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March/April 1998
Chess is Too Easy
Forget about Big Blue vs. Kasparov—the best test of artificial intelligence is to ask a computer to write a story. Meet Brutus.1, a software agent that creates short tales of betrayal,self-deception, and evil worthy of a human creator.
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Features

Business Impact

Other Countries' Money

Foreign companies are tapping into the vigorous U.S. system of innovation by sponsoring and increasing amount of research and development at American companies. Is this a boon, or a subtle form of industrial espionage?
Business Impact
Cashing In On Medical Knowledge
Intelligent Machines
To Mac or Not to Mac?
Featured Story
The Virtues (and Vices) of Virtural Colleagues

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Sustainable Energy

Accelerating Isotope Production

Fungi Fodder?

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Intelligent Machines

Go for the Glow

Business Impact

Exploring the CAVE

Practice Makes Perfect

Intelligent Machines

Monorail: Back to the Future

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Waxing Hot and Cold

Rewriting Life

Finding the Wheat, Leaving the Chaff

Medical information is redily available on the Web. So is misinformation. The general public is hard-pressed to tell the difference, though, placing a new burden on doctors.

The Danger of Expectations

Space and the American Imagination

Prophets of Inevitability

Human choices–not immutable forces of nature–govern the development and adoption of technologies.

Intelligent Machines

Setting A Standard In Multimedia Software

Volcanoes: Life on the Edge; Critical Mass: America’s Race to build the Atomic Bomb; and Leonardo da Vinci

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