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The Use of Thread Memory in Amnesia Aphasia and Concept Learning, by Lucia Vaina and Richard D. Greenblatt

Assignment

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

You have just had a nightmare. In your nightmare, President Hockfield has resigned as President of MIT so as to devote all her time to working with Professor Winston on Artificial Intelligence. Strangely, she retains some of the habits and trappings of her former office. For example, she still likes to send messages to the MIT community about what she is doing, and you have stayed on as her special assistant for communications. She has just read the Greenblatt-Vaina paper, and believing it is a great paper, she has asked you to prepare a message reviewing the paper and urging everyone to read it.

• Prepare the message.
• Wait, it is, after all, a nightmare, so you think she might have said it was a horrible paper. Your message is to urge everyone to avoid the paper. (Do not review the paper a second time; just type description goes here.)
• Then, separately, suppose Vaina and Greenblatt ask you for advice on how they should market their paper. Identify a suitable slogan, symbol, salient, and surprise.