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...courtroom closed to the press and the public, tensions ran high. Juditha Brown, Nicole's mother, and Denise Brown, Nicole's sister, also attended every day, and the proximity of the families led to a few near blowups. At one point Simpson's sister Shirley Baker began playing tic-tac-toe on a note pad during testimony. Juditha turned to the Brown family lawyer Natasha Roit and said, "And this is the woman who will be caring for the children...
Learning BASIC language from a manual with his pal Paul Allen, Trey produced two programs in the eighth grade: one that converted a number in one mathematical base to a different base, and another (easier to explain) that played tic-tac-toe. Later, having read about Napoleon's military strategies, he devised a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination...
That isn't what AI set out to achieve 40 years ago. But artificial intelligence tends to be a moving target; once a computer can do something--like play tic-tac-toe or even chess--that behavior no longer seems to require much thought. If anything unites AI's increasingly diverse strategies for building machines that think, however, it's that they all require us to stretch our notions of what human thought really is. "We need to be prepared," warns Ray, "for an intelligence that is very different from...
...Brad Konik fed freshman Craig MacDonald down to the right of the goal, MacDonald then crossed the puck to Bent, who was waiting to Konte's left, and Bent blasted it home. Even John Madden couldn't diagram it any better than that one--a sort of a tic-tac-goal...
...wrote the company's first product, Microsoft Basic) but also meets regularly with the ceos of all the major hardware and software firms. This enables him to spot trends and anticipate developments as clearly as anyone in the industry. It is as if he were playing three-dimensional tic-tac-toe in a world where everyone else is playing...