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Outwitting the Computer. The first hint of trouble came five seconds after the $500 million plane lifted off from Southern California's Edwards Air Force Base. Hearing a loud thump on the fuselage and seeing a red warning light blinking on the control panel, Alvin White, 47, North American...
While White and Cotton tried desperately to move the gear by whipping the plane's nose up and down, ground engineers pored over charts in order to pinpoint the exact cause of the trouble. They concluded that a short circuit had snarled the computer, which was programmed to allow...
After cruising for another 75 minutes to reduce their fuel load, White decided to graze the ground briefly to ascertain whether the forward gear was properly locked in place. As soon as he touched down, six of the eight tires on the main landing gear blew out. The same computer...
Donald S. Shepard '69 discussed the technique he has developed at the regular seminar of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics. Howard T. Fisher director of the Laboratory, described Shepard's work as brilliant, and said that it solved one of the most difficult problems in computer map-making.
Although 92 per cent of the subjects studied are now dead, information on their life has often been slow in reaching Damon's office, and the study should take several more years to complete. He is now filing the data on punched cards for analysis at the Harvard Computer Center...