Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to respond appropriately to unexpected tasks and problems. To develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating a mathematical model of the intellect, as an older generation of AI researchers have tried and failed...
What I hoped to accomplish by writing this letter are private recognitions and public acknowledgements of the real problems of Kirkland's reputation on campus. It is unfortunate that the cowardly whitewashing and misnaming of these elements of discrimination and intolerance in Kirkland House, which have produced an atmosphere there that is inconsistent with University standards for diversity in education, have forced the airing of Kirkland's dirty laundry beyond the confines of its own walls. It is imperative that a new perspective on this dilemma be gained and a more courageous stance for its resolution be made...
...called for 2 p.m. People began showing up at about 1:30 and never numbered more than 500. Adolfo, a shop clerk, viewed the crowd from the safety of the store and then explained why. "I want Noriega out, but my getting beat up isn't going to accomplish that." Observed a veteran politician: "Panamanians won't take the suffering. We are a bourgeois society...
Rarely does a team accomplish everything that it expects in a season. But for the second straight year, the Harvard women's squash team did just that...
...almost certain to turn the ethnic unrest into an argument against further liberalization. "What is the implication in these riots for Gorbachev?" asks Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. "The implication is disaster. After 70 years of repression, it is not so easy to accomplish what he wants, and this will be a black mark against him by Russian nationalists and traditional centralists...