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Show Page 20—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, January11, 1980 Forms Bother Businessman Pressler Candidacy Sparks Furor By Tom Tiede HUMBOLDT, S.D. (NEA) - y. menttake over the fuel industry for two years to, ah, Ford, George Bush, Bob Dole. et al’ don't bother to bring solidly behind Larry Pressler for president Larry who? Pressler. P-r-e-s-s-l-e-r. You must have heard of him, gentlemen. He’s been a United States senator from South Dakota for 10 months. Before that he was a congressman, a schola andsi -H stuRosSlay a the lad- native son. “Yuh,” he says, “Larry's a good More power to him, yuh. , we've got a from Humboldt runningfor president!” Now that’s grass roots, gentlemen. People from one end of Humboldtto the other, a distance of about a dozen stores, say Pressler will make the best White House candi- ih Parrish says Pressler has been a “truly lousy”legislator. write as Okay, it was a low punch. they say the bachelor senator has dated every womannorth of the Potomac, and presumably all of them will vote for him, those who are of age. Face it, gentlemen, none of many you are heartthrobs anymore; it’s a worry. So, fair warning, remember the name: P-r-e-s-s-l-e-r. He promises a gasohol tank in every garage, a fair deal for Vietnam veterans, and a rebuilding of ante America, up, up, up, until it’s just like anes ity He wants to be residentof the republic, yuh, fore he’s 40 and too old to enjoy it. le may not have any campaign money yet, andhis staff consists mostly of old South Dakota school chums,but he’s fet cheek. And he’s got jumboldt. The people here wear overalls, they own pickups and shooting guns, and every man Jack of them is quick to remind you that this is how Jimmy Carter got his start. Jimmy who? press tinually and keep on as- y you quires oxygen to survive. * the way a human brain recalling from memory. It is a contentaddressable memory That is, the content of whatyou see searchesthe memory and finds what you arelooking for.” Little, a noted authority on superconductivity, and his associates are working with psycho-biologists and engineers ‘who arelooking at predictions for our 1:30-3:30-5:30 Washington, for one thing, ork 736-31 science fiction. for we should be making x something that is essen- » tially immortal. “It would lear con- x you see something, the image itself does the | MATINEES SATURDAY ONLY CORALTHEATRE model. Our model appears to be the way a brain could work, so our next aim is to build an artifical brain which thinks ask EVENINGS7:30 & 9:30 Pasian snot stmcigs taste STO KEKE STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) — A Stanford University experimental physicist has spent the last five years working toward construction of an artificial brain he believes would be able to think for itself and even grow smarter. William A. Little has already put together a computerized model of his project using the equivalent of four human brain neurons (as comjared to the tens of bilions of neurons in a humanbrain). “It has growing pains,” saysLittle. ‘Although we are leaming remarkable things from this first model, it is sometimes unstable and suffers a sort of epileptic fit. “What we have done is to develop a theory which allows the mappingofthe evolution of the internal state of the brain onto a problem which is tractable mathematically and which we know how to study from physics. “Once you have the mathematical modelthen can aed But youth has its points. In releases as anybody in the great chamber, but he apparently dislikes the related details of the office. He rarely coe in floor debates, e does not appreciate committee time, some months he misses up to half of the Senate's roll calls. Notthat Pressler is devoid of ideas, though. For example, he thinks it's high time the nation does something about the energy crisis. Yuh. He Years on Artificial Brain joes.” This artificial brain would not be programmed like an ordinary Most of requirements the reportingrelated was in toconjunction financial the housingwith in- dustry. amine - ponapogee a large their twilight years.” And, gentlemen, there ma’ be something to this last criticism. Though Pressler has been in Washington five years now, in both houses, he has neither sponsored nor manay any major legislation. besthe’s done is to attach a single nonbinding amendmentto one of the routine foreign aidbills. Senate colleagues say he Physicist Works Last Five mathematically such questions as ‘How doesit knowthatit exists?’ That should come out as a mathematical quantity which is definable. What appears to come out of our model are elegant ways of recalling information. “The remarkable thing abouta brainis that when { his presidential candidacy back in September. His state's can Soree scioenenal to the con . ; és : Sate: Sa are Ske ere over 50 should drop dead. He feels voters should re-evaluate the tradition of considering candidates who are “in GOP chairman describes the 31-year-old legislator's campaign in three words: “Ha,ha, ha. Admittedly, not everyone in the state is as pleased with the r campaign as are his friends and neighbors. And, well, let's be frank, a few of South Dakota’s political leaders think the senator is bats; state GOP Chairman Dan Parrish, for one, describes Pressler's race in three words:“Ha,ha,ha.” Parrish and other Republicanofficials here are not keen on Pressler because the: believe he’s an orpeeiaaleit. He once was a Democrat, timated total wage and salar rps i. 2 a age and salary cost of $72.545 . The a cost was probably higher. Severt said suggesting that all contestants LARRY PRESSLER, a Republican who's represented South Dakota in the U.S. Senate for 10 months, announced date since George McGovern. (Surely you remember him — he was the last senator from South to run for the plete 1,138 forms. 900 of which were required by the cmpHe sancra'y 5 ederal government He s : e Said ns a mies Seeee a sconloremyeo de waeeKKKKKKKKH is trying to move up =x Small Business that during the year that ended Oct 31, 1979 his company used 9 349 man-hours to com. Peet ahe wont ’ pore iieeonect! September. And by gosh you should whoparticipated in a routesall Business Administration survey of the government's paperwers burden on small firms f vert told the Senate Select Committee on And too, the senator thinks something should be done for Vietnam veterans. He was in the war himself, if somewhat distant from the fighting, and he thinks it's a shame the veterans have problems. He also thinks it’s a shame that older people, rural people, and lots of other people have problems. So, gentlemen, Senator paigns to this South Dakota village. Humboldt is already fi Inc., of Martinsville Va. was one of the executives 3ilthe fornecease ee aout BO percent of straighten it out your 1980 nominating cam- dex00 fast. And Mars. Ken Metthews says there are “some that wishes he was married, ‘cause what will we do withouta first lady?”Still, in the main, candidate Pressler can count on a big vote out here ontheprairie. Take Ray Ideker, for instance. He runs the town garage, wears an oil company cap, punctuates his sentences with the adverb “yuh,” andis just tickled pink about the the forms required by federal. state and local governments. James Severt, president of Nationwide Homes. proposes io have the govern- Neve to Ronald Reagan, Jerry haveseen the commotion here in Humboldt. Presley, er, Pressler was born in Humboldt, and literally dozens of the 500 residents urged him on with huzzahs as he becameone of eight Republicans to enter the race. Moreover, those dozens still suprt him now well into lovember. Oh, there are a few who wonderif the senator,rt WASHINGTON (UPI) — A Virginia businessman reported to Congress itcost his modular home company at least $72.500 in a single year justtofill out similating information all y { the while. Being iB madle of e silicon and fed by electricity, it would computer. never grow older or slow “Tt would simply be ex- down, and would growinposed to input, and it finitely in knowledge.” would develop a capability of recognizing and ing. You feed it information. say through a TV camera. It gains experience through observation, just like an infant. It forms mental SHOWS 7:15 & 9:25 SATURDAY MATINEE 3 P.M. aR associations, develops a repertoire of knowledge. Could such a brain actually think foritself? “I believe we shall build a brain that can,” Little answers. “‘We have to be concerned with how information gets into the brain and howit is interpreted. You have to duplicate that in order to achieve a thinking brain.” Such a brain, like a human brain which rewould naturally need electricity to function. So how far off is construction of such a brain? “So far as building something that could act in a very interesting manner — that we could do right away,”’ Little says. “But creating a brain which does all that the human brain does, thatis a long wayoff. “The part that fascinates me most is to solve the mathematical and physical problems involved, rather than (at this stage) an implementation of existing knowledge “If we could understand the mathematical entity which corresponds to the human brain, we could then design and build an artifical brain — that would be real-life New York film critics award winner Best Picture Of The Year Los Angelesfilm critics award winner Best Picture Of The Year “Without question,this is the movie Hoffman has been waiting for. He delivers a performance of such skill. 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