Can machines translate human languages?
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A word from the heavenly Gates
Moses went up the mountain. There God gave him Ten Commandments carved into stone tablets. The tablets were labeled “Version 1.0.”
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Flopping into the future — and past
Are you ready for teraflops? Picoseconds? Wait! Before we get to tera and pico, let’s pause to remember mega and micro.
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The third culture
Kevin Kelly is executive editor of Wired magazine, the ultra-hip organ of the computer generation, known for its screaming graphics and esoteric nerd-speak.
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Dear Mr. Computer…
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Software, ratware, and catware
The invasion of the roborats! From the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena come reports of the first silicon chips that incorporate living brain cells.
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Learning to navigate in a sea of information
All summer we followed the Mars Pathfinder mission on the Internet. We saw the pictures and examined the data beamed backed from Mars, almost as quickly as they were available to the scientists at mission control.
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The Sox take on some real stiffs
Dan Duquette, long-time Red Sox general manager, rises to IBM’s challenge to match his team against the latest in personal robots.
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Make games, not war
The US Marine Corps has awarded a $800,000 contract to MAK Technologies Inc., a Cambridge software firm, to design a computer game for home entertainment and military training.
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Deeper Blue handicaps the match
In a little over a month [in 1997], chess champion Garry Kasparov will play a rematch with his IBM computer opponent Deep Blue. Or rather I should say Deeper Blue, for the machine Kasparov meets on May 3 is a new version of the one that gave him such trouble a year ago.