Word: beene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"If it were me, a 40 year old lawyer in a suit, I would not have been bumped off the airplane," he said.
"It has become a tradition for the U.S. president to do the announcement," Winsten said. "He's been very supportive of all of our campaigns, and we've worked closely with him."
It once was a house of worship, but has since been turned over to secular purposes. It has housed George Washington's troops, a fire engine shop, and most recently, Harvard's choral program. More than 250 years old, Holden Chapel was showing its age.
When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart...
So far, there's been little worry of wily computers inventing ways to outsmart (and replace) their owners. The annoying little paperclip in Microsoft Word is no great testament to the progress of artificial intelligence. But the claim that computers can't create has been challenged by two recent experiments...