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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...

Author: By John H. Tate iii, | Title: Harvard Amnesty Mail Protest Helps Free Political Prisoner | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard branch of Amnesty International (AI), along with three other college branches, apparently helped gain the release of a Pakistani political prisoner last month...

Author: By John H. Tate iii, | Title: Harvard Amnesty Mail Protest Helps Free Political Prisoner | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard AI sponsors write-in campaigns twice yearly. Last February members sent 3300 postcards calling for the release of two dissidents in Uruguay, and another major drive is scheduled for April...

Author: By John H. Tate iii, | Title: Harvard Amnesty Mail Protest Helps Free Political Prisoner | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL 1948: Berlin Airlift and Gandhi's Murderer | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Finishing First with the Fifth | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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