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...artificial intelligence” calls up images of little green men or a painfully long Steven Spielberg movie. For David C. Parkes, Loeb associate professor of the natural sciences and associate professor of computer science, artificial intelligence has more to do with developing creative solutions to real-world problems than with outer space...
...actual practice, this means that Parkes and his research group try to figure out ways to simulate real-world situations, such as matching the appropriate advertisements to people who are typing search terms into Google in an attempt to better match supply and demand...
...That was back in 1995-1996 and then e-commerce exploded and then all of a sudden there were all these real-world applications,” Parkes says. “All of a sudden you had the need for the optimization that we perform in computer science...
...This is false. Obama has the real-world experience and commitment to practical policymaking to catapult his growing campaign to a successful presidency. Far more importantly, however, our preoccupation with these questions has distracted us from the bigger and less tangible crisis that we face today: as the Bush administration continues its seventh year and the Iraq war its fourth, the country has lost faith in its government. Increasingly, Americans feel that real power rests not with the citizens but with the rich and well-connected. We live in an age when Jack Abramoff can buy influence on Capitol Hill...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday approved legislation to replace the Core with a new general education curriculum emphasizing the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.In a 168-to-14 vote at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty, professors concluded a four-year-long debate over the centerpiece of the curricular review, the College’s first in three decades. After six meetings in as many weeks, professors expressed happiness and relief that the legislation’s passage—a stated goal of FAS administrators for this year—had been achieved.Under...