearance, Behavior and Social Responses to User Interface Agents,” Luke Swartz, Stanford Class of 2003, interviewed Word users and ran an original experiment with different “agents” to find out if Clippy’s failure was “one of implementation or one of concept.” That is, is it inherently annoying to have a little creature proffering help in a computer program or is there potential for a truly useful Clippy...
...investigation got under way, the Port Elizabeth police hinted to the local press that the Azanian People's Organization, or Azapo, a militant group which excludes whites, may have been behind Goniwe's slaying. But both Azapo and the U.D.F. have rejected that theory. Derrick Swartz, a U.D.F. leader in the Eastern Cape, pointed out that given Goniwe's determination not to stop the car, an Azapo hit squad would have had to force the vehicle off the road. The car, however, showed no damage that might indicate a chase or a struggle...
Sanford, R. T.; Schlesinger, J. S.; Shepard, W. D.; Shillito, J., Jr.; Siegal, D. Silberberg, A. R.; Snyder, J. N.; Solverson, R. R.; Snow, J. H.; Southwick, C. H.; Strauss; L. H.; Sturgis, R. L.; Swartz...
...divvied up. I felt fairly sure while listening to the testimony and absolutely certain after checking the financial documents during deliberations that three of those bonuses were illegal. They were supposed to be approved by the board's compensation committee; they were not. And the reasons offered by Swartz on the stand for why they were legitimate seemed to be fabrications, repeated over and over in a virtuoso performance...
MISTRIAL DECLARED, in the fraud trial of L. DENNIS KOZLOWSKI and MARK H. SWARTZ, former executives of Tyco International; after a juror whose name was publicized as a lone holdout during jury deliberations received a threatening letter; in New York City (see page...