Word: alto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tennis. Finally, there are the buildings, the picturesque, mission-style structures with their red tile roofs and colonnaded sandstone facades. Could anything that looks this much like a country club be a serious academic institution? It could if its name is the Leland Stanford Junior University of Palo Alto, California...
...million parasitic worms at $14.95 a bargain? Biosys, a Palo Alto, Calif., firm thinks so: last month it began selling packages of nearly microscopic nematodes through home-garden catalogs under the name BioSafe. The company hopes to become a leader in the emerging market for environmentally safe pesticides. The worms kill insects by taking up residence inside the pests' bloodstreams but are harmless to humans, pets, birds and plants. So safe is the product, says Biosys, that it is exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide regulations. The company hopes the safety assurance will help push annual sales...
...Leean is our `Wookie Mom,'" says Hopkins, a native of Palo Alto, Cal. "When we get out of the pool after scoring a goal, she looks like a proud mother...
...wake of increasing drinking-related fatalities at fraternity houses nationwide. Last year Zeta Psi's Stanford chapter voluntarily disbanded when a member of the fraternity died after a rush event, says Joseph M. Pisano, an assistant dean of student affairs and the fraternal affairs advisor at the Palo Alto school. In the 1970s, Pisano says, the chapter had lost recognition from the university because of hazing practices but regained official status several years...
Pilots are not the only ones worrying about the reliability of sophisticated military expert systems. Terry Winograd, an AI pioneer turned critic who is now at Stanford, has formed a Palo Alto-based group called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility to oppose the use of second-wave systems in military applications. Winograd believes that isolating experts from the unforeseen consequences of their decisions is "perhaps the most ! subtle and dangerous consequence of the patchwork rationality of present expert systems." He is specifically concerned about the use of expert systems in President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars system...