Reflecting on my high school education, I recognize certain classes have had a significant impact on me from a personal and professional standpoint. One of the classes I didn't enjoy much while taking it has made a considerable impact on me as a leader. Nope. It wasn't biology, physics, English, geography, or any other standard high school. It was a course called History of Oklahoma. Yup! In the early 1990s, the state of Oklahoma required students to take and pass a class about Oklahoma history to earn their high school diplomas. I spent my ninth and tenth grades in Oklahoma and then completed my eleventh and twelfth grades in Kansas. In the Spring of 1991, I took History of Oklahoma, which was taught by Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones was a US Air Force pilot who flew sorties during the Vietnam War. A couple of times, he had slide shows with pics of him and his buddies in the military. Mr. Jones' classroom was also quite memorable ...
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“AI does not mean “self aware”. Real AI would allow an out come of a problem to be produced from known data and from the ability to fill in the blanks of data unknown. Real AI adds a “maybe”. John Pusinsky calls this "grey logic." We are already close, MIT Press publishes: Ontologies for Bioinformatics - the last chapter outlines Ken Baclawski's path to John's – “maybe” - "The Bayesian Web." An implemented "fuzzy AI" example of “semantically intelligent vocabulary filtering” is located at Boston Children’s Hospital’s “Center on Media and Child Health.” www.cmch.tv/research/. Scalable Ontology-Based NLP eliminates the need for “query structuring” by a user. O-BNLP excels with unrestricted length conversational style queries - lots of “context.” At CMCH, pre-indexed “abstractions” of content from ten different “social science” professions are filtered by the underlying SKIP technology and ordered more precisely when the seeker is using “jargon”, well-articulated community-unique vocabulary. Try some questions like: What is the impact of the media on adolescent sexual attitudes and behaviors? Or, Can parents prevent children from experiencing unwanted effects of violent television?