Word: interconnectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The cost cutting seems destined to continue in a world so interconnected that a decision made in Bonn can lower prices on Wall Street. The West German central bank inadvertently slowed last week's stock-market rally, for example, by raising interest rates to keep German inflation in check. The...
The exhibit is significant in that it shows not only the design of the building, but also its relation to neighboring buildings. The architects seem to have fulfilled Harvard's wish of unifying the museums. One of the building's designers, Charles Gwathmey, who will be discussing his firm's...
Such evils, for example, as the assumption that nations are separate unto themselves. Today all countries are interconnected despite their territorial claims, he argues, and "saying that the Japanese have a pollution problem is ! like saying there's a bad leak in your end of the boat." Of course, hundreds...
In those early days, when each computer was a stand-alone device, there was no threat of a runaway virus. If things got out of control on a particular machine, its keepers could simply shut it down. But all that changed when computers began to be connected to one another...
Conventional computers function by following a chainlike sequence of detailed instructions. Although very fast, their processors can perform only one task at a time. This lockstep approach works best in solving problems that can be broken down into simpler logical pieces. The processors in a neural- network computer, by contrast...