Word: dyson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alan Dyson, executive director of the Cambridge Partnership for Public Education, a coalition of businesses and universities set up two years ago, said his office awarded the grants of $300 to $500 last month to "build bridges to reduce isolation." He said teachers would use the money to bring in advocacy organizations for groups such as immigrants and the handicapped to talk with students about their background...
...that a combination of neural networks and expert systems could solve problems too tough for either to tackle alone. Since natural intelligence consists of several ways of reasoning, the argument goes, computer engineers will have to design artificial intelligence with more than one way of processing information. Says Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, a computer-industry newsletter: "A neural network will tell the difference between a Russian tank and an American tank, and an expert system will tell whether to shoot...
Physicist Freeman Dyson, at the College of Wooster, Ohio: "The game of status seeking, organized around committees, is played in roughly the same fashion in Africa, in America and in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the aptitude for this committee game is part of our genetic inheritance, like the aptitude for speech and for music...
...should Infinite in All Directions, even though it is a revised version of a series of academic talks delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1985 and hence an unlikely candidate for popular appeal. But Dyson is not the first person to turn a Gifford lectureship in Scotland into a book; other products of this prestigious assignment include William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience and Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality. Anyone would be daunted by such illustrious predecessors, including Dyson: "Confronted with the fact that I was not William James or Alfred Whitehead, I decided to make...
Physicist Freeman Dyson shows that science and imagination are Infinite in All Directions. -- Anita Brookner' s deft novel of illusion...