Word: interact
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...warm and fuzzy editorial comments aside, the experience of observing these children interact with one another has forced me to think more seriously about some central questions about gifted education I had previously taken for granted. Since the inception of the Binet intelligence test—the precursor of today’s IQ test—nearly a century ago, scientists and instructors have grappled with the proper methods for educating children with a greater potential for scholastic success than the average child. The passage of the first national allocation of taxpayer money for gifted education in 1974 touched...
...sake of their social maturation. In their socially and academically formative years, gifted kids should be surrounded with those who memorize Shakespeare for fun, solve complex quadratic equations in their heads, and who yet cannot grasp some simple social conventions of propriety. Together, these children learn how to properly interact with other members of their social group and become more comfortable with themselves as individuals. It is important for gifted kids to be surrounded with other talented students because only then can they think of themselves as fitting in, as something more than just an IQ or SAT score...
While the two groups mostly remained separate and did not directly interact, some anti-abortion demonstrators did engage the other side...
...Indeed, there's a gaping cost-benefit gulf to be bridged before Honda's little walking man can evolve into the next Walkman. Consumers have been conditioned to expect robots to behave like C-3PO of Star Wars. But creating artificially intelligent machines that can sense and interact with the environment in a convincing way is a monumentally complex computing task. The Japanese government's Humanoid Robotics Project set out five years ago to deliver a robot versatile enough to perform hard labor in hazardous conditions. Some $40 million has been spent but the project's HRP-1 robot still...
...Bunzl, a paper distributor and maker of cigarette filters that moved into the FTSE 100 last week. "We took a very pragmatic view with respect to the use of new technology, as indeed have a lot of manufacturing companies," he says, and this has transformed the way they interact with customers. It also brought gains in productivity, helping Bunzl manage double digit growth through the tech boom and increase profits 13% last year. As once-fashionable tech companies like Logica stumble and telecoms like Marconi wallow, investors continue rediscovering the old companies that used technology as a tool rather than...