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1.visionary - One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to "see" things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is, how can the computer be programmed to make use of the camera information? See SMOP, AI-complete.)
2.visionary - [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.
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One of my pieces, which fell so far short of my visionary performances as to treat of the lowly and familiar theme of Spring, was the first thing I ever had in print.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
She was no longer the milkmaid, but a visionary essence of woman--a whole sex condensed into one typical form.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
The longer she lived, the more experience and observation she had of life, the greater was her wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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