Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MacLachlan, 20, wears faded jeans, a plaid shirt and a blue headband to keep his flowing blond hair at bay. He is barefoot. On this night he is running through the SPICE program on a $70,000 Symbolics LM2 computer. The project's goal: to provide a network (a group of interconnected computers) with almost unlimited memory and computation power. He also uses the terminal to play games-Star Wars, Splines and Worm-devised by students and faculty members at C.M.U. and other schools...
Modern geopolitics and warfare changed the governmental attitude. Franklin Roosevelt understood the strategic importance of Latin America during World War II. Harry Truman endorsed those ideas. Dwight Eisenhower was humiliated by Fidel Castro's Marxist government, and Ike planned the Bay of Pigs, which John Kennedy launched and bungled. For all of that, rousing this nation to any deep and lasting interest in Lathi America was impossible. Even with rumors flying around Washington in the summer of 1962 about the Soviet buildup in Cuba, Kennedy was only half listening, although he ordered U-2 surveillance that discovered the offensive...
...guided one of the largest ships afloat through eight months and 46,500 uneventful miles at sea. Suddenly Captain Robert J. Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water...
...more than five hours, the huge flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay. The 3,500-man crew could only stare across the short, unbridgeable distance to some 3,000 friends and relatives waiting in frustration at Alameda Naval Air Station, the carrier's home port. On shore, a gentle drizzle ruined the coiffures of women who had long looked forward to the reunions. Shirley Genson of Centerville, Ala., lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband...
...known for his scrupulous fairness. During his tenure, he increased the Times's national and foreign coverage and pressed for shortened sentences and sharpened stories. In his most debated decision, he approved publication of a report on a planned invasion of Cuba ten days before the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, but softened the article by deleting references to CIA involvement and to the invasion's imminence...