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This boon to mankind is another application of the omnipresent computer, developed by nongolfing Scientist Maximilian Richard Speiser from a system he had invented for tracking low-flying ballistic missiles. Speiser applied the system to golf balls.
Yale's 250-year-old urban campus was a particularly cramped site for experiment; over the years, an ever-growing university had to build on top of itself. Cheek-by-jowl existed buildings from the colonial brick of Connecticut Hall where Nathan Hale once lived, to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...
Sir: Computer party matching [Oct. 25] is nothing new. As undergraduates at Stanford several years ago, curious and date-hungry electrical engineers in the name of research plied a hundred-odd students with dozens of questions and fed the data into an old IBM 650. Individuals were not only machine...
Light Brain. One important weight saving is in the General Electric and Raytheon guidance system, the lightest ever devised for a ballistic missile. The computer, which does the missile's thinking in flight, weighs only half as much as its predecessor. But accuracy has not been sacrificed. In spite...
HARDLY more than a long line drive away from Minneapolis' Metropolitan Stadium is the home office of Control Data Corp., a computer manufacturer whose stock has soared 270% in the past year. The location is no coincidence, for President William C. Norris, 52, is an ardent baseball and football...