Word: ai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Harvard AI chapter includes 300 members. Funding for the fall drive came from a $220 grant from the Undergraduate Council and from $300 in student donations...
...Harvard branch of Amnesty International (AI), along with three other college branches, apparently helped gain the release of a Pakistani political prisoner last month...
...tiny Beretta automatic pistol. He fired three times. One bullet ripped into Gandhi's chest, two into his belly. With hands folded, as if welcoming the blow, in the gesture that is both the Hindu greeting and the Christian attitude of prayer, Gandhi fell backward. He murmured, "Ai Ram, Ai Ram" (O Rama, O Rama), in invocation to the gentle hero of the Hindu pantheon, Gandhi's favorite...
Until now, the pioneering work in computers was done almost exclusively by a select group of European and American scientists who shared a loosely defined mandate: to make dumb machines act as if they had human intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command...
There are signs in the U.S. that the alarm has been heard. Since Japan launched its fifth-generation project two years ago, dozens of U.S. firms, from Westinghouse to Atari, have started AI departments. Early this year the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that it expected to spend up to $95 million a year on "new generation" computers for military applications. IBM, which has traditionally taken a hands-off attitude toward such "blue sky" efforts, is said to have committed a 25-man team to building a fifth-generation machine. Says Raj Reddy, director of Carnegie...