Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...model of the U.S. machine arrived in Houston last week for training purposes. The 800-lb. vehicle resembles a terrestrial dune buggy, and is scheduled to carry two Apollo 15 astronauts on a short test spin across the lunar surface next summer...
Fortunately there are men and women who are too busy studying the brain to bother with sorting out such semantic eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive...
They say you can't learn anything from it except not to do it that way, but that Laos has been very successful, and that that ought to be the kind of model that we ought to follow...
THIS YEAR'S election of student directors seems to belie such a hope. Coming in the trail of the smallest rebate in the Society's history- three per cent for cash purchases and one per cent for charges- the elections were a model of bureaucratic inefficiency...
...English archaeologist Sir Charles Newton more than a century ago. Why had it not been identified before? Experts who examined the head in the 19th century did think that it might be from a figure of Aphrodite, but not from Praxiteles' work, which was used as a model by so many ancient sculptors that 52 copies are still in existence. Yet the head was so battered that a firm identification seemed impossible, and it was eventually relegated to the museum's dark, dusty storerooms during a 1934 housecleaning...