One of Mr. Daniels's arias, with its lower tessitura, didn't project, and Ms. Harvey's sometimes excessive vibrato seemed calculated to reach the back of the hall, no matter what.
Mr. CLELAND: Well, you really can't project the future from looking at the past because when you start doing voice over technology--and we call it techcom, which is a convergence of technology and telecom--you're really changing from a service to an application.
We wouldn't embark on this project if we didn't feel it had strategic long-term value, this isn't a one-off shot.
Ferguson says it doesn't take a Project Grey Goose to figure out that the proliferation of autorun viruses probably wasn't the result of a targeted attack.
Hal wouldn't have been destitute if the project hadn't worked.
And I was always - in those times I was feeling very guilty that I wasn't doing the project.
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"We don't want the project to stall after we break ground, " said Bordainick.
He later backtracked, saying he wasn't sure the project was feasible.
"At first we didn't think the project would be about urban renewal, " Ryan Chin a research fellow at MIT who has worked on the project since 2000, told CNN.
Mr. Page's response was to ask why Mr. Kurzweil didn't pursue his project inside Google, since Google controlled resources that Mr. Kurzweil surely would not be able to replicate outside.
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Labour's Lord Anderson of Swansea said there was considerable support for the project in Wales and it would be a tragedy if the government didn't look seriously at the project.
Together, the old friends lead a quartet that both insist isn't just a side project.
In fact, in New Orleans alone, isn't the River Garden project one that has had some success?
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Today the U.S. ambassador, Ryan Crocker, said he wasn't sure where this project was at the same time.
This isn't the kind of project you can ask a few engineers to bang out in a week.
"We were hostile because we didn't believe in his project, " said Michael Wamen, CGT's representative for the plant.
So, then, if this is such an amazing platform-to-be, a device that will change our lives, why wasn't Maris wearing a Project Glass headset himself?
Honeywell executives, who haven't previously discussed the project publicly, say the system uses onboard computers and navigation devices to automatically control aircraft movements on the ground.
"We believe that this isn't a particularly lucrative project, but it will run in the black, " said George Aridas, senior vice president of the Albanese Organization.
He also noted that "people have to be aware of very profound differences in copyright law, so you can't just transpose this project to other countries".
The organization isn't directly investing in Project Glass itself, of course, with Google already having seen that its X division has what it needs in that regard.
"This is literally a turning point in the relationship between man and nature, " said molecular biologist Richard Ebright at Rutgers University, who wasn't involved in the project.
Donald Tighe, an In-Q-Tel spokesman, wouldn't confirm whether the project was ultimately planned for government or private sector use, but he hinted that a simple conference room may be just the beginning.
If you're wondering whether or not MIT's work will venture beyond the labs, don't -- the project was financed by contract manufacturing giant Foxconn, and it's already catching the eye of Microsoft Research.
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By comparison, the Duke device represents the "first cut" at making gigapixel cameras for general use, said Shree Nayar, a computer-vision researcher at Columbia University in New York, who has seen the camera at work but wasn't involved in the project.
So far the project hasn't started marketing space partly because it hasn't received the necessary government permits.
"If you have a real political project, that project can't just be about you, " says Ms Moure.
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