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...sight: Go over the transcript, and you find that the Optimism of Alan Greenspan got considerably less reaction - both pundit- and market- - than perhaps its weight in the text deserved...
...Japanese consulate carrying banners. "The Japanese government tells lies to young Japanese people," says Pius Yum, a 26-year-old member of the Association for Democracy and People. But history books in Hong Kong have holes you could shoot a Long March missile through. Only a single text refers to the Tiananmen protests of 1989?without mentioning fatalities?and the twin disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution don't seem bad at all. "For the longest time, they didn't cover anything post-1949," says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Baptist University. Hong Kong's former...
...outer limits of the deep Web, even non-text media are beginning to sway to the algorithms and analytical software of Net technology. Scientists from the Norwegian company FAST are showcasing a search engine, at www.alltheweb.com, that can handle sound files, images and movies. Virage's technology for encoding, indexing and publishing streaming media like audio and video broadcasts is being used at www.westminsterlive.tv to link the text of proceedings in Britain's Houses of Parliament to Web broadcasts of them. And at www.speechbot.com, Compaq's experimental voice-recognition software is transcribing Web TV and radio programs automatically. "Online...
...general search engines, don't write them off just yet. AltaVista last month unveiled search and retrieval software that can handle more than 200 different file formats on company intranets. Over the past few weeks, Google has begun indexing text held in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format (pdf) and has added five years' worth of postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with...
...also finds ways into Ehrmann's thinking. He says that high tech is in a "medieval period," likening the information explosion brought about by the Internet to the revolutionary transfer of oral knowledge to written text by monks working in quiet surroundings. To give himself and his 90 local employees a similarly reflective environment, he is building a subterranean office - not far from the helipad...