Word: computerization
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Rossi's ray catcher at-Volcano Ranch is an array of scintillation counters that gives electrical signals whenever fast-moving particles hit it. If a shower looks interesting, its record is transferred to tabulator cards and analyzed by a computer at Kirtland Air Force Base. The final answer tells...
"The Eye." With the help of light beams, video and mirrors, the optical scanner moves rapidly across letters, numbers and handwriting, breaks them down into "machine language," or electrical impulses, and passes them along for an analysis to an electronic computer (see diagram). The scanner can do the work of...
In the burgeoning field of data processing, involving everything from billing customers to registering book club memberships, the optical scanner is a major, long-awaited breakthrough. The chief limitation of computers-aside from their inability to think except as told-is that they can record and process information only as...
Corp. (51% owned by Chance Vought Aircraft) is developing a scanner: so is Cambridge's Baird-Atomic, Inc., which is working on a scanner for the Air Force that is able to read Russian, then feed it to a computer that translates the words into English. Though all employ...
Launched last fall, the 30-hour course ($1.50) is so successful that Teacher Wood plans to open branches this fall in Atlanta, Minneapolis and New York City. Last week, having already taught some 1,250 students in Washington, she had a long list of glowing testimonials. A Wilmington librarian actually...