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Practically human: Can smart machines do your job?

...better and cheaper."Everything that humans can do a machine can do," says Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Things are happening that look like science fiction."Google and Toyota are rolling out cars that...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-01-28/practically-human-can-smar
Smart machines create hands-free workplaces

...All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," predicts Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."If automation can unseat...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-02-09/smart-machines-create-hand
UGA drops to 5th as 'party school'

...Food - Bowdoin College in Maine Best College Dorms - Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Happiest Students - Rice University in Texas Best Athletic Facilities - U.S. Military Academy Students reporting the highest overall satisfaction with...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-08-21/uga-drops-5th-party-school
Deaths from conditioning sessions prompt new guidelines

...tested at birth for the trait, and the NCAA in 2010 began requiring blood tests for it in Division I athletes after Rice University football player Dale Lloyd II died during a conditioning workout in 2006. The requirement for Division II athletes...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/college/2012-06-27/deaths-conditioning-sessi
Analysis: Campaign donations don't always help

...new study suggests that most corporations don't get their money's worth when they make political contributions.Rice University released details last month of research showing that in terms of influencing specific government policy, most companies...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2012-07-10/analysis-campa
Curtain falls on Davidson seniors' high school careers

...Never did I imagine I would walk out of this school as a ballerina or a film producer," said Rossi, who will attend Rice University.The best education, she said, came not from academic classes but from countless hours of music, art and theater...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-05-21/curtain-falls-davidson-se
George W. Porter (AUGUSTA, Ga.)

...into rest peacefully at home surrounded by family. George was born in Houston, TX. Following his graduation from Rice University in Chemical Engineering, he served in the U.S. Navy on a submarine during the Korean War. He had a successful...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/obituaries/2011-08-28/george-w-porter-augusta-ga
Churches work toward integrating congregations

...350,000 congregations in the U.S., according to Michael Emerson, a sociology professor and co-director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research in Houston. Ninety-two percent are homogeneous, meaning at least...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2011-09-30/churches-work-toward-int
George Porter

...into rest peacefully at home surrounded by family. George was born in Houston, TX. Following his graduation from Rice University in Chemical Engineering, he served in the U.S. Navy on a submarine during the Korean War. He had a successful...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000153360126
New BP CEO took unusual turns to top

...year.If BP is going to survive , it must protect those assets, says Amy Myers Jaffe, an oil industry scholar at Rice University in Houston.Dudley has adamantly defended BP's actions since the rig explosion. He must now ensure that BP pays...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2010-07-27/new-bp-ceo-followed-unusua
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