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Hussain described the show, a brainchild of MTV staff members Michael Dugan and Chris Kreski, as "MTV-style Jeopardy, except the host is like Dennis Miller on Valium and there is a huge brain sitting in the middle of the studio...
Proposition 209 began as the brainchild of two university professors, and in an Orwellian twist it became known as the California Civil Rights Initiative. A few weeks before Election Day, its supporters even considered running television advertisements featuring Martin Luther King Jr. in a perverse attempt to bolster public opinion in favor of it. The TV ads were scuttled when the King estate threatened legal action and the Rev. Jesse Jackson began to effectively demonstrate that King had been an early proponent of affirmative action, though the particular term was not popularized in his lifetime...
...depression screening program is the brainchild of Douglas G. Jacobs, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry...
Douglas Lenat has similar hopes for his artificially intelligent brainchild--a sprawling, data-rich computer program called CYC (as in encyclopedic). But where Brooks expects Cog to teach itself about the world, Lenat is leaving nothing to chance. For more than a decade, his CYC development team in Austin, Texas, has been typing in the rules of "human consensus reality" (otherwise known as common sense) one thuddingly obvious assertion at a time. "Bread is a food," for example, or "You're wet when you sweat." CYC knows nearly a million of these rules now, and when it has another million...
...group was the brainchild of council member Eric M. Nelson'99, who is a Crimson editor. The coalition held its first meeting this past Tuesday...