Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They now have a chance to be published in Tempus, an undergraduate history journal first published last month. Tempus is a forum for students to share their research and ideas, said co-creator Sujit M. Raman...
Topics of pieces in the first journal ranged from Harvard's construction and operation of the seventeenth-century Indian College to the Boston Chinatown raid...
Since his original paper, Turing had considerably broadened his thoughts on thinking machines. He now proposed the idea that a machine could learn from and thus modify its own instructions. In a famous 1950 article in the British philosophical journal Mind, Turing proposed what he called an "imitation test," later called the "Turing test." Imagine an interrogator in a closed room hooked up in some manner with two subjects, one human and the other a computer. If the questioner cannot determine by the responses to queries posed to them which is the human and which the computer, then the computer...
...vaccine worked. But the world of science has a protocol for releasing such findings: first publish them in a medical journal, and then spread the credit as widely as possible. Salk took part in a press conference and went on radio but gave credit to nobody, including himself--of course, he was going to get the credit anyway. And that was the mistake that would haunt...
Writing up their findings for the journal Nature, the famously brash Watson and Crick donned a British reserve. They capped a dry account of DNA's structure with one of the most famous understatements in the history of science: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." They faced the question of byline: Watson and Crick, or Crick and Watson? They flipped a coin...