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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...
...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...
Agee has frequently promoted young people more on the basis of their future promise than on their past performance. Last year, for example, he appointed Bernard B. Winograd, 28, corporate treasurer. A determined Agee told TIME: "Our policy is, and will continue to be, to promote the most qualifed people." His further success at Bendix, however, may depend on whether he can outlast the water-cooler gossipers...
...Carter-controlled Winograd Commission, charged with revamping the presidential nominating process, adopted the rule unanimously. It is ironic that rank outsider Jimmy Carter, who used the 1976 rule to claw his way from obscurity to the presidency, supported the changes from early on. "They (the White House) wanted to make sure that no outsiders will do to Jimmy Carter in 1980 what Jimmy Carter did to everyone else in 1976," said one commission member...