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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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    Senior Apple executive to leave: report

    Tue Nov 4, 2008 2:17am EST

    (Reuters) - One of Apple Inc's top executives, who was part of the development of the iPod, has decided to leave the company and will be replaced by a former employee of International Business Machine Corp, the Wall Street Journal said.

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    Tony Fadell, who is a senior vice president of Apple's iPod division and a part of the team involved in the development of the iPhone, is leaving the company citing personal reasons but may remain as a consultant, the paper said, citing people familiar with the matter.

    Fadell will be replaced by IBM's Mark Papermaster, the paper said.

    Papermaster, who was with IBM for the past 26 years, served as a member of the company's Integration & Values Team since 2006.

    IBM sued Papermaster last week to prevent him from joining Apple, citing a noncompeting agreement between him and the company that would prevent him from accepting a job with a competitor until A year after leaving the company.

    Apple and IBM could not be immediately reached for comment by Reuters.

    (Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore; Editing by David Holmes)
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