Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever to make a machine that will speak, understand or translate human language, solve mathematical problems with imagination, practice a profession or direct an organization, either we must reduce these activities to a science so exact that we can tell a machine precisely how to go about doing them or we must develop a machine that can do things without being told precisely how," Friedberg stated...
Assignment Southeast Asia: NBC spent three months and $125,000 shooting a color documentary on the seven-nation region that arcs from Laos to Indonesia, then let the film gather dust for a year. Last week viewers could see the results-and understand why nobody bothered to rush the go-minute show to the screen. Southeast Asia offered some striking individual shots, such as a closeup of an opium smoker, and picturesque views of Thai boxers, golden Burmese temples and the stone splendor of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. But in trying to do too much-a travelogue plus...
...brain around the wound subsided. At the end of two weeks he could grunt a response to questions, and he was using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order and carry it out. The doctors decided to move Congrave from St. Luke's Hospital to Craig Colony, a nearby rehabilitation center. There a battery of therapists went to work on him, trying to retrain him, starting almost at the infant level, in speech, feeding and self...
There were specific disappointments. French nationalists complained that the NATO leaders had not given France the ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending...
...through what they had said." Among the authors' other recommendations: ¶Though the teacher must stick around in case he is needed, he "may interfere with group dynamics if he attempts to communicate opinions, attitudes, ideas and so on." ¶ "Group dynamics is furthered when students know and understand one another. Considerable time can be profitably used in introducing and discussing individual backgrounds in getting acquainted...