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Instead of programming a neural-network computer to make decisions, its maker trains it to recognize the patterns in any solution to a problem by repeatedly feeding examples to the machine. The computer responds to each example by randomly activating its circuits in a particular configuration. The trainer electronically reinforces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Brainpower in a Box | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

The provocative pose, however, immediately raised questions of both propriety and professionalism. "Coy, pretentious, self-conscious," sniffed Mademoiselle Editor in Chief Amy Levin Cooper. "It's about as appropriate as anchormen appearing in beefcake pictures," declared CBS News', Mike Wallace. Lamented Feminist Betty Friedan: "It reinforces the idea that to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Girls of Network News | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Kennedy and several other professors involved with the program are affiliated with the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) school of thought, which holds that the legal system reinforces prejudices inherent in the status quo. However, the program has no official connection with CLS and is open to "basically anyone," Kennedy said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School to Begin Project | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

Unlike Judith Hearne, High Tide is not whiny and overexplained. And under the direction of Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, Mrs. Soffel), the lead actresses have an honest naturalism that almost makes us forget the coincidences and arthritic manipulations of Laura Jones' script. But instead of calming our suspicions, Armstrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Chance for Lost Lives | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Once Biko dies, barely an hour into the film, Woods carries the narration; he plots his escape to any land that will publish his Biko biography. The police threaten his cute family with errant gunfire and toxic T shirts, and the viewer is meant to recoil from these domestic atrocities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Empire Strikes Out | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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