The Galaxy's guide to the hitch-hiker: voice recognition
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One of the most successful attempts to get a computer to recognize speech is the Galaxy system developed by Victor Zue of the Spoken Language Systems Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Galaxy uses information that the computer can access on the World Wide Web to help it understand language.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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The weirdest computer of all
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Engineers and scientists are trying to develop a new type of computer based on the properties of quantum physics. Quantum computers would use true parallel processing, thus making them far more advanced and quicker than binary ones. Details about their development are given.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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Not Moore's Law: magnetic storage
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Disk drive engineers double the capacity of their products every 18 months, keeping pace with silicon chip makers. Gordon Moore noticed this fact about semiconductor chips in 1965. Forecasts by experts in the industry are presented.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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