visionary
1. 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. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM,
apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.
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