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Judge John E. Jones III of the U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, Pa. gave Harvard professors who support evolution new ammunition last month when he rendered it unconstitutional to teach intelligent design in a Pennsylvania public school science class. Intelligent design refers to the idea that certain aspects of life are too complex to be a result of randomized natural selection, and thus must have come from an “intelligent designer.” Despite the ruling, some Harvard faculty members say they worry that the battle over intelligent design may just be getting started. Professor of Biology...
...TECHNOLOGY THAT'S overloading our circuits help address the problems it has created? Czerwinski and her bosses at Microsoft think so. She's helping design an intelligent office-communication system that calculates whether an interrupting e-mail or IM should be transmitted immediately or delayed on the basis of, among other factors, the worker's appointments and projects that day, his past preferences and habits and the organizational-chart relationship between sender and receiver. "Something like this has got to happen sooner or later," says Czerwinski, though she acknowledges that it raises privacy issues. The alternative is to turn...
Czerwinski has also been helping Microsoft design alternatives to current software products to allow workers to stay on task for longer periods, even as onscreen interruptions arrive. In next-generation systems, which Microsoft's competitors are pursuing as well, interruptions are designed to be less intrusive--nothing flashes, pops up or makes a noise--and the alerts appear on the periphery of a screen that's larger than today's standards so that workers stay centered on their main task. The key, she says, is for an incoming message to provide just enough information for the worker to judge whether...
...struggling under competitive pressures that the Chinese are only starting to experience. Chery is developing a full line of vehicles, from compacts to SUVs, shooting for a 2007 launch. And those aren't Chinese Yugos. At the 2005 Shanghai Auto Show, Chery unveiled a convertible with a retractable hardtop, designed by Italy's Pininfarina studio, that won the award for best new car. Yale Zhang, an industry analyst in Shanghai with CSM Worldwide, an automotive consulting firm, says he expects Chery to begin exporting a minivan and a four-door sedan next year. Chery recently cleared two hurdles: settling...
...when I was loading up the songs that I noticed a funny interface design flaw: Every so often, instead of an X in the upper right hand corner, you see an "OK" which is essentially the same thing: click it and you close your window. There's even an "OK" button on the Treo, which closes whatever you're in, whether or not there's an "OK" to be clicked. This is the problem. As I was choosing songs to use as ringtones, I kept hitting "OK" and nothing happened. After several tries, I noticed that there was a "Select...