Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will the Kremlin leaders succeed in terrorizing dissidents into silence with show trials like Shcharansky's? The consensus among both dissidents and Sovietologists abroad appears to be that they will live to fight another day. "The publicity given the trials is very encouraging," said Computer Scientist Valentin Turchin, 47, who...
A computer may know
Can a computer predict suicide attempts? Better yet, can it do so as successfully as a therapist? On the basis of preliminary tests at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, the answer is a tentative yes.
That conclusion was reached after hundreds of depressed patients had been interviewed by a computer programmed by Psychiatrist John Greist and David Gustafson, professor of preventive medicine. In 72 of the cases, the computer predictions were compared with those made by therapists in traditional face-to-face interviews. The computer...
Greist believes it is the methodical and impersonal nature of computer interrogation that may make it more accurate. "Doctors are often reluctant to ask direct questions," he says. "Patients talk readily to doctors about chest pains and nosebleeds. But when the problem is homosexuality, illicit drug use or thoughts of...