Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, better manuals may be on the way. Leading technical schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, N.Y., and Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon have writing programs that teach students how to translate complex facts into clear directions. Enrollment in the classes is high, and instructors say that corporations have been snapping up their graduates...
...problem arises when the question comes up of what exactly this decentralized network--which professors and administrators describe as inevitable--will look like. A number of institutions--principally Brown, MIT, and Carnegie-Mellon--have already sunk millions into wiring their campuses. Harvard has preferred, however, to take a wait-and-see attitude, anxious about the logistical difficulties of the move and fearful of technological obsolence...
Currently there are several private corporation such as Bell Laboratories, and universities, such as Carnegie Mellon and the California Institute of Technology which are also working in this area of "computer optics...
...trying to do the same thing and there is a finite amount of money out there," says Carnegie Mellon Professor David Casasent, who also works in the field...
Critics fear the new trend will culminate in the development of an all encompassing brain, and such worries may not be pure speculation. Nobel lauireate Herbert Simon, professor of computer science and psychology at Carnegie-Mellon, sees no restrictions on the science and believes that human intelligence will one day be recreated. Yet if an understanding is what onlookers seek, they had best concentrate on the reeasoning that spawned such efforts rather than on the possible realization of science fiction folklore...