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Simulated Nations. Wright-Patterson's electronic "air war simulator," developed by Brigadier General Leighton I. Davis, head of the Air Force's Institute of Technology, is based on a rarefied kind of mathematics: the Von Neumann theory of games. It is essentially an analog computer (a tangle of...
The missile's first flights are generally made on a calculating machine, such as the REAC (Reeves Instrument Corp.) analogue computer used by CalTech at the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena. The performance characteristics of the missile's components go into this brainy machine in...
The leading authority on the subject, Dr. Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories, believes that a computer can play-theoretically-a perfect (unbeatable) game of chess. But on the practical side, no existing or projected computer is fast enough to make the calculations. In planning a typical 40-move...
In a recent issue of Britain's Nature, Dr. J. Bronowski of the Central Research Establishment of the National Coal Board takes issue with Dr. Shannon. A chess-playing computer, he says, could be made to learn by experience just as a human being does. It could be given...
Thus Glenn Edward Swanson, a slim, nervous man with an autocratic air and computer-like mind, described how he got into the coil business in a Chicago loft 15 years ago. In its first year, his Standard Coil Products Co. barely broke even. Five years later, it was worth only...