Results for “Gene Machine: The Race to Discover the Secrets of the Ribosome”

and you turn that special capability to a human purpose, to something you want technology to do. In the case of magnetic materials, there are plenty of ways to do that. In terms of programs, it’s the same story. There are all kinds of programs out there, even tiny programs that d...

…great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis: He lives a twenty-four-hour day, sleeping (I guess) whenever, and employing full-time assistants who work eight-hour shifts and are available to him 24...

28 MICHAEL WOLFF That Friday morning, he came down from the residence into the Oval Office in a full-on rage so violent that, for a moment, his hair came undone. To the shock of the people with him, there stood an almost entirely bald Donald Trump. The president’s sudden change...

…al prediction, however, suggest that we should take the notion of a technological singularity with a grain of salt. The general difficulties of technological prediction and the problems specific to the development of a superintelligence should warn us against overestimating both...

…who moves the pieces. Six months earlier, in Philadelphia, Kasparov won against Deep Blue. This is the rematch and has generated a worldwide media frenzy. Tickets to the event are sold out and most news organizations give a blow-by- blow report each day. On the eighth day of the...

…ewed earlier in the week.” Michael Cembalest Chief Investment Officer The material contained herein is intended as a general market commentary. Opinions expressed herein are those of Michael Cembalest and may differ from those of other J.P. Morgan employees and affiliates. Th...

…e plans include a barge dock, two homes, cottages, an amphitheater, gardens, a marine electrical cable, solar array and generator, storage building, security building, workshed and machine shop, and an “underwater office & pool.” The permit application addresses mitigation effor...

financial resources to hire the most talented workers in the field, enhancing their power even further. We have been giving away valuable data for the sake of freebies like Gmail and Facebook, but as the journalist and author John Lanchester has pointed out in the London Review o...

…diverge, and merge just as living species do: subject to selection. The ultimate “value” (the “should”’) is survival of genes and memes. Few religions say that there is no connection between our physical being and the spiritual world. Miracles are documented. Conflicts between C...

Caroline A. Jones’ interest in modern and contemporary art is enriched by a willingness to delve into the technologies involved in its production, distribution, and reception. “As an art historian, a lot of my questions are about what kind of art we can make, what kind of thought...

…e cutting-edge computer scientist of the day, teamed up with McCorduck to write a book on these developments. Zhe Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World was published in 1983. We had a code name for the project: “It’s coming, it’s co...

and you turn that special capability to a human purpose, to something you want technology to do. In the case of magnetic materials, there are plenty of ways to do that. In terms of programs, it’s the same story. There are all kinds of programs out there, even tiny programs that d...

During the Festival, I received an unexpected phone call from Wiener’s colleague Arthur K. Solomon, head of Harvard’s graduate program in biophysics. Wiener had died the year before, and Solomon and Wiener’s other close colleagues at MIT and Harvard had been reading about the Exp...

…l helmet and the barrel of the gun, will not succeed in planting a tree or building a home.” Still, if | was part of a generation that understood the need for military preparedness, strength and a readiness to fight if we were to survive in the Middle East, the 1956 war also bro...

…diverge, and merge just as living species do: subject to selection. The ultimate “value” (the “should”’) is survival of genes and memes. Few religions say that there is no connection between our physical being and the spiritual world. Miracles are documented. Conflicts between C...