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The electronic computer won another small battle in its drive to take over Harvard College Friday, as a human error in programming led to a of the Spanish placement test results for 25 freshmen.
In all, 224 issues on the New York Stock Exchange reached historic highs. They included CBS (741), Singer (83⅛), Sears, Roebuck (98), Xerox (29¾). One of the best gainers of all was Control Data, the young and profit able Minneapolis computer maker that is often called the little...
Computers may some day hold conventions of their own, delivering learned papers on people and running up expense accounts. Last week, however, man still had the upper hand as the Association for Computing Machinery held its 18th annual conference in Denver. William C. Norris, president of the highly successful Control...
At Boston's H. P. Hood & Sons, a computer figures out the right mix of fruit that goes into the company's tutti-frutti ice cream, instructs the ice cream-making machinery just what grade and quantity of ice cream to make. In the kitchens of Sara Lee...
They are now widely used to check on the consumer's buying habits (the average supermarket shopper spends $13.10 on 22 items each time she enters the store), are pressed into service by oil companies to locate likely areas to drill, and can tell the Navy weather conditions surrounding...