Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, the director said, some-what rare books may require hours of cross referencing to determine a price. Wheeler, employed at Harvard for 15 years, said that only a true "book person" could fill his job, which he said requires subtle and somewhat obscure knowledge...
...Being a basement, it's taken somewhat of a time period for the carpeting to dry out," he said...
...autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, the author somewhat sourly recalls teaching at Harvard in the 1870s. What seemed to perplex Adams was the naive faith of his students that their education somehow had a purpose and a utility. When he finally asked an undergraduate what he intended to get out of his studies, Adams was startled by the answer: "The degree of Harvard College is worth money to me in Chicago...
...tall men, George Bush (6 ft. 2 in.) might have a membership value of 0.7, while Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7 ft. 2 in.) might have a 0.99. Zadeh and his students went on to elaborate a full fuzzy mathematics, devising precise rules for combining vague expressions like "somewhat fast," "very hot" and "usually wrong...
Fuzzy logic began to find applications in industry in the early '70s, when it was teamed with another form of advanced computer science called the expert system. A product of research into artificial intelligence, expert systems solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example: when the oven gets very hot, turn the gas down a bit.) In 1980 F.L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen began marketing the first commercial fuzzy expert system: a computer program that controlled the fuel-intake rate and gas flow of a rotating kiln used to make cement...