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Most linguistic experts strongly oppose such artificial attempts to control language by decree. They argue that languages must keep changing as new problems arise and new information needs to be communicated. Besides, the portion of English words in any major language is not statistically large --generally less than 5%, according...
Alas, it is true. James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist and stern moralist. In fact, much of the joy of reading him comes from the extravagant spectacle of a first-rate mind wasting itself on baseball. Is baseball 75% pitching? No, it isn't...
But why go to all the expense and bother? The 15-member commission contends that, beyond the sheer accumulation of new knowledge, exotic types of manufacturing can be done only in the conditions of space, the moon and Mars, and that useful organic materials can be recovered from these surfaces...
Hillis may be using hyperbole. But if the initial kinks can be worked out, his strange new machine will be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 1 billion instructions a second--roughly the power of a Cray X-MP supercomputer but at a quarter the cost. Moreover, the...
Still, the Connection Machine has some powerful supporters, among them M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in artificial-intelligence research, and Claude Shannon, the father of the statistical theory of information. By last week Hillis' company had taken orders for seven of its new computers, ranging in price from $1...