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- 1741: Can Computers Think? The Case For and Against Artificial Intelligence
- ... over Batman is among pre-pubescent boys. On the one hand are the scientists who say, as philosopher John Searle does, that “Programs are all syntax and no semantics.” (Discover, 106) Put another way, a computer can actually achieve thought because it “merely follows rules that tell it how to shift symbols without ever understanding the meaning of those symbols.” (Discover, 106) On the other side of the debate are the ... reigning chess champion of the world, competing in a six game chess match against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer with 32 microprocessors. Kasparov eventually won (4-2), but it raised the legitimate question, if a computer can beat the chess champion of the world at his own game (a game thought of as the ultimate thinking man's game), is there any question of AI's legitimacy? Indeed, even Kasparov said ... intuitively recognizes, based on prior experience, as contributing to the goals of the position.” Seeking to go beyond the brute force of Deep Blue in separate projects, are M.I.T. professor Rodney Brooks and computer scientist Douglas Lenat. The desire to conquer AI are where the similarities between the two end. Brooks is working on an AI being nicknamed Cog. Cog has cameras for eyes, eight 32-bit microprocessors ...
- 1742: Brief History Of Databases
- Brief History Of Databases In the 1960's, the use of main frame computers became widespread in many companies. To access vast amounts of stored information, these companies started to use computer programs like COBOL and FORTRAN. Data accessibility and data sharing soon became an important feature because of the large amount of information recquired by different departments within certain companies. With this system, each application owns ... file processing was uncontrolled redundancy, inconsistent data, inflexibility, poor enforcement of standards, and low programmer maintenance. In 1964, MIS (Management Information Systems) was introduced. This would prove to be very influential towards future designs of computer systems and the methods they will use in manipulating data. In 1966, Philip Kotler had the first description of how managers could benefit from the powerful capabilities of the electronic computer as a management tool. In 1969, Berson developed a marketing information system for marketing research. In 1970, the Montgomery urban model was developed stressing the quantitative aspect of management by highlighting a data bank, ...
- 1743: Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
- ... the need to cover the modeling deficiencies of their predecessors, that is the relational database management systems. They were intended to be used by applications that have to handle big and complex data such as Computer Aided Engineering, Computer Aided Design, and Office Information Systems. The area of the OODBMSs is characterized by three things. First, it lacks a common data model. There is no common data model although many proposals can be found ... W. Paton. Object-Oriented Databases: A Semantic Data Model Approach. Prentice-Hall, 1992. Hughes, J.G. Object-Oriented Databases. Prentice-Hall, 1991. Kemper, A. and G. Moerkotte. Object-Oriented Database Management: Applications in Engineering and Computer Science. Prentice-Hall, 1994. Kim, W. Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases. MIT Press, 1990. Loomis, M.E.S. Object Databases: The Essentials. Addison-Wesley, 1995. Rao, B.R. Object-Oriented Databases: Technology, Applications, and ...
- 1744: People and Machines
- ... longer the people have worked on a single machine, the more they become adept in the use of the machine. When the time comes for a more advanced machine to be installed, such as a computer, the worker may not be able to cope with the massive change. The computer is an example of a new machine that has created new jobs while driving out workers who were either unwilling or unable to deal with the new technology. Computers have drastically changed many of the ... how to use a steam engine? Airplane pilots had to learn how to fly with jet engines instead of propellers. Navigation, engine control, oil pressure, and various other components of the vehicle rely on the computer. Workers can become so mechanical in their job process that they could do it with their eyes closed, and have actually become a machine themselves. As technology increases at a rapid pace, workers will ...
- 1745: What is A Robot
- ... gets a new assignment, it will need new instructions, but its basic structure will not change (except maybe a new mechanical hand). By "multifunctional" they mean a robot is the mechanical counter part of a computer that can handle various problems without any major hardware modifications. The only thing that changes when a robot is reassigned is its program of instructions. In modern robots, programmable microprocessors control all the robot's ... do. The microprocessor sends signals to joint boards, which in turn, send signals to a motor. Then the motor moves the joint the way the program wants it to. Robots can be programmed by a computer. An operator enters the work movements into a computer which tells the robot what to do. Robots can also be "taught" what to do by having its arm moved. The operator moves the robot's arm with his own arm through all the ...
- 1746: Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
- ... the need to cover the modeling deficiencies of their predecessors, that is the relational database management systems. They were intended to be used by applications that have to handle big and complex data such as Computer Aided Engineering, Computer Aided Design, and Office Information Systems. The area of the OODBMSs is characterized by three things. First, it lacks a common data model. There is no common data model although many proposals can be found ... W. Paton. Object-Oriented Databases: A Semantic Data Model Approach. Prentice-Hall, 1992. Hughes, J.G. Object-Oriented Databases. Prentice-Hall, 1991. Kemper, A. and G. Moerkotte. Object-Oriented Database Management: Applications in Engineering and Computer Science. Prentice-Hall, 1994. Kim, W. Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases. MIT Press, 1990. Loomis, M.E.S. Object Databases: The Essentials. Addison-Wesley, 1995. Rao, B.R. Object-Oriented Databases: Technology, Applications, and ...
- 1747: ITT Trip Scheduling
- ... for a Decision Support System (DSS) that will assist ITT in creating schedules for their tours. This system will also track customer surveys and hold data about all of ITTs trips. They already have some computer systems, a spread sheet program and a data base management system (DBMS) which can all be used to build a small DSS. Using the DBMS and the spread sheet software I have designed a system ... support models to aid in creating schedules. This system will provide ITT with the information they need to make decisions about scheduling their trips as well as allow them to create the schedules directly from computer models. I will discuss the models in the next paragraph. The system would not draw conclusions, but simply show the pros and cons to certain choices. The MIS portion of the system will simply provide ... transportation. Another model could also determine if the trip would be able satisfy the customers given the past customer inputs. Finally after determining whether each trip is worth offering the ITT employees could use the computer to generate a new schedule. Now that we know what the system should do we can turn our attention to the design of the system. In the design phase of DSS development the new ...
- 1748: To Kill A Mocking Bird: Tom Robinson's Trial
- ... viewed as an outsider. Although she is the prosecution in the case, Mayella never set out to intentionally hurt Tom. She was lonely and only wanted affection from Tom, this being thought of as a crime at the time. Mayella did not commit a crime, but in fact broke a moral code of society. Mayella considering tempting a Black man showed that her view on the Negroes was not entirely the same as the rest of Maycomb. However Mayella had ... until enough money has been collected The reason why she is collecting money when she has the ability to work and earn her own money is because as her husband was being charged for a crime like that, no one would employ Helen. Even Atticus the character intended to have exceptional principles and morals reflects the influences of being raised in the midst of southern traditions. When Calpurnia rides with ...
- 1749: Savage Inequalities: Conditions of Poor Schools
- ... horrifying conditions in these schools. He spends a chapter on each area, and provides a description of the city and a historical basis for the impoverished state of its school. These schools, usually in high crime areas, lack the most basic needs. Kozol creates a scene of rooms without heat, few supplies or text, labs with no equipment, sewer backups, and toxic fumes. Schools from New York to California where not ... out of a future by unequipped, understaffed and under funded schools in the United State’s inner cities and less affluent suburbs. The majority of these children are non-white, and living amongst poverty and crime. Kozol argues about the unfair standards we expect these underprivileged children to rise to. Children in these poor areas are being compared to children in affluent areas where the quality of their education is much ... s world if they are not given the same opportunities as affluent schools give their children. Kozol believes that by depriving our poorer children of their basic needs we are forcing them into lives of crime, poverty and a never-ending cycle of inequalities in education. Kozol stresses that these students must be taught that “savage inequalities” do not have to exist between them and students in more affluent schools, ...
- 1750: Things Fall Apart: Roles, Responsibilities, and Treatment of Women
- ... and never allowed to return. If the death was an accident, as it was in this case, then one was still banned but allowed to return in seven years because it was considered a female crime. Killing a clansman was "a crime of two kinds, male and female Okonkwo had committed the female because it had been inadvertent." The Ibo, expected women to make mistakes, therefore an inadvertent death was called a female crime. Chinua Achebe gave the women in his novel, Things Fall Apart, roles similar to those of women, throughout the world at that time but most importantly similar to women in Pre-Colonial Nigeria, where ...
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