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...least that's the way the meaning of the Turing test is usually put. In truth, midway through his famous essay, Turing wrote, "The original question, 'Can machines think?,' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." His test wasn't supposed to answer this murky question but to replace it. Still, he did add, "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted...
...road game against Princeton midway through the season, expected to be tight, ended in a 25-point Harvard triumph. By that time, the league knew that Harvard was for real...
Cornell won a face-off midway through the first period and worked the puck to the left corner. The Big Red's Matt Cooney sent a seemingly harmless shot along the goal line towards senior Harvard goalie Tripp Tracy, who kicked the puck away...
...onstage as a comedian, speaking to live audiences is marginally less painful than winning an Oscar. But in the concert setting, he seems to enjoy it, peppering his comments with jokes and repartee. In Paris, much to the delight of the locals, he does all this in passable French. Midway through the show, he announces a series of clarinet-banjo duets. "The others have to rest their lips," he explains. "But not me. I'm very strong, because I live right. I eat well and sleep well." The audience howls with laughter...
...opening period ended with the teams still deadlocked at one. Harvard got an unlucky break midway through the second period, when sophomore Henry Higdon drove down the ice on a shorthanded bid, but was viciously taken down by a St. Lawrence defender. A no-call by the referee spurred a Saints' attack, which eventually penned Higdon and the rest of his tired shorthanded unit deep in the Harvard zone...