Robotic dining etiquette and famed Fermat rumor mingle in briefs
A Rochester grad student tested a robot's ability to classify table settings as formal or informal and meal type. National Geographic notes airliners average one lightning strike annually with minor damage. The Saint Martin's Press book argues weaknesses in Wiles Fermat proof, linked to Marilyn vos Savant.
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Hector Elizondo
Julia Roberts
University of Rochester
Ray Rimey
St. Martin’s Press
Marilyn Vos Savant
Parade Magazine
New York Times
Parade
Princeton
Texas A&M chemist challenged by fame for transmutation claims
Texas A M chemist John Bockris sought to turn silver into gold amid claims from a Tennessee inventor in 1992. The supposed method produced traces of gold but failed to repeat after the visitor left, later tied to fraud charges. Now Bockris aims to convert carbon into iron, provoking a faculty backlash as eleven full professors urge him to quit.
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Texas A&m
John Bockris
Texas School
Science Magazine
Bockris
Tennessee
Science
Tennessean
Breathing Sounds Improve Computer Voice Recall
Haskins Laboratories researchers in New Haven added breathing noises to synthetic voices. Discover magazine reports volunteers remember numbers better when information is delivered by a breathing computer.
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Haskins Laboratories
New Haven
Conn
Discover Magazine
Iowa space record unmatched by any U S university
The University of Iowa hosts a diverse space program team since 1957 with 51 space flights and nine spacecraft built on campus. Engineers, physicists, and machinists share the Cassini and other instrument work, earning praise from Johns Hopkins and other leading space researchers.
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Iowa
U.S
Tom Walsh
Owa
Outer Space
van Allen Hall
University of Iowa
U of I
America
U of I’s Department of Physics and Astronomy
Roger Randall
Stamacious
Tom” Krimigis
Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Chicago
Towa
Krimigis
M.lt
Berkeley
UCLA
DeBower Designs Star Frame for Cassini Instrument
IGA arc DeBower, a mechanical engineer, concentrates on a star shaped aluminum frame for one of three Plasma Wave Physics Group projects. The frame supports a $6.8 million instrument to be launched to Saturn aboard the Cassini orbiter scheduled for Oct 12, 1997.
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Arc DeBower
Saturn
Cassini
DeBower
Sharon Kutcher Leads NASA Certified In-House Circuit Board Shop
Sharon Kutcher supervises the in-house circuit board assembly shop at the University of Illinois, a NASA certified facility for leadless flight instrument components. Since 1969 she has worked on spacecraft electronics, trained at JPL in 1992, and her Cluster board undergoes meticulous solder joint inspection and harnessing to withstand moisture dust and vibration under strict in-house and federal scrutiny.
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Cassini
European Space Agency
Beall
Circuit Board Fabricator
Sharon Kutcher
U of I
Rockwell
Cedar Rapids
NASA
Kutcher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
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