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For companies that are too small to maintain their own training programs, at least 23 management-training associations are waiting to take executives in tow. The biggest and oldest of these, the American Management Association, has blossomed from only twelve conferences in 1949 to 1,200 courses, seminars and conferences...
*In somewhat the same way that the caveman counted one, two, one, two, and a heap, the electronic computer also starts out on a problem using only two basic values-one for when the circuit is on, another for when it is off. But this primitive off-again-on-again...
The art of satellite watching improved last week-with two satellites to watch and more time to practice. The Smithsonian's observatory at Cambridge reported that it has pinpointed both Soviet satellites accurately enough to backtrack by computer and find the hour when they were launched. Sputnik 1, the...
In recent history of the Institute there are two striking examples of this educational theory in practice. The first is the Institute's abandoning the Electronic Computer Project. This project was begun in 1946 by John van Neumann as an attempt to give the mathematician and physicist a high speed...
ELECTRONIC BRAINS are so expensive that businessmen will form co-ops to lease and operate giant computers. In first such move by private enterprise, four fire insurance companies-Springfield, Phoenix, Aetna, National-formed independent SPAN Electronic Data Processing Co. to share $1,300,000 (rental cost: roughly $30,000 per...