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What is most frightening about the AIDS epidemic in Africa is that it primarily affects heterosexuals, striking down men and women in equal numbers. "Many of us are very alarmed by what we are seeing in Africa," says Dr. Thomas Quinn, an infectious-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In the West, modern medical facilities, blood- screening equipment and speedy communications may keep AIDS under control. But Africa is on the front line of what some researchers are already calling an AIDS pandemic. The African experience suggests the dangers and tenacity of AIDS: how thoroughly...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said in a memo dated January 28 that software licenses "can have repercussions both for the individual and the institution." Addressed to software purchasers and users, the memo instructs members of the Faculty to ask designated expert to review their software licenses...
...When an individual signs a license, he is very often obligating the institution," said Dennis Devlin, administrative," computing systems manager whom Spence named as an expert who can review, but not sign, license agreements...
...ideal intellectual stomping ground to let loose pent-up speculative urges. It's a problem of literally earth-shattering import, it's endlessly debatable, and best of all it's completely hypothetical. No one every fought and nuclear war, or even came all that close to fighting one, so experts can only guess and guess again about the issue. And once you've mastered the lingo of kilotonnage and force posture, there is little difference between the nuclear amateur and the nuclear expert. It's a game anyone with a typewriter can play...
...EXPERT SYSTEMS. By playing a computer game of tic-tac-toe, visitors can get a rough idea of the workings of an expert system -- that is, a computer program that emulates the reasoning and procedures of an expert in a specialized field. The tic-tac-toe program relies on the judgment of seven internal "experts" in playing the game. For instance, WIN looks only for winning moves. DEFEND acts to block wins by its opponent, and DECIDE weighs the recommendations of the other six and dictates the moves. On the computer screen each of the experts...