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...extrapolate that no mathematician working at NASA should ever have got a C on a math test when he was learning. So what? I never said I was divine...
...TURING TESTERS Computer engineers will continue to measure their efforts to mimic human intelligence, as British mathematician Alan Turing suggested 50 years ago, by asking you whether you're talking to a person or a machine. By the time you can't tell the difference, these human simulators will be used as unflappable customer service reps as well as Internet attaches who can summarize your e-mails and even write back: "Hi, Mom, sorry I missed your call...
...There is little of substance in the Professor's rambling discourse. He, as a professional mathematician, has no better sense of how 95 percent of children encounter mathematics in school than his colleagues in the School of Education would have to question his recent work on "nilpotent orbits...
...REAR (8), chief mathematician. Now: cattle rancher; EW: $100 million...
...reasons he chose to become a mathematician is that it would allow him to continue a serious study of music. "I knew that with math it would be possible to be doing what I'm doing nowadays—researching and earning a living as a mathematician, while still being involved with music on a very high level." On a professional level, in fact. Last month, two of his compositions were performed in Boston, one by the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the other by the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Some of his work will also be performed next month...