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OIRE director Dean K. Whitla said it would be "very helpful in getting a sense of various undergraduate activities, education and extracurriculars...
Using a computer, Rivlin created "a microsimulation model" of the population to examine the cost and effects of various types of health financing plans until the year 2020 for people of means. She says her model took into account such personal characteristics as income, assets, pension rates and disabilities...
Because the student group was not recognized by the University, many of its proposals became trapped in the workings of the various schools' bureacracies...
While the council has made considerable attempts to start various service projects, so far these initiatives have failed. Last year a representative of Phillips Brooks House, the community service organization, visited a meeting of the council and persuaded the group that they would only be duplicating PBH's efforts, so the council is now trying to form a graduate chapter of the public service organization...
Others, however, are already thinking beyond existing technologies. Johan de Kleer, a respected knowledge-system designer at Xerox, envisions an all- purpose electrical diagnostician that would have specific knowledge, such as the various laws that govern electrical flow and conductivity. But it would also have the common sense to decide whether it was faced with a broken VCR or a broken computer. To build this system, de Kleer has spent ten years codifying what he calls "qualitative" calculus that will provide the language to build "common-sense physics." The problem with common sense is that it requires the computer...