Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smitten. So I looked up Julia's creator, Michael Mauldin, who told me that he built the "chatterbot" in 1990 to reside in the virtual world of TinyMUD, an early experiment in online community building in the pre-Web Internet. Mauldin's idea was to use the all-text environment of the MUD to stage a so-called Turing Test--that is, he wanted to build a piece of software that could trick humans into thinking they were communicating with one of their own. It worked. "One guy hit on Julia for 13 days," recalls Mauldin, noting that although...
...unique sense of humor remain a staple part of American life in many homes. His latest novel, Wobegon Boy, follows in Keillor's beloved tradition of nostalgic Midwestern humor that tries to pine for the days of long ago, without becoming too preachy. The novel is a virtual gallery of detailed portraits on how modern life can be disconcerting, and even shocking, to the good old people of Lake Wobegon...
Life for those who aren't incarcerated isn't as bleak, but these dissidents are scarcely more effective in promoting change than are their jailed counterparts. For example, Chen Ziming and Zhai Weimin, two leaders of the 1989 protests, are under virtual house arrest, and Chen is reportedly in poor health...
Yale's losing streak continued to three straight on October 25. The game was a virtual repeat of the previous week's defeat by Dartmouth...
...Secretary William Cohen, to kill "every man, woman and child on the face of the planet." And while that information raises the stakes, Iraq is raising the heat: Its government newspaper al-Jumhouriya said Wednesday, "Iraq will not tolerate any more farces by inspection teams," adding they had become "virtual criminal courts...