Wide group of companies join project to develop superfast computer network

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A broad group of US firms, including software and hardware companies, Bell regional telephone operators, cable TV firms, long-distance and cellular carriers and many user companies, will work together to expedite development of a high-speed computer network that may one day link every American home. The private Council of Competitiveness will head the group, which will aim to define policy and technological steps that industry and government can take to hasten the advent of the advanced network. Project leaders see the network as an issue fundamental to US competitiveness, as countries such as Japan and Singapore are developing their own super-fast networks. The group has concluded the private industry should pay for the network, which could cost $120 billion. The Clinton administration has been calling for just such an 'information superhighway.'

Planning, Computer networks, Science and technology policy, Business enterprises, Trade and professional associations, Professional associations, Trade associations, Networks, Future Technologies, Companies, Strategic Planning

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Computer data on global warming questioned by federal meteorologists

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Three federal meteorologists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintain that it may be as long as 20 to 40 years before scientists know if global warming will be as bad as recent computer models predict. Thomas R. Karl, Richard R. Heim Jr, and Robert G. Quayle report their analyses of the weather records for the central US back to 1895. Results indicate that detectable changes in rain and snow patterns may take as long as 40 years to materialize. In an article published in a Mar 1991 issue of Science magazine, the researchers say they failed to find any trends in temperature and precipitation of the kinds predicted by the computer climate models.

Land, mineral, wildlife conservation, Research, Officials and employees, Forecasts and trends, Industrial research, Global warming, Environmental protection, United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research and Development, Reports, Karl, Thomas R., Heim, Richard R. Jr., Quayle, Robert G.

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A creaky computer system

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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners' computerized financial system known as the Insurance Regulatory Information System (IRIS) is not working as accurately in 1990 as it did in the 1970s. IRIS, which seeks out financially-troubled insurance companies, was successful in ferreting out 90 percent of companies that later became insolvent in the 1970s and had a meager 15 percent false alarm rate. IRIS fairs more poorly in 1990 with only a 75 percent accuracy rate. Industry observers blame the new inaccuracies on the increasing complexity of financial structures and IRIS is expected to make up for its deficiencies with enhancements.

INSURANCE CARRIERS, Management, Laws, regulations and rules, Insurance industry, Technology application, Government Regulation, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Regulatory Information System

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