Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pittsburgh, Thomas Gaidosh, 47, a burly, 6-ft. 3-in. factory worker and father of two, languished in his hospital bed last month, struggling for his life. For weeks, doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital had been searching for a donor heart to replace his debilitated one. Time was running out. Across the state, in the chocolate capital of Hershey, Anthony Mandia, 44, was losing a similar battle. Mandia, a Philadelphia recreation-center director, had a history of coronaries, and now his heart was deteriorating rapidly, but no donor could be found. On the West Coast, Richard Dallara, 33, an auto...
...weeks ago in Pittsburgh, Hitech finished first in a ten-team tournament that included four chess masters. Last week it made short work of three weaker machines before taking on the Cray. Two hours into that game, a crack opened up in the Cray's king-side attack, and the minicomputer swooped in for the kill. Says Robert Hyatt, chief designer of the losing program: "We were at its mercy...
While Karpov and Kasparov were face to face, the two computers were 750 miles apart--the Cray in Mendota Heights, Minn., the Sun on the Pittsburgh campus of Carnegie-Mellon University. The computers' moves were sent over telephone lines to Denver and relayed to a regulation chessboard. But distance did not hurt the game. Says Chess Master David Levy: "For the first time a program played like a strong human player...
...When you have the technology, damn it, you should use it," says Dallas Cowboys General Manager Schramm, a member of the National Football League's five-man "competition committee," which every off-season invades the Hawaiian islands in the pursuit of progress. The other mad scientists are Miami and Pittsburgh Coaches Don Shula and Chuck Noll, and Atlanta and Cincinnati Executives Eddie LeBaron and Paul Brown. "Every now and then," says Schramm, "we'll move out onto the grass and play like we're football players. Here we are, five strange men in shorts, demonstrating different ways ^ of holding each...
...voting members of the academy are primarily university scholars in the behavioral sciences, humanities, and education. Harvard has more members in the Pittsburgh-centered group than any other university, Graham said...