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...wake of increasing drinking-related fatalities at fraternity houses nationwide. Last year Zeta Psi's Stanford chapter voluntarily disbanded when a member of the fraternity died after a rush event, says Joseph M. Pisano, an assistant dean of student affairs and the fraternal affairs advisor at the Palo Alto school. In the 1970s, Pisano says, the chapter had lost recognition from the university because of hazing practices but regained official status several years...
Despite these gains, current systems operate within strict limits and too often behave more like idiots savants than experts. Second-wave systems as yet have no common sense or awareness of the world outside their narrow slice of expertise. At high-tech redoubts like Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, scientists are planning decision-making systems that will behave more like real experts. Example: an all-purpose electronic repairman that uses knowledge and common sense about electricity to diagnose any problem put before it. At Xerox and elsewhere, other scientists are examining the very foundations of artificial intelligence...
Pilots are not the only ones worrying about the reliability of sophisticated military expert systems. Terry Winograd, an AI pioneer turned critic who is now at Stanford, has formed a Palo Alto-based group called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility to oppose the use of second-wave systems in military applications. Winograd believes that isolating experts from the unforeseen consequences of their decisions is "perhaps the most ! subtle and dangerous consequence of the patchwork rationality of present expert systems." He is specifically concerned about the use of expert systems in President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars system...
Wheelwright could not be reached for comment at his home in Palo Alto, Ca. yesterday...
...plans. When a few carriers tried last year to increase the number of miles needed to qualify for free trips, many consumers were outraged. Attorneys general in several states concluded that the airlines' action was illegal, and the carriers backed off. But travelers remain wary. Tom Nolan, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney who has banked 150,000 miles on United, is contemplating a trip to Malaysia, Singapore and China later this year. It is earlier than he would like to travel, but, he says, "I'm very concerned that they're going to eliminate the good awards...