Word: topicalism
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...said Margaret Dysom of Historical Massachusetts Inc., "it was certainly a topic for discussion...
While last night's meeting had only nine attendees, the group will split into committees, each concentrating on a different topic area. The committees will write about that area to help compile the group's information base, and try to get experts in the field involved with the planned symposium...
...computer has passed an open-ended free-topic Turing test, but I say that we are being too harsh. Just as children progress through the various stages of pre-consciousness to full self-awareness in their toddlerhood, so too computers must slowly approach their sentience. Thus I propose an adjunct to the Turing Test, something that I will immodestly christen the "Greenleaf Test." If a computer can generate sentences that are indistinguishable from political campaign rhetoric, it has passed the Greenleaf test. In other words, if a computer can eventually be indistinguishable from presidential candidates, it has taken its first...
Fineberg, formerly the dean of the School of Public Health, co-chaired a committee of health policy experts and academics that released a report on the topic last month, and he attended briefings in Washington to explain...
Miles Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House; 405 pages; $24.95) is the fleshed-out version of an article Harvey published in Outside magazine in June 1997. His topic then was a man named Gilbert Bland who had made a career in crime out of visiting major U.S. libraries and cutting maps out of valuable old books in order to sell these stolen treasures to unscrupulous collectors. Harvey's topic now has expanded to include accounts of how he researched and wrote both the original magazine piece and the subsequent book...