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...years ago, IBM researcher Ismail Haritaoglu found himself at a Tokyo train station, unable to make heads or tails of the kanji lettering in the posted routes and timetables. Next time he'll be ready. His InfoScope snaps a picture of a street sign and ships it over a wireless network to a remote computer that extracts the text and beams back a translation--all in less than 15 seconds. Haritaoglu is working on a similar service for GPS-equipped cell phones that would offer travel tips. INVENTOR IBM Almaden Research Center AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.almaden.ibm.com
...AIDS should not limit it," Gates said. Cultivating that talent is the goal of Gates' second gift: a $400 million investment in India, birthplace of one-fifth of Microsoft's programmers. Some of the money is for education and free Microsoft programs?including a special $20 million grant to train teachers in I.T.?but most is earmarked for building new industry partnerships. Foreign aid by the software superpower is nothing new. "Proprietary software companies hand out free copies for the same reason that cigarette companies give sample packs to college kids?to encourage addiction," says Richard Stallman, founder...
Joseph R. Geschlecht ’06 had planned to take a bus to New Haven and then board a commuter train to reach his New York City-area home for Thanksgiving...
...risk seemed largely unperturbed. Although seven people were killed in fires - about average for any 48-hour period - almost nobody was blaming the firemen. Instant T.V. opinion polls showed about half of all Britons sided with the strikers. (It helped that few people were seriously inconvenienced; tube and train lines remained open.) Across the country, motorists driving past picket lines honked in solidarity. Public sympathy strengthened FBU leader Andy Gilchrist's resolve to hold out for a bigger pay rise. "We now have a window of opportunity before the next strike to seek a resolution before any more lives...
...work ethic is his creative power to shape a film in new directions not always intended by the director. In the double-murder scene in The Godfather, for example, Francis Ford Coppola had only one demand: no music. In response, Murch independently recorded the sound of an elevated train to accompany the silent footage. By slowly raising the volume of the train’s screeching, he mirrored Michael’s psychological anguish as he strengthens his resolve to kill. The scene is infinitely more effective with this subtle innovation than if it had been left silent as filmed...