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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 22, 1968 Policemen Hold Institute Here Achieving a partnership be tween a community and its police men will be studied next week in a Police and Community Re lations Institute at Texas A&M University. Ira Scott, police training di vision head of the Texas Engi neering Extension Service, said 80 policemen, chiefs and school personnel are expected to register Sunday. The institute co-director noted that institute sessions in the Memorial Student Center will run Monday through Thursday. Los Angeles police deputy chief James G. Fisk, community rela tions director, will make the key note address Monday. His topic will be “Law Enforcement—'Ready for Partnership.” Featured speakers include John Feild (cq), community relations servicei director, U. S. Conference of Mayors, and Dr. Nelson A. Watson, asssitant director, re search and development division, International Association of Chiefs of Police, both of Wash ington, D. C.; Col. W. E. Speir (cq), Texas Department of Public Safety; Lewis Berry, executive secretary. Sheriffs’ Association of Texas; Don McEvoy, National Conference, Christian and Jews Association, and Wallace D. Beasley, executive director, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Training and Standards. Berry, who edits “Texas Law man,” McEvoy and Beasley are located in Austin. Co-directing the four-day insti tute will be E. R. McWilliams of Houston, NCCJA. The association provides participant scholarships. BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATfe • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans FARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 Student Teaches Computer Games COMPUTER TEACHER Mike Glanville, a Houston youth who skipped his senior year in high school to enroll at Texas A&M University, checks to see how well A&M’s computer learned its latest lesson. He is “teaching” it to play checkers as part of a research project dealing with artificial intelligence systems. Oren Beal, Darby (Butch) Meier, and Eddie Novosad, formerly of the MSC Barberships, announce the opening of Villa Maria Barbers & Stylists Friday, August 16. “Our staff of home town men will continue to give you the excellent service that we have given in the past— with the addition of hair styling and razor contours.” 812 Villa Maria Road — across from the Skyway Drive - In. 823-8925 A Houston youth who normally wouldn’t even be in college yet is teaching Texas A&M’s big computer a thing or two. Computer teacher Mike Glan ville, who looks younger than his 18 years, is a high school dropout, of sorts. He passed up his senior year at Westchester High to en roll at A&M last fall. To say Glanville, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Glanville, did well at Aggieland is a gross under statement. He was awarded the equivalent of a semester’s credit by simply taking examinations in several tough math, science and engineering courses. He finished his first year with sophomore standing, is now en rolled in summer school and par ticipating in university-sponsored research on the side. THE RESEARCH is Glanville’s own idea, sparked by an article he read while in the sixth grade. It deals with artificial intelli gence systems—or simply teach ing a computer to learn, a task which in fact, is not so simple. Glanville’s efforts to date have centered around teaching A&M’s new IBM 360/65 to play checkers. What might seem to be frivo lous, the young scholar indicates, could lead to something big—like possibly the basis for improved procedures in air traffic control, more accurate landings on un manned space flights and pre liminary medical diagnosis. IN VIEW OF REPORTS about computers being used in chess and other games, the A&M stu dent’s checker project may not seem so astounding. 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Asked how you penalize a com puter, Glanville quips: “You ob viously don’t kick it.” Whether working with computers or ani mals, he says you take steps to make internal adjustments. “IN THE CASE of the com puter, you are able to make these adjustments directly by resetting certain numbers which are in volved in the output decision,” the young whiz explains, “where as in the animal, you shock it or feed it or otherwise cause it to make some sort of internal adjustment on itself.” After a game or two of “train ing,” Glanville recalls, the com puter began averaging 90 per cent legal moves, meaning it would not cause a checker to move off the board or occupy a space in which another player was already located. “If you can teach a computer to play checkers, you can teach it to do other things,” the Aggie contends. Right now, he adds, computers are programmed simply to carry out certain functions. “IN ARTIFICIAL intelligence systems,” Glanville continues,” the computer is able to modify its program to a certain degree— such that it would behave differ ently under the same conditions in the future.” He points out that most pre vious work in artificial intelli gence systems centered around pattern recognition—being able to identify visual or sound patterns, or anything which will transform into a set of numbers. While Glanville obviously feels the role of the computer can be expanded, he doesn’t foresee the day when such machines will be come the master of man. He doesn’t say it’s impossible, but he emphasizes it would take a pretty good computer to do the trick. 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