Accountant Janet Copeland and her husband, Peter, a retired corporate attorney, bought the 1949 Eric Brown House in Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Instead of peppering Watson with questions, I spoke with IBM researcher Eric Brown, one of the lead scientists on the project.

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Speaking to National Review, Brown's chief political strategist Eric Fehrnstrom said that "terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants" was a "more potent issue" for Massachusetts voters than health care.

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In May, New York's insurance commissioner, Eric Dinallo, urged Brown to move the capital to ease concerns about MBIA. The company announced its decision to move the capital on the same day Moody's published a report detailing what it saw as significant deteriorations in certain home equity and other asset-backed securities backed by bond insurance.

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The lineup of speakers will include molecular biology pioneer Leroy Hood, co-founder of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki, scientific revolutionary and provocateur Eric Schadt, health insurance data analytics innovator Tina Brown-Stevenson, and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla, to name a few.

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But former Motherwell manager Eric Black or former Scotland defender Colin Hendry will be Brown's assistant.

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