The Reluctant Dragon

Dragon

Objectives: Dragon Systems is developing and building high performance, computationallyefficient interactive speech workstations, to sup'port adaptive speech recognition of large vocabulary, natural language speech input in real-time. These systems are based on the results of the multi-knowledge source (MKS) algorithm architecture and multi-processor accelerator hardware studies previously unde...

Reluctant Sociologist

Socio 20 DOI: Between 1999 and 2004 only one article appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, or Social Forces using primary data collected with Web-based research techniques. Since then there have been only a handful of studies published in these core sociology journals drawing on Web-based surveys or other forms of Web-based data. The use of Internet-ba...

Moving companies reluctant

The Academic Council voted 30-19 against a proposal that would have restored the opportunity for evening exams. The result of this decision, reached during a closed meeting yesterday afternoon in the C.C.E., means a continuation of the current policy of the 8-9:30 a.m. Tuesday-Thursday exam period. The Council rejected the pro­ posal though the results of a Student Government survey, com­ plete...

Max Planck : the reluctant revolutionary

ACCORDING to the standard story, which is unfortunately still found in many physics textbooks, quantum theory emerged when it was realized that classical physics predicts an energy distribution for black-body radiation that disagrees violently with that found experimentally. In the late 1890s, so the story continues, the German physicist Wilhelm Wien developed an expression that corresponded re...

The reluctant patient: Parkinson's disease.