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Google Doodle celebrates Frank Zamboni's ice-resurfacing machine
Frank Zamboni, the man who invented the hypnotic Zamboni ice resurfacing machine, was honored Wednesday with a playable Google Doodle. It would have been his 112th birthday. Zamboni invented his ice-resurfacing machine back in the 1940s, after opening...
Tags: Easter, Google Inc., Sonja Henie, NASA, Human Interest
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As referendum looms, gay plays open theater season
During Jon Marans' "The Temperamentals," the season-opening play by Rep Stage about the gay rights movement, a woman raises the subject of marriage. "I definitely do not believe in homosexuals marrying," she says. She isn't talking about same-sex...
Tags: Marriage, Minority Groups, Politics, Interior Policy, Arts and Culture
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Op-Ed: Gay history is everyone's history
I was quite surprised to read not one but two columnists attack a new law, the FAIR Education Act, just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. I usually find both columnists quite interesting and agree with most of their viewpoints, especially Dan Kimber's...Tags: Nazi Party, Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Gays and Lesbians, History
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Landmark gay history bill goes to California governor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum. The bill, passed on a...Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Leno, Tom Ammiano, Native Americans, Minority Groups
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The tale behind the Apple logo
CNNIf beauty is indeed truth, as John Keats claimed, then this story ought to be true: the logo on the back of your iPhone or Mac is a tribute to Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into artificial...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Steve Jobs, Apple iPhone, Snow White (fictional character), Folklore and Mythology
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Father of artificial intelligence dies in Calif.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died. He was 84. Stanford University, where McCarthy was a professor for four...Tags: Unix, Science, Apple Inc., Stanford University, Steve Jobs
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John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence
![In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65685459-27181910-187105.jpg "In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies,\" but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.")
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.
He called...Tags: Computer Science, Princeton University, Heart Attack, Chess Playing, Fraud
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Transhumans in space
Today, Hickam and Simberg debate genetic solutions to the challenges of long-term space travel. Previously they discussed the grudge match between private space entrepreneurs and the federal space agency, examined the moon and Mars for signs of human life...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Washington (U.S. state), Aging, Technology, Trips and Vacations
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'Enigma'
Times Staff WriterEven though "Enigma" has a plot almost as hard to crack as the Nazi coding device that gives this World War II thriller its name, it is such a grand, romantic entertainment that it sweeps the viewer along in its swiftly escalating suspense. More...Tags: L. Michael White, Mick Jagger, Manhattan (New York City), Dougray Scott, Tom Stoppard
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, September 2006
Staff reporterRoderick MacFarquhar, professor of history, political science and government at Harvard University and co-author of the new book Mao's Last Revolution, discusses the history of communism in China, the roots of the Cultural Revolution, and how it...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Immigration, Lawyers, Terrorism, Skokie
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