Word: computerization
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Automation came to the law last week. A computer is now ready to take over the lawyer's plodding and tedious search through vast and ever-expanding archives to track down rulings that apply to the case at hand.
Now a lawyer who wants to find out what New York state courts have ruled on a particular point will no longer have to plow through shelfloads of books -he can simply ask Sperry Rand's Univac III. A Law Research Service law yer translates the inquiry into a...
Yet there is much in The McLandress Dimension which will appeal to Harvard readers. Mr. Epernay obviously knows a great deal about the University. He speaks of but does not name a certain Harvard professor of Comparative Literature who has a community-wide reputation for absent-mindedness and a penchant...
The player tees off and smacks the ball at an illuminated picture of a fairway, 17 feet away. Elapsed time between the sound of club on ball and the ball's impact on screen enables the computer to calculate length of drive and probable roll within five yards. One...
The noise that comes back from the bottom is changed in frequency by the movement of the ship. This easily detected frequency shift is the celebrated Doppler effect, and a computer translates the change into speed-and-direction instructions for the automatic marking pen. A single dial adjusts the navigator...