Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Navy brass had feared for weeks that the tragedy of Iran Air 655 would claim another victim: the controversial Aegis system aboard the U.S.S. Vincennes. How could that complex network of radar and computers have mistaken a civilian airliner for an attacking fighter plane? But when the fragmentary results of Rear Admiral William Fogarty's investigation leaked last week, blame fell not on the machines but on the men who were operating them. Under the pressure of combat, Pentagon sources say, the overwrought sailors on the Vincennes misread the radar data about the oncoming Airbus and passed faulty information...
...Virtually every televangelist, including Pat Robertson, has mentioned the film during appeals for money. A nonsectarian group called Concerned Women for America has asked all MCA stockholders to sell the company's stock on Sept. 15. And Mother Angelica, a nun who runs the nation's largest Catholic cable network, is calling on protesters to drive with their lights on on Aug. 22. Both dates were picked at random when the opening was still set for September...
...cheating Medicaid out of $3.6 million since 1986. The leaders of the ring were Surinder Panshi, 39, a Queens physician, and his father Gurdial Panshi, 68. The Panshis allegedly launched their scheme by buying three clinics that were authorized to conduct tests for Medicaid patients. They then established a network of blood collectors who combed poor neighborhoods for people willing to sell their blood for about $10 for 20 vials. The Panshi ring allegedly paid their collectors a lucrative $25 a vial, to which the suspects attached the forged signature of a physician who was supposedly requesting a test...
...Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard noted last week, the autumn may not be a "total disaster" for audiences. Olympics coverage and baseball play-offs typically overshadow even full-fledged competition, so rival network executives may be just as happy not to have to expose fragile newcomers until later and viewers may not mind what looks to be a glut of reruns. The Olympics will enable NBC to showcase commercials for its roster of upcoming series. ABC has assigned that promotional role, among others, to the first 18 hours of War and Remembrance, a $105 million adaptation of Herman Wouk's World...
Others predict that a combination of neural networks and expert systems could solve problems too tough for either to tackle alone. Since natural intelligence consists of several ways of reasoning, the argument goes, computer engineers will have to design artificial intelligence with more than one way of processing information. Says Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, a computer-industry newsletter: "A neural network will tell the difference between a Russian tank and an American tank, and an expert system will tell whether to shoot...