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...sensitive and selective is the frog's-eye computer that human scientists have long tried to construct a duplicate. At a bionics* symposium sponsored by the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base last week, Radio Corp. of America demonstrated a reasonable facsimile. RCA's artificial eye is a heavy box, 40 in. by 40 in., its end studded with 1,600 small light detectors that simulate the light-sensitive cells of a frog's retina. Behind the detectors are layers of electronic components that serve as frog nerve cells. They are interconnected in such...
Boulez' is a consciously strange tongue. In the first concerts of modern music after the Liberation from the Nazis, Boulez, then a 20 year old student, led a riot of students "to protest the neo-classical works of Stravinsky." In 1960, at a symposium on "Where is True Tradition?" Boulez proclaimed, "For me there is no tradition. That is a word of the theoreticians of music... The work is the important thing. The past takes on a new face after a work. I make tradition; I do not have tradition behind...
Appearing before some 300 delegates of the esteemed American Bankers Association gathered for a symposium in Washington's Mayflower Hotel, Kennedy made it eminently clear that he cares far more about a tax cut than tax reform...
...just a symposium at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, but 1,200 students turned out for it, cramming the 500-capacity auditorium and spilling over into another building to follow the proceedings on closed-circuit television. Thousands of plain citizens watched it on educational station KQED and swamped the station with mail...
...made little difference whether the experts at the American Medical Association symposium in Los Angeles were reporting on Britain, Japan...