Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mycin took some 20 man-years to complete. It turned out to be more accurate than the humans against whom it was tested: in one trial, the system prescribed the correct treatment 65% of the time, in contrast to human specialists, who were right in 42.5% to 62.5% of cases. Still, Mycin did not have a clue that it was diagnosing a human being, nor did it have any idea what a human is. In fact, it was perfectly capable of trying to prescribe penicillin to fix a broken window. All it could do was rigidly test the applicability...
...March 8 article on Women's History Week, I was incorrectly quoted as saying that the History Department has made absolutely no commitment to bringing in a woman's historian. Professor Angeliki Laiou, chair of the History Department, was quite correct in pointing out, in her letter to The Crimson of March 11, that the History Department has indeed appointed Professor Olwen Hufton, a historian of European women. As Professor Laiou noted, I am certainly aware of the appointment, since Professor Hufton is also chair of the Committee of Degree's on Women's Studies, the program in which...
...thought we had his character analysis correct down to the last petty neurosis. After all, he seemed a textbook case of rabidly loyal third world dictator. Why, his sense of loyalty seemed so profound that his vicious jackboot secret police force were nicknamed after a breed of dog: dobermans. They dressed in black. A nice touch...
...million callers on its toll-free phone lines this season, up from 17 million in 1987. The agency, which has invested 2.5 million hours in training its entire staff for tax reform, has increased its ranks of telephone assisters by 1,000, to 4,500. To determine whether correct information is going out, the IRS is making 20,000 anonymous calls in which common tax problems are posed to its assisters. So far the results are disappointing. After 5,000 calls, the error rate...
...would imagine that as the President of the Republican Club, Mr. Rea certainly has a fairly good understanding of politics and could find many contemporary examples of "running roughshod," "personal animosity," and "shouting matches" in politics. While he is also correct in suggesting that such actions, when they actually do occur, are matters for serious concern, I must maintain that such terms simply do not come to mind as I look back upon the calm and dignified actions of Chairperson Mandery last Sunday...