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  2. Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. [1]

  3. History of Cornell University - Wikipedia

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    This dream would become a lifelong goal of White's. After a year at Geneva, White convinced his father to send him to Yale University. [7] For White, Yale was a great improvement over Geneva, but he found that even at one of the country's great universities there was "too much reciting by rote and too little real intercourse."

  4. Robert Andrews Millikan - Wikipedia

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    Millikan in 1891. Robert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison, Illinois. [6] He went to high school in Maquoketa, Iowa and received a bachelor's degree in the classics from Oberlin College in 1891 and his doctorate in physics from Columbia University in 1895 [10] – he was the first to earn a Ph.D. from that department.

  5. Historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    In President Barack Obama's eight years in office, he invested more than $4 billion to HBCUs. [89] In 2019, President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan bill that permanently invested more than $250 million a year to HBCUs. [90] In 2021, President Joe Biden's first year in office, he invested a historic $5.8 billion to support HBCUs. [91]

  6. Sully Sullenberger - Wikipedia

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    Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III (born January 23, 1951) is an American retired fighter pilot, diplomat, and airline pilot. He is best known for his actions as captain of US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009, when he ditched the plane, landing on the Hudson River after both engines were disabled by a bird strike.

  7. Tuskegee University - Wikipedia

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    History class at Tuskegee, 1902. The school was founded on July 4, 1881, as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers. This was a result of an agreement made during the 1880 elections in Macon County between a former Confederate Colonel, W.F. Foster, who was a candidate for re-election to the Alabama Senate, and a local black Leader, Lewis Adams. [9]

  8. Narcotics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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    A study of the early experience of new NA members in Victoria Australia in 1995 interviewed 91 members initially and 62 (68%) after 12 months and found that higher self-help participation as measured by service role involvement, step work, and stable meeting attendance, in the 12 months before the follow-up was associated with a four-fold ...

  9. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517198-5. Nye, Mary Jo (1996). Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800–1940. New York: Twayne. ISBN 0-8057-9512-X. OCLC 185866968.. Segrè, Emilio (1984).