THE BEST LABS: A WALKING TOUR In 20 years, you won't need to take a walking tour of the top labs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Instead, you might make a ''virtual'' visit. Or you could send your trusty robot to fetch information from tomorrow's vast databases. In the meantime, BUSINESS WEEK reporters visited two dozen of the world's most highly regarded computer science laboratories. In the following pages are their reports from seven: Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Edinburgh, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sony, and British Telecom. The result is a walking tour of tomorrow. RELATED ITEMS STANFORD: EGGHEADS AND ENTREPRENEURS MIT: TWO BIG RIVALS ON CAMPUS CARNEGIE MELLON: AIMING FOR IMMORTALITY EDINBURGH: WHERE ERSATZ CRICKETS CHIRP UNC: TOOLS TO MANIPULATE VIRTUAL WORLDS SONY: A LITTLE SENSOR WITH A BIG FUTURE BRITISH TELECOM: NOTES FROM THE ANT COLONY

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