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RODNEY BROOKS GUSHES LIKE A first-time parent about the things his baby can do. "It sits there waving its arm around, watching its arm, reaching for things," he says. These are pretty standard tricks for newborn humans, of course, but then Brooks' "baby" (nicknamed Cog) isn't exactly human...
Douglas Lenat has similar hopes for his artificially intelligent brainchild--a sprawling, data-rich computer program called CYC (as in encyclopedic). But where Brooks expects Cog to teach itself about the world, Lenat is leaving nothing to chance. For more than a decade, his CYC development team in Austin, Texas...
"It's a pretty good idea," said John R. Brooks '97, who is a Crimson editor. "Not a whole lot of people use the JCR. This will probably turn it into a real dorm hangout."
When the student body rallied for the autonomy of Phillips Brooks House, the dean acted practically by keeping to his schedule rather than defend his appointment of Judith Kidd as Public Service czar to the protesters outside of his University Hall offices. And when, more recently, an attempted rape on...
March madness is upon us once more. As every armchair prognosticator tries desperately to come up with picks for the office pool, my roommate Brooks Morrin and I are here to end all of the speculation and let you in on what the most exciting three weeks in sports will...