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...human being, nor did it have any idea what a human is. In fact, it was perfectly capable of trying to prescribe penicillin to fix a broken window. All it could do was rigidly test the applicability of various rules to pieces of data. This led critics like Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor of computer science at M.I.T., to dismiss expert systems like Mycin as "Potemkin villages. You move a little to the left, and you see it's all a facade...
...While Weizenbaum and other critics insisted on measuring Mycin against human intelligence and knowledge, others looked at the system and saw a computer- handling expertise that had previously resisted automation. No one, however, was going to build expert systems if they took several years to construct. Solution: create a Mycin without medical knowledge -- in effect, construct an empty shell into which programmers could pour all kinds of different expertise. In 1977 a team of Stanford researchers under Feigenbaum dubbed the new shell Emycin (for Empty Mycin) and used it to build several more expert systems. Emycin spurred a number...
...Board of Trustees for the Endowment includes Katz, Correa, Congressman Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), MIT '65, Congressman Howard Wolpe (D-Mich.), Urban Studies and Planning Professor Mel King, Political Science Professor Willard Johnson, Electrical Engineering Professor John Weizenbaum, Professor in the Sloan School of Management John Parsons, Gretchen Kalonji, MIT '80, and Dr. Marc Miller...
...piecework comes into play when employers set quotas that they want workers to meet under the new monitoring systems. Labor leaders contend that the working speeds are often set according to how fast the equipment can go, rather than what pace is comfortable for an average employee. Says Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science at M.I.T.: "There is a widespread notion among employers that it is bad ever to let the computer wait -- ever to let it sit idle. We should realize that a few seconds aren't going to matter and say, 'Let's be human about this...
...Weizenbaum's basic objection to the computer enthusiasts is that they have no sense of limits. Says...