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Harvard's great Mark IV computer does not spend all its time figuring out problems in physics and aerodynamics. Sometimes its electronic brain cells think about the Bible in Greek.
Some of the problems take hours or days, and the client is charged (at $100 an hour) by how long he ties up the computer. If he lacks mathematicians, he may bring his problem to the center, where he can hire consultants to translate it into computer language.
Speed Test. First client of the center was Westinghouse Electric Corp., and its problem was how to design a new kind of transformer. The customary method is to build an experimental model and see how it works when parts of its design are changed slightly. This would cost, Westinghouse figures...
Most of the industrial answers are highly technical, having to do with aeronautical, chemical or electronic engineering. But they can be as down-to-earth as a speed test on next year's automobile design or a weight test on a design for a suspension bridge. A large soap...
Gog's boss is an electronic brain called Novac (Nuclear Operative Variable Automatic Computer), but Novac is a security risk. Into the brain an agent of The Enemy has built a secret radio receiver through which Novae can be indoctrinated with treasonable ideas beamed in from a jet plane...