Commencement Address Transcript, 1960: Let\u27\u27s Wave the Flag a Little

Graduation from college is always a significant event. It is an occasion for rejoicing, but also for serious thought and reflection..

The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, £65.00, pp. 336, hbk [Book review]

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A Connectionist Architecture for Representing and Reasoning about Structured Knowledge

uKLONE is the first sub-symbolic connectionist systenm for reasoning about high level knowledge to approach the representational power of current symbolic AI systems. The algorithm for building a network takes as input a knowledge base definition in a language very similar to that of KL2, which has previously been implemented orJy in Lisp. In nXLONE, a concept is more than a set of features: it is a complex of required and optional subparts filling well defined roles, each of which may have its own type restrictions. In addition to being able to use complex structured descriptions in its reasoning, ^iKLONE exhibits a facility for plausible inference due to its inherently parallel constraint satisfaction algorithm that is not shared by symbolic systems. This paper describes h o w the system answers a query that requires both of these characteristics. It is hoped that this is the beginnings of a response to (McDermott, 1986)'s challenge that connectionists should pay more attention to architectural issues and rely less onlearrung

Implementing Plain Language Guidelines in Student Documents

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Creating an American Underclass: the Federal Government's Refusal to Recognize Gay Americans' Fundamental Right to Marry

Article published in the Michigan State University School of Law Student Scholarship Collection

Development and evaluation of shipping systems for bedding plants

Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Horticulture, 1991Includes bibliographical reference

When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies

This article argues that recent calls in this journal and elsewhere for Critical Management Studies scholars to embrace rather than reject performativity presents an overly optimistic view of (a) the power of language to achieve emancipatory organizational change and (b) the capability of lone Critical Management Studies researchers to resignify management discourses. We introduce the notion of failed performatives to extend this argument and discuss its implications for critical inquiry. If Critical Management Studies seeks to make a practical difference in business and society, and realize its ideals of emancipation, we suggest alternative methods of impact must be explored