Word: theoretician
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...public policy. The students' course evaluations bear the memory of that time, listing the mathematical and statistical skills needed for taking each course. That was a period when game theory was hot, and such games can all be played in the mind. "Field experience" does not make one a theoretician...
What saved the fledgling industry was the discovery that applied artificial intelligence could produce concrete results when properly used. In 1978 the Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp. joined forces with AI Theoretician John McDermott of Carnegie Mellon University to develop XCon (for Expert Configurator), a system to assist salesmen in choosing parts for DEC computer systems from among tens of thousands of alternatives. XCon went on line in 1981, and for several years it was the only expert system in commercial use that companies could employ to gauge the worth of their technology. Today XCon configures almost every Digital computer...
...Bork in my view represents the last best hope of that movement, it's instrument and theoretician," Glassor said...
...cossack school generally aligns itself with Izvestia's West Coast theory of American baseball. In this opinion, the first American team was not the Cincinnati Reds but the Los Angeles Engels, named for the wealthy crony who liked to toss the lapta around with Karl Marx, the first great theoretician of the game and the main reason why so many modern lapta stars have been nicknamed Lefty. Marx and Engels introduced the dialectical theory of lapta: the pitchers are always ahead of the hitters, and vice versa. Marx's classic one-liner about lapta, "Nice right-wing deviationists finish last...
This was the kind of life Wilson led, not as a literary theoretician or fashion setter but rather as a kind of foreign correspondent in the world of art and ideas. Oddly enough, the sections on both the Civil War and Israel in The Fifties are rather skimpy, almost as though Wilson were too busy to keep up with himself in his journals. But there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when...