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system would have freshmen list choices of Houses, and Masters their choices of freshmen. From the two lists, the computer could quickly and accurately match the desires of students and Masters.
The computer apparently goofed, however, when it matched a Radcliffe freshman who thought she had asked for "sloba of the Adams House type" with "completely low-class, unintellectual, unmotivated, uninteresting gangsters." An Adams House slob that she got "just what she asked for."
Guided by the computer, which can track simultaneously any reasonable number of airplanes, the alphanumeric block follows the blip through all its turns and circlings. As the plane slants down for a landing, the blocks report its changes of altitude. Even when the scope is swarming with blips there is...
By Words. The final decision was in favor of control by words. There are plenty of devices available that can distinguish with precision between a limited number of spoken words. The Honeywell men figured that a vocabulary of ten normal words was enough to give all needed commands. When the...
No voice command apparatus has yet been built, but the Honeywell engineers say that all its components can be available in the near future. And they are satisfied that the astronauts will approve. There will be no uncomfortable gadgets hitched to their tongues or eyes; all they will need do...