Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) program has successfully accommodated the more than 400 sophomores who returned this fall on academic probation, after failing one or both parts of the exam, students and administrators said yesterday...
...although an unprecedented number of undergraduates--180 in all--have enrolled in Quantitative Reasoning A (QRA), a class for those who repeatedly fail Harvard's requirement, Barbara Peskins, the program's director, said there have been no complaints about overcrowding...
...days after it was spilled. But officials are less eager to admit that the state did almost nothing to make sure that the oil industry was prepared for a major accident. Over the past ten years, the staff of the state's oil- pollution-control management program was reduced from three people to one. Says Paul O'Brien, who ran the program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment commissioner Kelso was quick to brand the industry's previously filed oil-spill...
...research into artificial intelligence, expert systems solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example: when the oven gets very hot, turn the gas down a bit.) In 1980 F.L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen began marketing the first commercial fuzzy expert system: a computer program that controlled the fuel-intake rate and gas flow of a rotating kiln used to make cement...
Japanese researchers are pursuing more than 100 new applications for fuzzy logic. Nissan has patented fuzzy auto transmission and antiskid braking , systems. Yamaichi Securities has introduced a fuzzy stock-market investment program for signaling shifts in market sentiment. Canon is working on a fuzzy auto-focus camera. Matsushita has delivered a fuzzy automobile-traffic controller, and is about to unveil a fuzzy shower system that adjusts to changes in water temperature to prevent morning scaldings. And in the strongest endorsement of the technology to date, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry opened the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research...