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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Yahoo near naming Biondi, Chapple to board: source

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    Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:09pm EDT

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    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) is in the process of approving the appointments of former Viacom Inc (VIAb.N) CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple to its board and is expected to name the appointees by Friday, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

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    The appointments are not yet final but likely, the source said.

    Yahoo settled its proxy battle with Carl Icahn just days before its August 1 shareholder meeting, at which the activist investor had originally sought to replace the entire board with his nominees and oust Chief Executive Jerry Yang.

    As part of the deal, Yahoo agreed to appoint Icahn to its nine-member board and add two new directors from Icahn's list of nominees, which included Biondi and Chapple, by mid-August.

    Biondi, who runs an investment adviser firm, is the former chief executive of Universal Studios and Viacom. Chapple was the chief executive of Nextel Partners before it was bought by Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N).

    Yahoo also considered Jonathan Miller, former chief executive of Time Warner Inc's (TWX.N) AOL business, although he was not on Icahn's list. But Time Warner stepped in earlier this month to bar Miller from joining Yahoo, saying the conglomerate would enforce a non-compete pact with him.

    A Yahoo official declined to comment.

    (Editing by Mark Porter and Gary Hill)
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