Word: successful
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...also said that the lab's continued use and success was important for Harvard's scientific research...
That said, don't sell computers short. What's important about Deep Blue's success is what it tells us about the nature of computer science. We like to think of it as a fast-moving field. In fact, it is plodding but not easily discouraged. In the 1950s, many scientists decided that chess playing was an area in which computers could make rapid headway. Some predicted the imminent coming of a world-champion computer. But the problem turned out to be much harder than they imagined, as did many other problems in artificial intelligence. Outsiders tended to write...
...advanced mantle-cell lymphoma. Doctors told him the average life expectancy for the disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended for this type of cancer: a bone-marrow transplant...
...press conference. "Coaches who say they are going to stay and then leave are not liars," said Pitino. "They're saying what's in their hearts at the time." Pitino had maintained he was staying put as late as two weeks ago, when he was promoting his motivational book, Success Is a Choice. The Celtics became his choice after he talked with team consultant Larry Bird and former team executive Dave Gavitt, who spoke highly of Gaston. Joanne Pitino, the coach's wife and the mother of their five children, also gave the move her blessing. The money, Pitino said...
...endearing star of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1993 movie, Little Buddha, Raju Lal was a shoeshine boy when he was plucked from the slums of Katmandu and ushered into the realm of movie acting. Now his worldly success has faded (especially the money), and Raju is trolling for work in the fly-blown lanes of the Pahargunj slum of New Delhi. He earned $15,000 from the film, but he comes from a family of 11, and he claims his former agent kept part of the cash. Unable to read or write, the onetime child star does not want to return...