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...symposium in honor of former Professor of Chinese and Central Asian History Joseph F. Fletcher Jr.'57, called "Islamic Revivalism from Arabia to China," four experts in this field presented scholarly papers on topics ranging from Sufi mysticism to 18th Century Islamic scholars...
...annual symposium is designed to continue work done by Fletcher, who was the world's expert on Inner Mongolia, and to create a financial base for such studies...
Other requirements, according to Fletcher: "The computers must be able to operate in a nuclear environment and must be hardened to survive radiation and shock. To keep crucial command, control and communications capabilities out of the fray, some of the computers would be placed in high orbit halfway to the moon." Humans would make the key strategic decisions in advance, determining under what conditions the missile defense would start firing, and devise a computer system that could translate those decisions into a program. In the end the defensive response would be out of human hands: it would be activated...
...bits of information from sensors and weapons platforms, determine which weapons to fire, when to fire them and at what targets. Not only could no human write such a program unassisted, no human could check it for errors. That would have to be done by computer too. James Fletcher, who headed the Administration's original S.D.I. study, estimates the program might have to be put through 50 million debugging runs before it would be battle-ready...
...head up to Georgetown, then keep on going, down to the Potomac and Fletcher's Boathouse. Rent a canoe, and paddle out with your lunch and The Post to one of the Three Sisters' Islands. From there, you might wallow in your tranquility by watching the traffic snarl on Key Bridge a quarter of a mile away--too far to be heard or smelt, but close enough to enjoy...