Word: 1990s
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...management regarded Holden as a bona fide member of Chrysler's dream team, one reason it granted him so much autonomy. In fact, Holden, a former vice president of sales and marketing, was viewed within and without Chrysler as a junior functionary in the automaker's success in the 1990s. Schrempp did not know it, but Holden's appointment had engendered tremendous resentment at Chrysler headquarters...
Though renowned philosophy professor John R. Searle has called some of Kurzweil's visions "preposterous," several of his predictions about cyberdevelopments of the 1990s--Does a computer beating a world chess champion sound familiar?--have proved dead...
...astronaut. But she never gave up her interest in robots. When she studied astronomy, she was particularly intrigued by lunar rovers, which are really just a specialized form of robot. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Breazeal went to M.I.T. in the early 1990s to become part of one of the world's most innovative robotics labs...
...come up with. And right now, at the dawn of the Internet age, PARC scientists are most motivated by the question of how we digest our increasingly bloated diet of data. After all, they say, your total potential reading matter increased by a factor of 10,000 during the 1990s. "In a world where information is abundant, the scarce resource is attention," says Stu Card of PARC's User Interface research team. "That's what we're trying to do--manage user attention...
...stock price subsided in April, though Premji's net worth is still estimated at more than $11 billion.) The techno-tycoons are admired because they have earned fortunes in one of the world's most competitive industries without any under-the-counter help from Indian bureaucrats. In the early 1990s, in fact, the software lobby got the government to remove import duties intended to protect local firms from software products sold in India by Western companies. "We said that if we can't compete with multinationals in India, how will we ever be able to compete outside," says NASSCOM...