Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):  (learn more)
restart protection, space sextant, digital autopilot, landing radar, 
program alarms, rendezvous radar, reaction thrusters, scanning telescope, 
braking phase, inertial platform, descent engine, human spaceflight, 
powered descent, erasable memory, pilot opinion, gimbal lock, 
descent stage, abort button, flying qualities, guidance computer
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Neil Armstrong, North American, World War, Age of Systems, 
Chris Kraft, David Scott, Jack Garman, Space Task Group, Michael Collins, 
Scott Crossfield, Robert Chilton, Project Apollo, Edwards Air Force Base, 
Joe Shea, Aaron Cohen, Alan Shepard, Don Eyles, Draper Laboratories, 
Floyd Bennett, Eldon Hall, Charlie Duke, Mission Control, Deke Slayton, 
United States, Mercury Seven

When I push [my toaster] lever down, if there's a crumb stuck in the coils, it isn't long before my fragile pre-coffee state is shattered by the piercing siren of my smoke detector. It doesn't know about the toast, but really it should. If it were sociable, as soon as it detected particulate matter in the air, it would query the toaster to see if it had been activated. That would tell it that in all likelihood, it wasn't detecting an unattended, middle-of-the-night fire but instead a benign morning meal. The price of low-power radio networking and the just-minted funding for smart home energy networks makes this sociable smoke-detector scenario entirely within our reach. I want one.

"When the neural net is run it takes the 64 values that've been computed from one of the characters in the captcha and compares it against a single pre-computed letter of the alphabet. It continues in the manner assigning a score for each letter of the alphabet (a final result might be 'A 98% likely', 'B 36% likely', etc.)."

"As the custom Trek bikes churned out 260-watts of power each, Dr. John Mucci -- the company's CEO -- said, "Ten years ago, this analysis was impossible on even the biggest computers, and now it's being done on a bicycle powered machine," then added, "Ten years from now, we'll probably be doing it right down at the docks as they unload the ships." Which sounds kind of weird, but isn't."