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...Space Ghost: "Moltar, I have a gigantic brain, capable of turning any machine into a simple yes or no answer." Kathy Konfident: "Despite the fact that Space Ghost, immediately after, destroyed the machine he was working with, his description of AI (albeit accidental) was accurate. AI is simp...

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... buzz amidst “10,000 walking, talking computer freaks.” 2 The Apple II was a machine for hobbyists who did not want to fuss with soldering irons: all ... ...tions. But the hurdle was not high. Some owners were inspired to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software wri... ...lc, the world’s first spreadsheet program—sales of the ungainly but very cool machine took off dramatically. 3 An Apple running VisiCalc helped to convi... ...sses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. They had their hunches, but, fortunately for them,... ... then delivered on the threat) to transform the iPhone into an iBrick. 5 The machine was not to be generative beyond the in- novations that Apple (and... ...a fundamental dilemma: as long as people control the code that runs on their machines, they can make mistakes and be tricked into running dangerous co... ...ommercial (as compared to academic) computing assumed that the vendor of the machinery would provide most or all of its program- ming. The PC of the 1... ... it out at a rate of one thousand dollars per year for each of the first fifty machines. In exchange, he was wholly responsible for making sure the mach... ... seven years required for the 1880 Census. Hollerith’s eponymous Tabulating Machine Company soon expanded to other governments’ censuses, and then to...

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... under the Speedy Trial Statute.” The middle-aged woman’s fingers clicked over her machine. “Now some time yesterday, an esteemed colleague and of... ...ved every minute of it, too. Some eccentrics developed hobbies like tinkering with machines or keeping endless diaries. Her mama talked to inanimat... ...le to settle in for brandy and cigars, I’ve got to come back here and talk into that machine the secretaries’ use. My girl won’t come here until the... ...approved, or was just amazed, at what they’d done. The image of Olin at the copying machine madly flinging original documents on the glass and cover...

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... based on documentary evidence. Violence against Dalits by the partisan state machinery, particularly the police are highly condemnable. Instigated ... ...d Russia. The people there don’t do such work. Everything is mechanized. Only machines do even the work of transferring sacks to vehicles. Here rail... ...way. There is no job that is very low and I am sure that there will soon be machines that will perform all these low jobs. To develop rationality ... ...naccessibility of police stations, or to loss of faith in the law enforcement machinery, a number of cases go unreported. 344 Cases registered ... ...the police force annually and the rapid modernization of the law enforcement machinery, why has the Indian state become so powerless to contain eff... ...logy, Chennai, (1999). 26. Kosko, B., Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Int. J. of Man- Machine Studies, 24 65-75 (1986). 27. Kosko, B., Neural Networks and... ...Kosko, B., Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence, Prentice Hall of India, (1997). 28. Laszlo, E....

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...e will have to keep their possessions longer, and eventually fridges, washing machines, cars and Televisions do break down. Other workshops th...

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...f a seal the first and principal cause of the greatest commotion that this machine of the world ever underwent? —[The civil war be- tween Marius and S...

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...e published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a revolutionary typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2 million in 2005) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in th...

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...ink about things before answering and reckons on the phone people demand instant decisions and responses. We’ve a landline that goes to the answering machine so she can listen to callers and decide whether to respond.’ ‘Must be hard for her boss and staff.’ ‘Everyone emails her. When she’s home the internet’s always on and when an email arrives a little alarm sounds. It’...

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...l were revised to discuss the phototypesetting technology that had begun to displace lead type as well as the old Linotype and Monotype metal-casting machines—technologies that dated from the end of the nineteenth century. Nearly 200 pages longer than its predecessor, the 13th edition also addressed, for the first time, the use of personal computers and word processors, wh...

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...-speaking peoples, nineteenth-century progress, white-rat serum, up-to-date machinery, four-year-old boy, house-to-house canvass, go-as-you-please f... ...t in parentheses (see above illustration). 220. In work set on the linotype machine footnotes should be numbered consecutively through an article, o... ... and aligned, should be used between the columns; when set on the linotype machine, use regular Manual of Style: Tabular Work 75 leaders. In rule... ...ch part or chapter on a separate page in the body of the book. TYPESETTING MACHINES- 274. The linotype-named Mergenthaler after its inven- tor-is ... ...- 274. The linotype-named Mergenthaler after its inven- tor-is a composing-machine on which, by touching 92 The University of Chicago Press a ke... ...ly in lines in a receptacle, which then is brought in contact, on the same machine, with molten type-metal, through a mechanical device which liber... ...of type. 275. The monotype-named Lanston after the patentee is a composing-machine on which, by touching a key- board, perforations are made in str... ...rations are made in strips of paper, which then are transferred to a second machine, where the matrices to which the perforations correspond are br... ...wise. NOTE.-It is important to remember that in matter set on the linotype machine the slightest change necessitates the resetting of the whole lin...

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...ng as publishers. The introduction of "book ATMs" - POD (Print On Demand) machines, which will print every conceivable title in minutes, on the spo... ...n other words, it returns the book to its origins: a time capsule, a time machine and the embodiment of a historical narrative. E-books, hitherto, ... ...nd typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book to... ... still limited to industrial designs and processes, mainly as embedded in machinery. The patent was born. The more massive the market, the more soph... ...es - the larger loomed the issue of intellectual property. It spread from machinery to designs, processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, wor... ...irement to file copyright renewals, to stifle changes brought on by Xerox machines. In 1998, the US extended the copyright term yet again, to 95 year... ... project to put the Library of Congress catalogs into public domain MARC (Machine Accessible Record Catalog) records. During the conversation, there... ...nd is that everything should cost something. In some places there are even machines that dispense a breath of fresh air. . .for a price. Do we reall... ... create a civilization in which everything has a price. . .when there are machines that could copy anything? The E-Books Evangelist Interview wit...

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...s, or farmers is limited - as is their life span. The quantities of raw materials, machinery and plant are constrained. Contrary to classic economi... ... they incur - the initial expenditures and investments in research and development, machine tools, plant, and branding. To sum, though financial a... ...nt over the long run." In his recently published tome "The Free-Market Innovation Machine - Analysing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism", William B... ...its sold cover the enormous fixed and sunk costs of authoring the software and the machine tools used in the manufacturing process. The actual prod... ...of innovation fully understood. In a new tome titled "The Free-Market Innovation Machine", William Baumol of Princeton University claims that onl... ...s are nascent: nanotechnology, quantum computing, proteomics, neuro- silicates, and machine intelligence. Recent innovations have spawned two crucia... ... period ("Metropolis", "Modern Times") portray the industrial worker as a nut in a machine, driven to the verge of insanity by the numbing repetiti... ...ed discourse of innovation and property rights, titled "The Free-Market Innovation Machine", William Baumol of Princeton University claims that onl... ...sulting misallocation of resources. They are the sand in the wheels of the economic machine. 3. The "not serious" operators. These are people too ...

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...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ... the subject of the famous Turing Test: there is no effective way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipula... ...s of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical).... ...limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admittedly much more agile, versatile, non-linear, may... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ...nspire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "st... ...lled: "structures") and instruction code (called: "functions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. ... ... permutations define the set of all soluble problems. It can be proven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, cla... ...integrated with object oriented ones, for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the operating system. These ph...

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...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ... the subject of the famous Turing Test: there is no effective way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipula... ...s of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical).... ...limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admittedly much more agile, versatile, non-linear, may... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ...nspire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "st... ...lled: "structures") and instruction code (called: "functions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. ... ... permutations define the set of all soluble problems. It can be proven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, cla... ...integrated with object oriented ones, for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the operating system. These ph...

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...go, preferably using non-intrusive detection equipment such as large- scale X-ray machines and radiation detectors. Create and implement an Authori... ...em which pre- clears passengers to ensure faster clearance on arrival. Introduce machine readable travel documents (MRTDs), if possible with biomet...

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...effect on the relocation of work from factory and office to home and car. Machine tools and office equipment well into the 1980's were too cumbersom... ... other ominous signs. The worker of the future will interface mainly with machines or with others through machines - often from home. The merging of... ...tion of the common industrial worker, the veritable "anonymous cog in the machine". Not only was the link between worker and product broken - but t...

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...th alternative job opportunities but on the other by importing harvesting machines etc., and using it had still made these agriculture labourer a vi... ...ilure of agriculture F 6 - Failed Government policies like advent of machinery, no value of small scale industries, weavers problem, match fac... ...re of agriculture and above all failed government policies like advent of machinery, no value of small scale industries, weavers problem, match fact... ...ack of labour opportunities with failed government polices like advent of machinery which replaces human labour like weaver problem and match factor... ... unconcern over their development in any plans so only introduction of machine for harvest etc has crippled agricultural labourer. Now we pr... ...rural uneducated men about awareness of HIV/AIDS for CSWs have become the machinery of spreading about HIV/AIDS but these rural migrant labourers fa... ...240. 58. Kosko, B., “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps,” International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 34 (1986) 65-75. 59. Kosko, B., “Fuzzy Entropy and Condit...

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...yms ASEAN The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ATMs Automated Teller Machines BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision BIS Bank for Internati... ...the most popular and useful financial innovations are the automated teller machines (ATMs). Several efforts are underway 92 Fixing Global Finance in ...

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...7: 91-108. Goldberg, D. E. Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization & Machine Learning. Singapore: Pearson Education, 1989. Goldberger, A... ...atics 1, 1957: 591-606. Zadeh, L. A. A Theory of Approximate Reasoning. Machine Intelligence 9, 1979: 149- 194. 133 This work has been wholly a...

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... between cells is what makes a healthy body such a perfect and beautiful machine. A healthy body has such an effective maintenance mechanism that i...

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...ck exchanges and shares. "Real" assets include land and the property built on it, machinery, and other tangibles. "Financial" assets include anyth... ... or real estate development, decreased the productive powers of a single workman or machine in the United States." In Louisville, the "Herald Post" ... ...e exclusively sold in such tenders as are government bonds, second hand goods, used machinery, artworks, antiques, stamps, old coins, rare books, je...