Q&A: Larry Brilliant

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Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott Columbia University Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1977 and worked in theoretical particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at CERN (the European center for particle physics), and as a physics faculty member at Brandeis. Abbott began a transi...

Larry Weiskrantz

He found himself at loggerheads in the European Commission with Joe Borg, the European fisheries commissioner from Malta. Borg was insisting that time be allowed for a bluefin recovery plan which had been agreed by Iccat. But its poor record on protecting stocks has angered conservationists. One of Dimas’s officials said: “They need to come up with conservation protection measures that live up ...

Brilliant displays.

November 20 07 T he next time you buy a cell phone, take a close look at the display panel. If things go the way Qualcomm hopes, that colorful little rectangle could give a whole new meaning to the expression “butterfly effect.” True, the interferometric modulator (IMOD) displays recently introduced by the San Diego– based firm have nothing to do with the unexpectedly strong effect a wing beat ...

Qa@l2f@qa@clef

This paper introduces L2F’s (INESC-ID) question/answering system and presents its results in the QA@CLEF07 evaluation task. QA@LF bases its performance on a high-quality deep linguistic analysis of the question, which is strongly based on named entity recognition. However, if a precise analysis is not possible or if no answer is found in previous processed data, the system is also capable of re...