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Computers have been playing passable chess since 1966, when M.I.T. Student Richard Greenblatt wrote a program called MacHack that trounced Hubert Dreyfus, a Berkeley philosopher who had insisted that no computer would ever beat even a ten-year-old. Today chess machines defeat most casual players, and the best programs can hold their own against all but the top grand masters...
...duplicate last spring's mass demonstrations. Though about 2,000 gathered in Manhattan, Columbia's hometown, only a small group attended a teach-in on apartheid at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. At Connecticut's Wesleyan University, some 100 protesting students were arrested. Even the University of California, Berkeley, turned out only 1,000 protesters. A student leader blamed midterm exams for the lack of enthusiasm...
...Salvador: Eyewitness Report: Gus Newport, Mayor of Berkeley, CA, Saturday at 8 pm, Roxbury Community College, 625 Huntington Ave., Rm.307-Km Boston, call...
Ramon de los Reyes Spanish Dance Theatre: Will present a lecture demonstration combining storytelling with rhythmic dances. John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street, 10am...
What caused the death of dinosaurs? Scientists have blamed their demise on everything from lowered sea levels to lowered sperm counts. Now William Clemens, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has added to the mystery. His expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, uncovered a cache of 180 dinosaur bones in Alaska, several hundred miles farther north than the creatures had previously been found. Among the fossils are skeletal remains of hadrosaurs, plant-eating duck-billed dinosaurs that stood up to 15 ft. high, and the teeth of a Tyrannosaurus-type carnivore...