This notion was revived in the 1950s, when the building of a genuine chess-playing machine was seen by artificial-intelligence researchers as a stepping-stone towards a general theory of machine intelligence.
After orchestrating 2 million collisions between lead nuclei and protons, like the sort you see above, the collider's Compact Muon Solenoid group and researchers at MIT suspect that stray, linked pairs of gluon particles in the mix were signs of color-glass condensate, a currently theory-only form of matter that sees gluons travel in liquid-like, quantum-entangled waves.
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While his report is fully supportive of the move to degree-level training, it has acknowledged there is a "theory-practice gap".
Yielding 2.2%, Wal-Mart Stores is a Dow Theory Forecasts Long-Term Buy.
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Over 30 years Koch has distilled these readings into a theory -- Market Based Management.
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Morgan McCall, a professor at the University of Southern California, developed a different view that moves beyond the skills correlated with success to a circumstance-based theory.
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And we might be provided with clues that reveal the trail to unraveling the ultimate holy grail of fundamental particle physics -- a quantum theory of gravity.
For others, feminism is simply a common-sense theory of equality.
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Arran has said he would like to solve the Riemann hypothesis - a theory about the patterns of prime numbers which has baffled the greatest mathematicians for 150 years.
The increase in hurricanes over the last decade has prompted some scientists to cite global warming as the cause -- a theory the authors of the 2005 hurricane forecast do not buy.
We need a higher-level theory of cancer based not on the properties of particular cancer cells, but rather based on the properties of the set of all malignant cells that could evolve.
One woman who has dated fifty-eight men since her divorce, a few years ago, told me that she maintains a chart, both to keep the men straight and to try to discern patterns as though there might be a unified-field theory of why men are dogs.
In between his shifts as a bouncer, Langan single-handedly devised a theory that unifies science and theology.
He rejected as a cooked-up "conspiracy theory" a suggestion by his predecessor as prime minister, Gordon Brown, that a deal had been struck between the Conservatives and News International, a British arm of News Corp.
Ms. Freedman joined Wedbush in November 2011 following a year-and-a-half stint at retailer Theory, an experience she calls her "vocational MBA" that helped her become more well-versed in the operations of a business and gave her an edge in covering retail stocks.
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Do you have a sense of -- do you have a theory of why that is?
Targeting individual customers with personalized offers is a decades-old marketing theory that has only recently blossomed, thanks to new technology.
By contrast, a truly non-dualistic theory of mind has to state what is clearly obvious: your mind and your brain are identical.
What they never said was this was a theory tailor-made for litigation.
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This gives more weight to a very well-supported theory that modern birds evolved from theropods, the group of small carnivorous dinosaurs to which Sinosauropteryx belonged.
Many believe capital deployment should follow a "pecking-order theory" that prescribes that managements should apply their cash flow, in order of priority, to fix their balance sheet if overleveraged, fund organic investments, pay dividends, fund acquisitive growth and, only when there is additional cash left over, to distribute it via share repurchases.
We would be hard-pressed to devise a theory under which the U.S. Constitution precludes state-level insurance mandates.
He remembered an earlier article he'd read about a radical--though discredited--theory: that smell came not from a molecule's shape, but from its vibration.
It is written in a simple question-and-answer format, and does a nice job of breaking down complex tax theory into bite-sized understandable chunks.
In the Anglo-Saxon world Lamarck's name, if it is known at all, is associated with a theory long since discredited - the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics - the idea that traits or attributes acquired or learned in the space of your life time will somehow be inherited by your children at birth.
The best-known theory for understanding why a country's current-account balance might rise or fall was developed by Robert Mundell, a Canadian economist, and Marcus Fleming, a Briton, in the early 1960s.
It is that as a mathematician he discovered - alone and unaided - the binomial theory usually attributed to a famous English scholar called Isaac Newton.
The ruling is a powerful rebuke of the so-called cy pres doctrine, a legal theory that has sprung up, despite dubious academic credentials, to deal with an intractable problem with class actions: Unclaimed funds.
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And the board of K-theory, a maths journal owned by Springer, a German publishing firm, quit in 2007.
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