Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which goes to prove a simple maxim: all people who count in life have, at one time or another, formed a meaningful bond with a baseball team. With the fact firmly established that all real people are baseball fans, it becomes possible to analyze the concept of Opening Day in a proper context...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, another computer is struggling to learn what any three-year-old child already knows: the difference between a cup and a saucer. What the youngster sees at a glance, the computer must be taught, painstakingly, one step at a time. First it must comprehend the concept of an object, a physical thing distinguished from the space around it by edges and surfaces. Then it must grasp the essential attributes of cupness: the handle, the leakproof central cavity, the stable base. Finally, it must deal with the exceptions, like the foam-plastic cup whose heat-insulating properties...
...they have a set of expectations about what they will find -- a desk or chair, perhaps, but certainly not, for example, an ocean. His idea was to package information in a way that accommodates those expectations: a room might also contain a bed, window and lamp. Minsky's frame concept allowed for more efficient use of the computer by enabling it to find what it needed directly, minimizing blind searches...
Daniel Steiner, vice president and general counsel, issued no comment, presumably because he was unaware of the incident. It seems that in handling the South African tour, everyone failed to consider the ramifications of their actions. It appears, too, that actions to end apartheid remains a vague concept to many, and that the importance of the issue as a whole has escaped notice by too many Americans--whether for "professional" reasons or others...
Hobson says his dual neuron dream model allows him and his research staff to study "dreaming as a state as opposed to dreaming as a story." Hobson's concept allowed the researchers to study the content of dreams not as Sigmund Freud would have psychoanalyzed them, but as physiological processes...