Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murphy said the Harvard officials who attended the meeting were: Administrative Director of Operations Thomas E. Vautin, Associate Director of Facilities and Maintenance Robert E. Lyng and Vivienne A. Rubeski, who works for the Office of Human Resources...
WINGS OF DESIRE. An angel, lured by human voices, falls in love and to earth. A timeless fantasy from West Germany's Wim Wenders...
...life into the ratings and repeated the trick seven years later, when she became host of WLS's struggling AM Chicago show. The program, which went national in September 1986, has won a huge following by focusing -- unduly, say some critics -- on the often bizarre nooks and crannies of human misfortune. "There is a commonality in human experience," Oprah contends. "If it's happened to one person, it has happened to thousands of others. Our shows are hour-long life lessons...
...more time scientists spend designing computers, the more they marvel at the human brain. Tasks that stump the most advanced supercomputer -- recognizing a face, reading a handwritten note -- are child's play for the 3-lb. organ. Most important, unlike any conventional computer, the brain can learn from its mistakes. Researchers have tried for years to program computers to mimic the brain's abilities, but without success. Now a growing number of designers believe they have the answer: if a computer is to function more like a person and less like an overgrown calculator, it must be built more like...
Perhaps the toughest competition that neural networks will face in the field of artificial intelligence comes from the so-called expert systems used in medicine, banking, navigation and other fields. Instead of looking for patterns, computerized expert systems distill the decision-making process used by human experts into rules of thumb. Neurocomputer researchers argue that neural networks will eventually prove superior, however, because they can adjust more easily to changes in the nature of the problem to be solved...