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...TIME named Winston Churchill "Man of the Half-Century," saying "he launched the lifeboats" that saved liberty. You cited Churchill's unmatched career: 50 years of international prominence, the only person to hold high office in both World Wars, the only one to write of his experiences in language that will live as long as words are read. As the first person to proclaim publicly the Soviet threat, Churchill became the architect of the century's great triumph over it. The twin victories over two great evils are this century's dominating achievements. Great movements still in progress--civil rights...
Last Thursday, MIT Professors Boris Katz and Patrick Winston filed suit in Massachusetts District Court against the California-based Ask Jeeves, Inc. for patent infringement...
Both Katz and Winston are prominent researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence and natural language. Winston is the Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at MIT, and Katz is a principal research scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
Pedestrian lists of the "Century's Greatest" are all the rage these days, but yesterday we celebrated truly the greatest man of our century: November 30 was the birthday of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, born one hundred twenty-five years ago in 1874. A celebration on these pages might rightly emphasize Churchill's life in the last century if we want to appreciate fully and learn from his greatness in our century...
...WINSTON CHURCHILL was the century's best example of how individuals can shape history rather than being shaped by it. The force of his will and his words gave courage to his country and saved the West. Yet it was also Churchill who, after World War II, discerned the dangers to come from communist tyranny. Just as he defined the moral issues of the 1930s and 1940s, he defined the great moral challenge that would shape America's role in the world up to our own time. Totalitarianism was the greatest evil of the 20th century, and Churchill its most...