Word: supersmart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conventional war games date back to the late 18th century, when they were laboriously played with wooden blocks on colorfully painted boards. Today's high-speed computers, with their prodigious memory banks and supersmart silicon processing chips, can paint realistic playing fields and speed the action up to nearly "real time." While aspects of the Janus program remain classified, it could be described as a computer-age variation of the children's sea game, Battleship. Janus, which is played on land pits the U.S. against forces modeled after the Soviets'. Two teams of players divide into separate...