Word: computerize
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The QRR can be fulfilled by passing a computer exam and a data test or by successfully completing QRA or one of its substitute courses.
Fuzzy logic began to find applications in industry in the early '70s, when it was teamed with another form of advanced computer science called the expert system. A product of research into artificial intelligence, expert systems solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example...
The Japanese, however, showed no such resistance, perhaps because their culture is not so deeply rooted in scientific rationalism. Says Bart Kosko, a Zadeh protege and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California: "Fuzziness begins where Western logic ends." In the early '80s several Japanese firms...
The U.S. is not totally out of the fuzzy picture yet. A small firm in Irvine, Calif., Togai InfraLogic, has already achieved several of the goals MITI set for itself, including a fuzzy computer chip that can perform 28,600 fuzzy-logical inferences per sec. (FLIPS). And NASA is experimenting...
An obscure professor's oddball approach to computer science, long neglected in the U.S., struck a cultural chord in Japan and is beginning to pay off.