Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Computer scientists very quickly gave up trying to program computers to play like humans. Experiments that took advantage of the brute calculating force of the machines--where the computer analyzes every possible legal move in every position--produced much stronger moves. As computers got faster and the evaluation functions were made better and better, computer chess players just kept getting stronger...
After federal officials suspended a $14 million contract on Tuesday with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), one of Harvard's most prestigious think tanks has found itself embroiled in a legal and political battle that spans two continents...
...Harvard has no institutional connection with Brookhaven. Our official connection began in the late 1940s. We have not had a legal connection since then," Huppe said...
...court-appointed arbitrator ordered the utility to pay $1.1 million to the plaintiff. (Federal law limits awards to $50,000 for an employee in a company of 100 or fewer and $300,000 for a company of 500 or more, as well as money for back pay and legal fees.) "It was a wacky decision," says PG&E lawyer Kenneth Yang, yet he acknowledges that the law has not caused the company any "undue hardship...
...dependents. It is clear to those of us working in the community that our effort and money would be better spent on eliminating poverty and creating equal opportunities for all our children, and not on merely reducing the number of families who are receiving welfare. PATRICIA DELESSIO, Staff Attorney Legal Action of Wisconsin Milwaukee...