Word: alto
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Despite these gains, current systems operate within strict limits and too often behave more like idiots savants than experts. Second-wave systems as yet have no common sense or awareness of the world outside their narrow slice of expertise. At high-tech redoubts like Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, scientists are planning decision-making systems that will behave more like real experts. Example: an all-purpose electronic repairman that uses knowledge and common sense about electricity to diagnose any problem put before it. At Xerox and elsewhere, other scientists are examining the very foundations of artificial intelligence...
Wheelwright could not be reached for comment at his home in Palo Alto, Ca. yesterday...
...plans. When a few carriers tried last year to increase the number of miles needed to qualify for free trips, many consumers were outraged. Attorneys general in several states concluded that the airlines' action was illegal, and the carriers backed off. But travelers remain wary. Tom Nolan, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney who has banked 150,000 miles on United, is contemplating a trip to Malaysia, Singapore and China later this year. It is earlier than he would like to travel, but, he says, "I'm very concerned that they're going to eliminate the good awards...
...sets down nearly 300 pages of testimonials supporting the hypothesis that women are attacking women in the workplace with carefully veiled venom and viciousness. "If women are going to sabotage someone, it's more likely to be another woman than a man," declares Briles, 42, a former Palo Alto, Calif., stockbroker...
...several occasions, betraying a testiness that belied his appeals to sweet reason. The Soviet leader's performance at his farewell press conference, in fact, may have undone some of the political gains of the previous three days. After arriving 15 minutes late at the Soviet Union's new Mt. Alto embassy complex, he launched into a detailed 70-minute monologue summing up his talks with Reagan. Near the end of his statement, however, he suddenly delivered a diatribe against the press -- the very group he most needed to win over to get his message across...