The first word of a sentence.
The first word of a quotation. [He said, "Let's do it."]
Exception: If a quotation is less than a sentence, don't capitalize the first word. [He said it was "wonderful."]
The word "I."
Proper names and abbreviations of proper names. [S.D. Tripp]
Proper names used as adjectives. [the Fourier transform]
Geographical names and names of political units. [Asia, Fukushima]
Compass directions only when they are parts of names. [North Korea]
Names of streets, buildings, parks, and companies. [Broadway, the Empire State Building, Central Park, Sony]
Names of organizations and religions. [the Republican Party, Buddhism]
Names of races and nationalities. [Caucasian, Japanese]
The names of wars, battles, historical events, and historical periods. [World War II, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Period]
The names of prizes, treaties, and famous documents. [the Nobel Prize, the Declaration of Independance]
Military and civilian titles. [General MacArthur, Prime Minister Hashimoto]
Academic degrees. [John Smith, Ph.D.]
The first word and all important words in the names of books, plays, newspapers, journals, and magazines.
Do not capitalize unimportant words such as articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
If an unimportant word has five or more letters, you should capitalize it.
dr. tripp is my teacher.
The university of aizu is a new university.
The aizu area is located in northeastern japan.
[book title] Latex line by line
[book title] power macintosh programming starter kit
The association for computing machinery
the John Smith school of business
the sea of japan
the second world war
[magazine] educational technology news
The japanese and the english both live on islands off the coasts of major continents.
[title] Welcoming a new form of intelligence on earth
The Powers accounting machine company also went through a series of mergers by 1927 to Remington Rand corporation, which merged with Sperry gyroscope to become Sperry-Rand corporation in 1955. [from The Age of Intelligent Machines]
In 1924 watson was named chief executive officer, and he renamed the company international business machines (IBM).... [from The Age of Intelligent Machines]
In cybernetics, norbert weiner's seminal book on information theory, weiner describes three ways in which the world's (and his) outlook had changed forever. [from The Age of Intelligent Machines]
These early successes led Simon and Newell to say in a 1958 paper entitled "Heuristic problem solving: The next advance in operations research," "there are now in the world machines that can think...." [from The Age of Intelligent Machines, p. 199]
These systems were capable of recognizing simple shapes, but Minsky and papert showed, in their classic perceptrons, that the machines were essentially just matching individual pixel values against stored templates. [from The Age of Intelligent Machines]
as we approach the next generation of expert systems, three bottlenecks have been recognized and are being attacked by researchers in the united states, europe, and japan. [from The Age of Intelligent Machines, p. 301]
Ever since Bar-Hillel's famous paper of 1960, "A demonstration of the nonfeasibility of fully automatic High-Quality translation," researchers have understood the necessity that the computer understand both the syntax and the semantics of the text in a language before attempting a translation into another language. [from The Age of Intelligent Machines, p. 306]
A particularly impressive robot called wabot-2 was developed in the mid-to-late 1980s by Waseda university and refined by Sumitomo electric. [from The Age of Intelligent Machines, p. 318]
ex. An introductory book about multimedia systems for education
[Using Multimedia Systems in School] or [An Introduction to Multimedia Systems for Educators]
An advanced book on C programming.
A book on computer graphics programming for the Macintosh.
A research article reporting on using a sound interface for blind people
A magazine article on a new computer chip for virtual reality applications.
A book on grammar checking algorithms for non-native English speakers
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