He has been thinking about the problem of learning for over three decades, starting with courses in problem solving that he taught at the University of California, Irvine, and then with artificial intelligence systems that Xerox built for the Army to better troubleshoot broken electronics.
Perhaps all the talk of customer development, lean startups, crowdsourcing, and the myriad bits of startup lingo has obscured the simplest truth: Starting is about problem-identifying and problem-solving.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he didn't have a problem with Pettitte starting the seventh.
The immigration-reform bill in the Senate is a solid starting point for solving this problem, and I believe it can be made even better as Congress begins to actively work on it in committee next week.
But now unemployment is such a serious problem that attitudes are starting to change.
At least Britain's politicians are starting to face up to the problem.
But the roots of the problem run deep, starting in childhood.
The internet phone service says it has been working on the problem and things are starting to return to normal, though some parts of its network still appear to be down.
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Starting a business means encountering one problem after another.
Another approach is to identify potential problem areas where people are starting fires in an attempt to tackle the issue immediately.
The problem is that commentators are starting to see another feature which the US in 2011 shares with Japan in the 1990s: political paralysis.
The researchers also discussed the possibility that thinking machines might be a threat to human jobs, but honestly, having my job threatened was starting to seem like a relatively minor problem by then.
But Wachovia had been warned, as all banks were starting in 1996, about the exchange house problem.
Perhaps the biggest problem for Japan is that its starting-point was so much worse than America's or Europe's, says Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley.
If we can prevent kids from ever starting to smoke, then we can lick this problem.
"Society's starting to open their eyes that there is a problem associated (with prescription painkillers), " said Anderson.
It turns out that just by pitching a little bit more, the starting rotation could fix the Mets' most glaring problem: the bullpen.
The notion of -- the notion of starting over after decades and decades of discussing this problem is not -- is not what the American people want.
Part of the problem is that Brussels and the IMF are still starting with surreal expectations about how much growth bailouts and austerity can produce.
Uranium 235 is the key material in starting a nuclear reaction, and its acquisition is the main problem facing states which want to go nuclear.
Monday's incident is not the first mechanical problem for the 787 series, which was delivered to airlines starting in 2011 after years of manufacturing delays and cost overruns.
Another fundamental problem is that, whatever is causing the damage, treatment is starting too late.
This year, the big money problem is a 10-percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors starting next January.
And he seems to have realised what biologists themselves are only starting to come to grips with that biology is basically a software problem in which biochemical pathways stand in for computer algorithms.
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Wenger added that the way to stop Drogba could be to try to stifle his supply from Frank Lampard, who is set to return to the starting line-up for the first time since undergoing surgery on a groin problem.
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Starting receiver Stevie Johnson has yet to practice this spring because of a lingering back problem.
Starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow, Ford Engineers will post a math problem on reddit, with new questions arriving every 3 minutes and 14 seconds.
Some games present a similar problem, forcing users to click "play" in their own launchers before starting.
But seasoned planners agree the knowhow problem will outlast the next government, if not the next five-year plan starting in 1996.
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