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Chess computers to
From Associated Press reports
- PITTSBURGH Researchers at
Carnegie Mellon University say they
have bad news for international chess
grandmaster Gary Kasparov
computers could overtake the best
' human players in just a few years.
sI'd say four years is a very
generous estimate, in fact," said
CMU computer scientist Hans
Berliner, the brains behind Hitech, a
computer that won its third straight
Pennsylvania State Championship
over the weekend in Lancaster.
; Hitech's five-game sweep at the
tournament raised its U.S. Chess
Federation ranking to 2,411, up about
. 400 points from the rating it achieved
after it began playing in 1985.
; Kasparov, the world champion,
ranks above 2,800. A beginner
typically rates about 1 ,200.
Hitech is winning about 80 percent
of its games and ranks among the top
150 players in the United States but
' has never beaten a grandmaster, the
federation's highest rank.
" Berliner and a changing team of
graduate students have worked since
Sodomy law
From Associated Press reports
DECATUR, Ga. A judge today
Ordered state officials to release a
carpenter who has been jailed for 18
months under the state's 156-year-old
sodomy law after he admitted having
oral sex with his wife.
DeKalb County Superior Judge
Robert Castellani ordered the state to
free James Moseley on his own
recognizance by 3 p.m. unless a
satisfactory reason for keeping him in
jail is found.
Moseley, 35, was convicted in
February 1988 on one charge of
sodomy and sentenced to five years
in prison after he testified that he
engaged in oral sex with Bette
Roberts, his common-law wife of
four years. The couple have since
divorced, and Ms. Roberts won
custody of their two children.
Castellani ruled that Moseley be
freed until it could be determined if
he should have a new trial or if his
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FRIDAY
2 p.m. University Career
Planning and Placement Services
will offer "Job Hunt 101," with
basic information on how to use the
UCPPS office for seniors and gradu
ate students in 210 Hanes Hall.
2:45 p.m. University Career
Planning and Placement Services
1985 to boost Hitech's speed and
ability.
Any person who can improve 100
points a year will probably become a
world champion very soon," Berliner
said Tuesday.
Getting up to 2,000 is not
something many players achieve."
Hitech isn't even the fastest or
most powerful chess computer. It
ranks second in the world, behind
another Carnegie Mellon creation,
Deep Thought, Berliner said.
"It's becoming fairly obvious that
Deep Thought, which is 20 times
faster than Hitech, already can play
with the best players in the country.
It's not going to take too much more
improvement," he said.
Many of the best human chess
players are turning down invitations
to match wits against machines in
tournament play, however. Four of the
players seeded above sixth-seeded
Hitech declined to play the computer
at the state championship. The fifth
person lost.
Participants in tournaments don't
have to play a computer if they don't
violater finally released
conviction should be overturned.
Moseley, of Clayton County, was
charged with two counts of rape, two
counts of aggravated oral sodomy and
two counts of aggravated anal
sodomy in connection with two
encounters with his wife. He was
acquitted of those charges, but a jury
found him guilty of sodomy because
of his admission on the witness stand.
Sodomy, even between a
consenting husband and wife, is a
felony in Georgia. Moseley is
believed to be the first man convicted
under the sodomy law for conduct
between marriage partners.
In today's hearing, Clive Stafford
Smith, an attorney for the American
Civil Liberties Union, argued that
state prosecutors should be required
to disqualify themselves from the
case if they had engaged in oral sex.
Castellani declined to order
prosecutors to reveal such
information.
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will hold "Job Hunt 102," a resume
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Items of Interest
The Graduate Student and
Professional Federation offers
information on the in-state tuition
application process. Check the bul
letin board outside. Suite C in the
Union for current details.
Alpha Kappa Psi, the first pro
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"When we were first being invited
to play, it was for fun. Nobody
expected it to win," Berliner said.
But he added, " Players are starting to
refuse to play because it's no longer
an easy touch."
The best human players rely on
experience, intuition and knowledge
of chess theory.
Computers play mathematically,
computing the consequences of
various moves. Hitech can consider
more than 175,000 board positions
per second before picking the best
one. Hitech also can recognize
patterns of moves.
Computer chess is advancing the
field of artificial intelligence, and
lessons learned could help humans
make complex judgments in other
areas of life, Berliner said.
"When they invented the steam
shovel, the people who dug ditches
also were very upset," he said. "But
look at what a great improvement that
turned out to be."
The judge gave Moseley's
attorneys until Tuesday to review
transcripts from the original trial and
to file additional motions in the case.
They were seeking a writ of habeas
corpus which, if granted, would void
Moseley's conviction and free him.
Failing that, he wants a new trial.
Steven E. Lister, Moseley's
original lawyer, testified today that he
advised Moseley not to appeal the
conviction because he believed an
appeal would delay a release from the
state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Smith argued that Lister's advice
effectively deprived Moseley of his
right to appeal.
Senior Assistant Attorney General
Mary Beth Westmoreland said the
state was not trying to interfere in
private marital relations but became
involved because of Ms. Roberts's
assertion that she did not consent to
the acts.
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LOS ANGELES Networks are
beginning the new TV season with a
new fact of life increasing sponsor
scrutiny of the shows on which their
ads appear.
The heads of the networks insist
advertisers or pressure groups will
not censor them, but they also say
they're looking more closely at shows
of questionable taste. The question is.
whose "taste" will prevail?
NBC Entertainment President
Brandon Tartikoff, whose network
vowed to air the critically acclaimed
but controversial TV movie about
abortion, "Roe vs. Wade," without
sponsorship, if it came to that, said he
was concerned about a possible trend
toward programming-by-boycott last
season.
"What you become concerned
about is sort of a new McCarthyism,"
he said. "What I was fearful of is,
today "The Sex Tapes,' tomorrow
xDearJohn."
Last season, sponsors balked at so
called "trash TV" fare, but also at
"Roe vs. Wade," because of the
subject and the critically praised
mini-series "Lonesome Dove,"
because of its authentically raunchy
Western dialogue.
But the network bosses said
advertisers, from whom the networks
draw their revenues, have the right to
withhold sponsorship of shows to
which they object and in fact have
always shied away from certain
programs.
"We get advertiser pull-out all the
time," said CBS Entertainment
President Kim LeMasters. "That is a
normal landscape for network
television." Some advertisers, he said,
"will not advertise in any show that
has water in it, or it has certain cars in
it that are offensive to them."
Advertiser boycotts don't become
tantamount to censorship, LeMasters
said, unless the network bows to the
pressure. Of controversial shows, he
said, "I plan to continue to broadcast
them. That is our ultimate statement."
CBS Broadcast Group President
Howard Stringer sees advertiser
sensitivity as part of a larger viewer
"revolt" against sexually explicit or
violent fare.
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"The message to the creative
community is again that taste, albeit
difficult to define, still revolves
around quality, and that the audience
is smarter at that then you tend to
think," he said.
"We can defend ourselves when we
put something on the air that's really
worth defending. And some of the
sitcoms in which (sex) is a one-track
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NBC President and Chief
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are simply responding to consumer
desires and don't have any sinister
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"They scare off real easy when it
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even though it might not have any
real impact. What I have been trying
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and say, listen, investigate the real
facts. Try to make a more informed
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The networks believe that allowing
advertisers to prescreen shows will
help educate them. But at a meeting
of television critics this summer,
concern was voiced that prescreening
would be an even bigger step toward
censorship.
No, say the network executives.
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shows, and those will go on the air
regardless of their reaction.
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from the outside," said ABC
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make a decision, obviously, it's in the
interest of third parties who want this
to make it appear that that pressure
has been primarily responsible for it."
At the critics meeting, Terry
Rakolta, the Michigan housewife who
organized a boycott of the hilarious
but admittedly often tasteless Fox
comedy "Married ... With Children"
had backed off some of her earlier
criticisms and now advocates policing
the airwaves only during "family"
viewing hours.
"What we're saying is self
regulate," sheaid. "You know the
boundaries. We're not in the line
drawing business. You draw the line."
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that.
Tartikoff told the critics, "I do
think there were some instances, as
I'm sure, having read a lot of your
individual columns, you felt, too, that
there was some line-crossing and
some shows that were ill-advised to
have been broadcast in the form that
they were, and we've recognized
that."
Stringer said the bottom line is, as
always, viewer discretion.
"I have a sort of vague feeling that
censorship, like charity, should begin
at home, but unlike charity, should
stay there."
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