Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their work has spawned a new phase of the great computer revolution that has been going on for the past 40 years or so. Whereas the early use of computers revolutionized information handling, late developments promise to better manage raw computer power and the increasing complexity of modern information technology. For the first time in history, these systems allow computers to deal with ambiguity and questions of judgment that are too subtle for conventional data processing, however powerful. After years of false starts and overblown promises, the new systems, called expert or knowledge-processing systems, have exploded onto the commercial...
Two years ago IBM's Schorr proclaimed the "second wave" of the information revolution. "While the first wave automated data processing," he said, "the second wave will automate decision making." IBM now considers itself the world leader in second-wave technology and is either using or developing expert systems throughout...
The 1800 former members of President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard who have been in prison since the Sandinista revolution of July 1979 will be released after a final truce is worked out. Under Somoza, the army was called the National Guard.
The events awkwardly coincided with an official visit last week by Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xuequian to Washington, where human rights violations in Tibet were already on the agenda. Wu told Secretary of State George Shultz that China had done much to make amends for damage suffered by Tibetans during...
The committee also discussed restricted enrollments in Core courses. Several spring courses, including Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," held lotteries to limit their size. Flynn said the council study turned up several complaints about such lotteries.