Brains that target leaky nappies with military precision

Article Abstract:

Professor Graham Nudd of the computer science department of Warwick University, UK is adapting a military computer system for Procter and Gamble who want a system to detect leaks in nappies. Nudd is also working on a European project called Performance Evalaution of Parallel Systems (Peps), following concern that the UK industry has failed to accept parallel computers. Parallel systems are being used successfully in the US for designing cars and aeroplanes and in other areas. Nudd examined 1,000 companies and found that businesses would be more successful if they used parallel systems.

Parallel processing

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Ambitious target for state sell-offs

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Privatizations in Turkey raised only $465 million in 1997, but the government is now keen to speed up the privatization process. It aims to raise $12 billion from privatizations overall in 1998, including $9 billion in cash. The key element in the government's privatization programme is Turk Telecom. This concern, along with energy utilities, is likely to account for the largest part of the 1998 target. Other companies to be sold include state oil refining concern Tupras.

Economic policy, Turkey, Privatization, Privatization (Business)

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Revising the target list

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Nuclear threats may not come from the directions previously expected as political change in the USSR has reduced the threat from there, but an unstable unexpected source could detonate a nuclear weapon. Countries with nuclear weapons did have tightly organised targeting plans for the weapons, but with the new world order as Moscow applies to join NATO, these plans may be redundant. Targeting in the future may be reduced to crisis reaction to unexpected threats.

Military aspects, Targeting (Nuclear strategy)

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