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James Baker (interrupting). That is so incorrect that I'd like to answer. What took us overnight -- we stayed up almost all night Wednesday, into the next day -- was an attempt to knock down rumor after rumor. That was a much bigger job than dealing with the underlying facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans3 16 2008 Bush: I Have to Wait and See | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...recognize the patterns in any solution to a problem by repeatedly feeding examples to the machine. The computer responds to each example by randomly activating its circuits in a particular configuration. The trainer electronically reinforces any connections that produce a correct answer and weakens those that produce an incorrect one. After as many as several thousand trials, the computer activates only those circuits that produce the right answer. "It works just like a kid," says Farrokh Khatibi, senior product manager at AI Ware Inc., a 3 1/2-year-old neurocomputing company in Cleveland. "It learns and learns, and when you tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Brainpower in a Box | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Harris said the computer "did not see that the engine bleed valve had fully closed." He said engineers were trying to determine if there was a faulty valve or if the sensor had given an incorrect reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Computer Aborts Shuttle Ignition Test | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...project while slightly startled state legislators look on. She can be imperious with others, and is quite exacting with those who work for her. If thank-you notes are not done perfectly, she demands new ones. She is vigilant about catching mistakes, from a misspelled name to an incorrect date. Even more so than her husband, she does not suffer incompetence gladly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitty Provides the Passion | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Error rates vary from one procedure or laboratory to another, but Pap tests and screenings for cholesterol are among those that are most often incorrect. The Federal Government monitors only labs that serve Medicare patients or do interstate business. State laws have been described by one investigator as a hopeless patchwork. Some laboratories submit to proficiency reviews in order to be certified by private professional groups, but thousands of other privately run labs are unregulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Going Overboard on Medical Tests | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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