Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggestive and important, because no human being can play chess without thinking. And no human could beat the chess champion of the world, even in a single game, without bringing significant intelligence to bear. Shouldn't we conclude that Deep Blue must be a thinking computer, and a smart one at that, maybe brilliant? Maybe a genius? Aren't we forced to conclude that Deep Blue must have a mind? That henceforth Homo sapiens will be defined as "one type of thinking thing...
...beautiful and amazing technological achievement. It is an intellectual milestone, and its chief meaning is this: that human beings are champion machine builders. All sorts of activities that we thought could be done only by minds can in fact be done by machines too, if the machine builders are smart enough. Deep Blue underscores the same lesson about human thought we learned a couple of generations ago from mechanical calculators. You can't do arithmetic without using your mind, but when a calculator does arithmetic, we don't conclude that it has a mind. We conclude that arithmetic...
Because if your brain is just a machine, it's a machine that can do one trick that computers have no hope of doing. A trick that is intrinsic to the machinery, that can't be duplicated onto some other machine, stored on a disc, reworked by smart programmers or appropriated by Microsoft. Because of the stuff it is made of, or the way its parts are arranged, the brain is a machine that is capable of creating an "I." Brains can summon mental worlds into being, and computers...
LAURA INGERSOLL, 45 The no-nonsense head of the special task force of roughly a dozen lawyers is a diplomat's daughter who grew up in Europe and South America. Some colleagues compare her to the rather prim Diane on Cheers. They also call her tenacious, smart and ethical. Though she has little experience doing major trials, she's handled corruption cases involving CIA employees. Just last year she extracted guilty pleas from four Agriculture Department employees who rounded up contributions from colleagues and subordinates for a pro-Clinton...
...memorable character in the entire show. With a voice that rings with power and emotion few of the other actors are able to equal, Figueroa single-handedly creates the soul of the performance, only to be sorely missed after her death at the barricades. She deftly combines a street-smart savvy with the brokenheartedness of a woman in love, and becomes the most pitiable and beloved character to grace Les Miserables...