Word: winograd
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Winner of the race to print is Susan Brownmiller, whose novel Waverly Place (Grove; $18.95), published this week, was completed long before the verdict came in. In this fictive version of events leading to Lisa's death, Nussbaum (thinly masked as Judith Winograd) is programmed for catastrophe. Her childhood begins with abuse: "Whack. Where were you? Whack. Ma, I got lost. Whack. I told you . . . always to come straight home. Whack...
Pilots are not the only ones worrying about the reliability of sophisticated military expert systems. Terry Winograd, an AI pioneer turned critic who is now at Stanford, has formed a Palo Alto-based group called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility to oppose the use of second-wave systems in military applications. Winograd believes that isolating experts from the unforeseen consequences of their decisions is "perhaps the most ! subtle and dangerous consequence of the patchwork rationality of present expert systems." He is specifically concerned about the use of expert systems in President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars system...
...endorsement of former U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser and a bulging wallet, but still no ability to generate much emotional attachment. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's halfhearted quasi-endorsement is likely to hurt the Massachusetts Governor as much as help him. Says State Democratic Committee Member Morley Winograd: "It won't get him any white votes, in fact it could cost him white votes in the Detroit suburbs, and the black vote will go to Jesse...
...more than an informal review of their procedures. Democrats have gone through several thorough revisions. In the past 12 years, Democratic Party reform commissions have rewritten their delegate selection rules following each election--the McGovern-Fraser Commission met from 1969 to 1972, the Mikulski Commission in 1973 and the Winograd Commission in 1973 and the Winograd Commission from...
...judgment, weakening ties between the nominee and the party and between the party and its constituencies. Critics point to Democratic President Jimmy Carter's inability to deal with a Democratically controlled Congress as an example. To stem the decline of the participation of elected officials, the DNC adopted the Winograd Commission's recommendation to increase state delegations by 10 percent and reserve those spots for elected officials...