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Language as a Litmus Test for AI
… in human evolution, has long been considered a hallmark of human intelligence, and when Barbara Grosz started … working on problems in artificial intelligence (AI) in the 1970s, it was the litmus test for defining machine … The idea that language could be used as a kind of Occam’s razor for identifying intelligent computers dates …
Issue: January-February 2019
Life As Improvisation: The Baccalaureate Service
… urged graduating seniors to make career choices for love rather than money; she began this year’s address by noting … world has changed that for you.” Her advice for the class of 2009: view the uncertain climate not as reason for … not seem like a gift now,” she said, “but it is. Instead of waking up when you are 45 suddenly wondering what your …
National Academy of Sciences Elects Harvard Members
… Recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research,” the National Academy of Sciences on April 29 announced the election of 84 new members, 11 of them from Harvard’s faculties of …
The Context: Daniel Lieberman on Food Addiction
… Pick any popular subject in the news and it’s likely Harvard Magazine has covered it. With access to so many leading scholars, we’re often able to delve into topics in health, science, law, and … they reach the mainstream. This is the first post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
The Senior Seniors
… Photograph by Jim Harrison George Barner The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were Marjorie (Prince) Thomas ’42, 92, of Bedford, Massachusetts (accompanied by her husband, …
Issue: July-August 2011
The Oldest Ever?
… Walter Seward, LL.B. ’24, turned 109 in October, making him the oldest living—and longest lived—Harvard alumnus known. … If I didn’t exercise, I know I’d become something made of plastic.” Seward, who lives in his own home in West Orange, New Jersey, last visited the law school on August 23, 2004—which Dean Elena Kagan …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Senior Marshals
… Photograph by Stu Rosner The senior marshals , looking ahead to Commencement 2003, … from top left) first marshal Krishnan Subrahmanian , of Pforzheimer House and Woodbury, Minnesota; second marshal Laurence Patrick Noonan , of Quincy House and North Easton, Massachusetts; Deanna …
Issue: May-June 2003
Science and Politics and Stem Cells
… Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications … science, at least in the United States. "I'm a little surprised that the NIH, which is a scientific organization, said …
Harvard Reports on Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein Gifts
… President Lawrence S. Bacow reported to the community this afternoon that the gifts to Harvard from … imprisoned last August, was facing numerous further charges of sexual assault. But as a result of further investigation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
Reunion on the Road
… Earlier this year, Earl and Paula Bracker of Cambridge marked their seventieth birthdays, organized a three-generation … people—to Tanzania for a reunion. Courtesy of the Bracker family The Brackers took 26 people — …
Issue: November-December 2004
A Conservative Counterrevolution
… When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the American states … fell precipitously. Yet despite the depression, most of the 13 states hiked taxes to pay down their war debts and cover their share of the nation’s—and the new taxes were much higher than …
Issue: January-February 2017
From Hull House to the White House
… On factions, elections, and productive disagreement in the building of American community As the first generation of Puritans … points of view. From that awareness can—not must, but can—arise a degree of toleration that makes differ-ences …
Inclusive Design, Incisive Art
… a street map representing math, dreams, and a spreadsheet of the economic and social resources that go into the art she … boulevards demarcating “Patriarchy,” “Space,” and “Concept of Reality,” with tiny side streets labeled “Climate …
Issue: November-December 2023
Who Teaches?
… Tucked within the November Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) faculty … 2009, and then stopped growing. The non-ladder census has risen 44 percent since 2003. There are now nearly half as …
Issue: March-April 2023
Connecting to the River Parklands
… Meanwhile, back in Cambridge , students of Bucksbaum professor in urban design Joan Busquets have transformed their studio class at the Graduate School of Design into a …
Issue: March-April 2005