Word: tech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Court intervention became necessary when Frank J. Frisoli, fiery superintendent of Cambridge schools refused to yield the Superintendent's offices at Rindge Tech to his successor. Alforence Cheatham...
Frisoli was ousted from the $38,000 a year post in a narrow vote by the School Committee last January. However, when Cheatham arrived at the Rindge Tech offices September 1. Frisoli refused to vacate, saying. "I am still the Superintendent here." Cheatham former district superintendent from Chicago's West Side, was selected in June by the majority members of the School Committee to replace Frisoli...
...clash between two different styles. The Northwestern program, named Chess 3.5, looked ahead 4 ply at most. However, its evaluation function was very sophisticated, and it assessed positions on the basis of material, pawn structure, control of the center, and safety of the king. The other program, Tech, could look ahead up to 13 ply. It was able to evaluate so many positions because the only criterion was material superiority, and it was not bogged down by other positional considerations. The programs battled to an even endgame, when Tech, perceiving material equality, became too complacent and happily made harmless moves...
James Gillogly, programmer of Tech and a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon, regarded the game as a contest between brute force and intelligence. His program is extremely simple and was developed in about six months, which is relatively quick. Gillogly believes that the pure technological approach to chess programming, which involves few strategic ideas, can serve "as a baseline against which more sophisticated programs can be compared, thereby determining whether the development of a complex program is worth the effort...
...newly bloodied trunks to another fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to his girl's former lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here, and Actress Tyrell's grandstand histrionics turn a surefire part into a Raggedy Ann caricature...