Unit 20 New Frontiers Warm-up
Exercise 3 Listen to four extracts and identify these different programmes.

1 It was announced today that the launch
of the shuttle,taking a new crew to the international Space Station, Alpha, has been delayed due to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center. The new international crew are planning to take over from the existing one and to carry out repairs on the solar panels, which suffered slight damage last week.
2 Our next guest is Rosalind Picard from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Good evening.Now Rosalind, you're the author of the book Emotional Computers and you're a pioneer in the field of "affective computing". What exactly is that? Well, basically, we are carrying out research into ways of producing computers that can sense our mood and react to us. This may sound like science fiction, but...
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