THE BATTALION
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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.
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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.
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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. The key,
however, is that Glanville is
“teaching” the computer to play
checkers, whereas in most of the
other cases the machine is merely
programmed to react in a certain
way in a specific situation.
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Glanville only “explains” to
the A&M computer how a checker
board looks and gives it an evalu
ation of the move it just made.
“I penalize it if it makes a
wrong move and reward it if it
jumps an opposing piece,” the
student notes.
He compares the learning proc
ess in a computer to that of a
mouse, dog or any other reason
ably intelligent animal.
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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