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Pretty neat, you think? Just wait until the third generation of shopping agents moves out of the lab. Even now, folks at M.I.T. and IBM are preparing for a world in which every transaction becomes a complex trade deal between a pricing bot acting for the site and a shopping bot acting for you. "Dynamic pricing, that's the big notion," says Professor Pattie Maes, director of the software-agents group at the M.I.T. media lab. "After all, fixed prices have been around only for a couple of hundred years...
Although unsuspected at the time, these two seemingly unconnected events presaged an alarming encephalitis epidemic. By last week lab tests revealed that the disease had stricken 36 people in metropolitan New York and caused at least five deaths in the region. The tests also provided the first clues in what became a fascinating medical-detective story about a virus never before seen...
Scheduled to be inaugurated on Oct. 12, the center facilitates lab work for students, and the new, more-open amphitheater allows lecturers to have more interaction with their classes, according to Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering H.T. Kung, chair of computer services...
...TIME senior science editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt wonders about that - "I?d like to see them replicate this in a lab. I give a lot more credence to the brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite new toy finally begun? "There is no evidence whatsoever that a wireless phone has ever caused ignition or explosion at a gas station anywhere in the world," scoffed Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, in a written statement. But to DeWitt, that might as well have come...
...like that Purdy wants us to consider the consequences of our attitudes. But I think the anti-irony movement is a longing for an innocence that existed only for one moment in Timothy Leary's lab. And if my name were Jedediah, I'd be so ironic, David Letterman would seem caring. Or I'd call myself...