[Advanced face-recognition systems will have other applications as well. For example, an always-on video camera may be used to scan your face every time you sit down to type. If an unauthorized person tries to use your system, your keyboard will lock up. Or recognition systems may further customize your PC experience.] Your display could adjust the font size depending on where you are in the room, ... It could recognize the faces of various members of your family, and give customized information at a glance. |
[Computers are also quickly becoming adept at recognizing faces, tracking gazes, and even sensing moods. IBM's Blue Eyes research program is built around such biometric technologies.] One of the things we're interested in is attentive user interfaces, ... These are interfaces that pay attention to you as you pay attention to them. |
[Robert Morris , director of equity with Lord Abbott and Co., likes stocks that have been under selling pressure and are ready for a bounce.] What I think is key with Xerox is that we got down here because this company had a near death experience financially, ... I think that with a little profits, with better cash management and some new product announcements, I think this is priced at a level where a relatively few number of points can give you a big percentage gain. |
a whole lot of shoes. |
Aetna has been creamed here [by the decision of some health insurance groups to stop requiring doctors to get the green light with the group before recommending patient treatments] and I think represents a great long-term buying opportunity. |
All of them are finding the materials to be more expensive, and that puts a squeeze on profits. We are talking about a market that is more price-sensitive today than a year ago, with the interest rates going up. |
Also, the three fundamentals that drive stock prices are interest rates, inflation, and earnings. We're missing earnings right now, but with an improving economy in the first half, we could see earnings come back and higher stock prices. |
challenge to start something from scratch. |
Frankly, we haven't seen an environment as extreme as we saw in 1999 and the first part of 2000 for some time. We have gone through quite an usual period, so hopefully our experience is reflective of the fact that we can perform in years in which our style is clearly not in vogue, and in years when it is in vogue. |
Hopefully the rally today [Wednesday] means we're breaking through some of the skepticism about accounting. |
I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. |
I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool. |
I like Apple Computer. I notice it's down a little bit (Friday). I think this company has a good future. I think people are beginning to respect the fact this is probably the most innovative of the PC companies, away from the corporate war, so I'd be a buyer of Apple, |
I like the paper group here (especially Bowater). With the weaker dollar, I think paper is going to be a surprising performer here, ... I particularly like the newsprint sectors. I think pricing is a little more advanced in that part of the industry than it is in some of the others. |
I liked counterpoint because of the way that things went together. That was interesting because the musical elements were separable and then you could warp all of these lines and times and spaces into each other and put voices together. That was a different kind of experience from harmony and I was very affected by it, too; I was escaping the boundaries of space and time. |