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THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite explores the far-out ways scientists are developing to transmit words, pictures - even thoughts - in "The Communications Explosion." Helping Walter get the message across are M.I.T.'s Computer Scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke, Automation Expert...
Rather than risk $140 million on a product that might not warrant it, the Dutch electronics giant Philips decided last fall to give up developing big computers, concentrate instead on little ones. Battling to survive against U.S. competitors, British producers have been forced to sacrifice innovation to cut costs. In...
Patient Computer. The relative locations of the two sparks, which determine the direction from which the particle came, will be noted electronically and stored on magnetic tapes. Every evening, the tapes will be sent to Cairo's Ein Shams University. There they will be fed into a computer that...
After patiently accumulating the muon data for two months-the time necessary to get statistically valid readings-the computer will spew it all out into a cathode-ray oscilloscope. On the screen of the oscilloscope, the data will be converted into images resembling X-ray plates, one for each face...
Jobs & Capital. More and more Europeans, however, take a longer view, even though U.S. investment has reached a point where, for example, Americans control 30% of Europe's automaking, 50% of the West German oil industry and 90% of the French computer industry. Obviously, new plants mean jobs. G.M...