Word: adapt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predecessor that lost to Kasparov 4-2 last year. Tutored by international grand chess champion Joel Benjamin, the machine now knows more about chess as well. But Kasparov remains confident. His battle plan? Detect weak points and keep switching strategies, betting that Deep Blue will be slow to adapt...
However, Bertone says that although there is not a lot advising at SPH to help students adjust, it is easy to adapt to the setting...
Swados and research director Christopher Terrio '97 have chosen some unconventional texts to adapt for the stage. The pieces range from casual stories of personal experience and issue-driven rants to humorous dialogues and touching poems. One story is about a little girl who says she's going to Christ; another involves a man trying to start a conversation with a woman sitting next to him on a bus. Others focus on more particular aspects of society, including race, sexuality and technology. Yet the large majority of the writing chosen illuminates the motivating forces that hold people together in confusing...
...Navy and the Air Force have regularly rewritten their tactical manuals to keep up with the rapid technological advances of the past 25 years, but the Army has been slower to adapt. Now it is trying to make up for lost time. The two-week Mojave war game, which is testing an elaborate new command-and-control system and 72 new pieces of hardware, is the Army's biggest push yet to boot up, log on and march in the information revolution...
Mann said he was impressed with Granger's willingness to adapt and revise the play, and by "his wry sense of humor...