Making sense
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Microsoft Research is improving its speech-recognition software by passing the process through four stages. A word is searched through a root word stage, passed on to a parser for its function, compared with a built-in dictionary and relegated to a database which enters each meaning or use of the word.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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Snap, crunch or gigaPOP?
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Many people are worried that the dramatic increase in Internet users will soon render it practically useless. Routing bottlenecks might prevent it from connecting computers to the system, all possible addresses may be used up, and data flow will be so slow so as to render it impractical.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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A massive discovery
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Neutrinos are offering insights on the real nature of the universe as equipment that can detect neutrinos help people see materials not commonly detected by conventional instruments but are present in stars, galaxies and the universe.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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