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Dial for Answers. Norman Kimmey, 17, decided to build an artificial kidney, now exchanges learned letters with a professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. Peggy Owen. 16, is trying to induce cancer in mice by injecting them with carcinogens. With the help of Mary McCarthy, 17, Bill Tippie, 18...
Electronic Brain. Standard & Poor's system (cost to date: $50,000) is the result of a year's experimentation with an electronic computer that keeps tabs on the market. The transactions on the exchange's ticker tape are duplicated on a special tape that is fed into...
The computer has even learned to adjust to the ticker's habit of dropping digits when it falls behind the trading pace on the floor, can recognize and signal mistakes in quotations in a matter of seconds. The system is so swift that it would be possible to average...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 5--Use of incredibly tiny "cryotrons" in place of tubes and transistors in new Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer research was announced by that institution today as a major contribution to a "revolution" in electronics.
The "66" is a complex dead-reckoning system that measures the airplane's speed by means of radar pulses reflected from the ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This...