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...Fahrenkopf upstairs). It will be a political rehabilitation of sorts. Malek, who worked for H.R. Haldeman, was censured by the Senate Watergate Committee for using federal resources to get Nixon re-elected and for ordering the FBI to conduct an investigation of former CBS Correspondent and Nixon Critic Daniel Schorr...
Services Committee member Daniel Schorr '91agreed with Mandery, saying, "I just think thatthe turnout is going to be so low--that it's a bigissue...
...latecomer to the second wave. It was not until 1984 that Schorr, a respected computer designer within the company, was assigned to take corporate responsibility for artificial-intelligence projects. "Three years ago it became apparent that this technology had gone past the research phase and had become commercial," he recalls. "IBM decided we could make money in it, and that we should be the world leader." Cautiously at first, IBM began to search for opportunities to apply expert systems internally -- for "the low-hanging fruit," as Schorr puts it today...
After the company's first shot -- the DEFT system to diagnose troubles in IBM's giant disk drives -- proved a bull's-eye, IBM Chairman John Akers became an enthusiast. He gave Schorr the green light to promote expert systems throughout the company. IBM now has 50 knowledge systems up and running, and Schorr expects that number to double each year for the next few years...
...Schorr claims, is the world leader in applied artificial intelligence, Du Pont is running close behind. Ed Mahler, the Delaware multinational's program director for artificial intelligence, says the company currently has 200 knowledge systems in use and expects to have 2,000 systems running by 1990. The reason for the explosion, according to Mahler: knowledge- processing technology is now affordable, and even the most sophisticated systems are available on personal computers...