Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's industrialization into full swing during World War II. To fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...
...Minsky is convinced that there is nothing special about intelligence or creativity. He thinks that as machines are built to perform more complicated mental processes they will gradually acquire more of the "creative" abilities of the human brain. When the first intelligent machines are constructed, suggested Minsky (perhaps joking only slightly), they may refuse to admit that they are machines at all. Only the really intelligent ones, whose development will come much later, will realize that they are made of electronic components according to principles first discovered in the 1950s...
Electronic Surgeon. These complex abilities cannot be built into a machine from the outset, said Dr. Gill. The machine would have to learn them by long observation and training. The music-composing machine might learn-by-doing right from the start, but an "untrained" machine should not be put in charge of an airway system or operating room. It must first be permitted to watch human surgeons or traffic controllers. When it reached the human level of experience and intelligence, it could take over. From that point it should grow better and better, far surpassing humans...
...working hard on the problem of controlled fusion. He estimated that the situation is about "level pegging" between the Russians on one side, the British and Americans on the other. The Russians have an experimental machine which is virtually the twin of Britain's famous Zeta. But they built it in six months, while Britain needed two years. They have also constructed a "mirror machine," a U.S. specialty which is another approach to fusion power. "These are remarkable feats," said Sir John...
...also turned out dozens of show albums for the major record companies. In addition, he has built a fine reputation as an interpreter of baroque music, which he claims to understand intuitively because of his experience in "living theater." Currently, he is planning an operetta based on Chekhov's The Boor, recording albums of Broadway overtures (for Columbia), Broadway ballets (for RCA Victor), writing an autobiographical survey of the U.S. musical scene. His breathless commuting between composing and conducting, Broadway and highbrow, has earned him, in some quarters, the affectionate handle of "the Poor Man's Lenny Bernstein...