Word: computerization
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Much cheaper are the "test flights" performed for the Navy by the Reeves Instrument Corp., subsidiary of Claude Neon Inc. Reeves's rockets do not fly out of the heavily guarded laboratory on Manhattan's 91st Street. They are only electronic signals in an analogue computer's...
That year they had 62 students, the next year 78. By last week the Foreign Student Summer Project seemed to be a solid M.I.T. institution. Among its alumni: a West German who is building Bavaria's first electronic computer, a Norwegian who has discovered a new method of making...
Computing machines are getting brainier and brainier. Latest and brainiest is SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer), built in Washington by the National Bureau of Standards.
Nearly all the computermen are worried about the effect the machines will have on society. But most of them are not so pessimistic as Wiener. Professor Aiken thinks that computers will take over intellectual drudgery as power-driven tools took over spading and reaping. Already the telephone people are installing...
Some practical computermen scoff at such picturesque talk, but others recall odd behavior in their own machines. Robert Seeber of I.B.M. says that his big computer has a very human foible: it hates to wake up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and reach...