Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1920s, wish they were in the Polo Grounds and wear black on the day Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox threw the World Series in 1919. Contrary to what these purists believe, baseball changes. Yet, maybe the average baseball fan could take a cue from them and learn that baseball in the 1980s would never survive without turning back to baseball at the turn of the century...
...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...
...brain is the word neural," he argues. At best, neurocomputers consist of only a few thousand connections -- a very small number compared with the trillions of connections between billions of neurons found in the human brain. "Before trying to duplicate the human brain," Poggio says, "scientists will have to learn far more about the brain than they already know...
...What [the new technology] means is for the first time other kids can begin to learn that this kid who up to now had to use communication simply to make functional needs come and go and can't really do a lot of digressive calculations, other kids can learn for the first time that 'he's kind of a whiz at baseball statistics, we never knew that before. He's got a good sense of humor, we never knew that before,'" Brightman says...
...program is also for those who work tirelessly in this field, as it represents a forum where they can come together and learn from each other and from the latest technology so that when they return to their respective states, they'll have a clearer sense of the type of special equipment available...