Word: assist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What saved the fledgling industry was the discovery that applied artificial intelligence could produce concrete results when properly used. In 1978 the Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp. joined forces with AI Theoretician John McDermott of Carnegie Mellon University to develop XCon (for Expert Configurator), a system to assist salesmen in choosing parts for DEC computer systems from among tens of thousands of alternatives. XCon went on line in 1981, and for several years it was the only expert system in commercial use that companies could employ to gauge the worth of their technology. Today XCon configures almost every Digital computer...
March 14, 1988: HUCTW files its petition for an election with the NLRB. At the same time, union members hand-deliver letters to the homes of the Corporation members, requesting that they assist in ensuring a quick election...
Sophomore midfielder Perry Dodge started the scoring with an unassisted goal midway through the opening quarter. Two minutes later, Kramer--a sophomore attackman--tallied off an assist from junior attackman Brad Raymond. Post rebounded with a goal soon after...
...defenses then took control of the game, as neither squad was able to score until Kramer converted a Pennoyer assist about five minutes before halftime. Again, Post scored to cut the Harvard lead to 3-2 at the intermission...
...Krypton, the miraculous escape of the infant son of a Kryptonian scientist, the discovery of the baby's spaceship by an elderly couple near the Midwestern town of Smallville. And the gradual revelations of the child's superhuman strength, the foster parents' exhortation that he "must use it to assist humanity," the youth's adoption of a dual identity -- the mild-mannered, blue-suited newspaper reporter, Clark Kent, and the red-caped, blue-haired Superman, the man of steel. And Lois Lane, the toothsome fellow reporter who attached herself to the Superman-Kent duo, loving the one and snubbing...