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>Vice Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, 52, new Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, succeeding Sharp. Alabama-born Tommy Moorer, known in Pentagon corridors as "the man you always send for when you have a tough job," is already an odds-on favorite with many a top officer to become Chief of...
As a name, number or statistic, every American is now embedded in the memory of at least one electronic digital computer-the versatile calculator that is rapidly taking charge of everything from taxes to insurance to airline reservations to CIA intelligence. Man's capacity to manage vast organizations is...
Computers promise to make U.S. business far more efficient, possibly bigger, certainly more powerful. However it affects lower-echelon employment, the computer is sure torequire a new breed of top manager: men who combine the talents of the big-businessman, the public administrator and the scientific researcher. Where will such...
Trying to prepare for "the world of 1985," Carnegie envisions factories that run themselves and managers largely concerned with planning future factories. To manufacture thinkers, Carnegie essentially teaches patterns of behavior-how men act in organizations, the interaction of banking, money and markets with unions, politics and science. To arm...
...computer, for example, Psychologist Herbert A. Simon and his colleagues have been teaching the machine to "think"-that is, to make "cunning" choices by a form of reasoning rather than computing answers by doggedly calculating all possible alternatives. Using Simon's methods, an M.I.T. researcher has computerized the numerous and subtle judgments required in trust investment. Carnegie claims credit for the first industrial application of linear programming, which has since been used for everything from oil refining to concocting dog food. Oth er research projects range from the psychology of insecure employees to the economics of the U.S. theater...