Word: computerization
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When Shoebox grows up, IBM may set it to work taking down spoken words and numbers for such harried people as airplane pilots or supermarket checkers. Later, it may graduate to recording customers' orders, controlling machine tools, or solving mathematical problems. Eventually, the day may come when a troubled...
The Computation Laboratory has completed negotiations for the installation of an IBM 7090 computer, the largest calculating machine in current commercial use. It will be available for undergraduate research and laboratory work, and at the level of Engineering Sciences 10, which is open to Freshmen.
His committee has as yet made no definite decisions as to how it will budget the computers' operating time. One project is the mathematical simulation for the Business School, of an entire manufacturing company. The computer would be able to tell researchers the exact effects, projected several years in the...
Yet no civilian or group of civilians has the information necessary for the final decision. A staggering array of considerations confronts the President and his advisers. Not the least of course are three problems which do not admit of ready quantification for computer solution: leukemia, monstrous births, and bone cancer...
Contrasting computer operations with human thought, Miller stressed that the machines do not deal with "the meanings behind the symbols," while human thought deals primarily with these meanings.