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ELECTRONIC computers have not learned, so far, to act as art critics or judges of beauty contests, but they are being taught to see. What may come of this? For a look forward at the sobering prospects, read SCIENCE, Seeing-Eye Computer.
At Hangar C in the Snark compound, a bus disgorges a squad of Strategic Air Command trainees assigned to study the air-breathing missile. Another group runs a test on an 80-ft.-high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets...
Computers are muscling in on humans in more ways than one. Only a few years ago they were still simple-minded beasts that could understand nothing but predigested figures. Later they acquired senses of a sort: they could feel changes of temperature, hear musical tones, recognize differences of light and...
"Gladly," replies the questing lama. His lamasery has been occupied for 300 years with but one project-finding and listing j the 9 billion names of God. The explanation satisfies Dr. Wagner and he packs the Mark V Computer off to Tibet with two technicians, George and Chuck. As "electromatic...
Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland. On a brilliantly starlit night, the technicians descend by donkeyback to the foot of the high Himalayas. "Wonder if the computer's finished its run," muses George. "It was due about now." Both men gaze upward and...