Alcoholism 1971

1971 , Volume , Issue Feb-1971

This impressive or CAÃ, system makes impressive contributions to the state of the art of CAI. It's a combination of field-proven hardware, a standard computer language, and well tested curricula. The first curriculum is an elementary mathematics drill and practice program. THAT A NEW PRODUCT SHOULD contribute substantially to the state of the art has long been a philosophical tenet at Hewlett-P...

Alcoholism – the Worst Addiction

Introduction: The most common substance of abuse/dependence in patients presenting for treatment in western countries is alcohol. Ethyl alcohol or ethanol which is also called medicinal alcohol is used as an official drug compendium. It is also administered as an antidote in methanol poisoning. However, regular consumption of high amounts of alcoholic drinks induces dependence and addiction lea...

Sloman 1971

This paper echoes, from a philosophical standpoint, the claim of McCarthy and Hayes that Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence have important relations. Philosophical problems about the use of 'intuition' in reasoning are related, via a concept of analogical representation, to problems in the simulation of perception, problem-solving and the generation of useful sets of possibilities in consid...

Dialog 1971

The Years 1953-1971

With the introduction and widespread use of antibiotics, there was a flareup of the old problem of the clinician's view of the microbial agent as the sole cause of an infection, versus the epidemiologist's perspective which recognized the heterogeneous nature of causes, with the host and the environment playing important roles as etiologic determinants. By 1953, the sulfonamide drugs had been i...