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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...
...college educators, Harry Edwards is disgusted and alarmed. Schools across the country have been shaken by yet another series of athletic scandals involving gambling on rigged games, alleged cocaine traffic among players, and recruiting payoffs. Underlying these recurrent problems, says Edwards, a sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, is a deeper issue: the colleges' neglect of the education of their athletes. "I've known athletes . . . who are functional illiterates and have been here for four years," says Edwards, a former college basketball player and track star. "If this is going on at Berkeley, which is supposed to have...
...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...