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Researchers at SPH's Center for Population Studies organized the program, funded by the grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, because the topic of migration and economic development has recently been neglected by scholars, David Bell, director of the center, said yesterday...
...Mellon grant covers expenses for three years but SPH officials said yesterday that looking for more money or possibly expanding the current timetable would depend on the program's success...
...pioneering work in computers was done almost exclusively by a select group of European and American scientists who shared a loosely defined mandate: to make dumb machines act as if they had human intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design...
...spend up to $95 million a year on "new generation" computers for military applications. IBM, which has traditionally taken a hands-off attitude toward such "blue sky" efforts, is said to have committed a 25-man team to building a fifth-generation machine. Says Raj Reddy, director of Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute: "The Japanese may have awakened a sleeping giant...
...anticipation of the reappointment, but after it became official, the rally cooled off. The Dow Jones industrial average declined one point last week, to close at 1241.69. Investors are cautious because they recognize what a tough assignment is facing Volcker. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "We have not yet solved the problem of how to sustain a recovery without reigniting the fires of inflation. This will be Volcker's task, and no one has ever pulled it off before...