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If man's diet were determined by strictly scientific considerations, what would it cost him to live? Brown University researchers fed the problem to an IBM 650 electronic computer, last week reported the answer: 21? a day. Caring nothing for variety or any other of life's spices...
With less culinary than mathematical skill, the researchers could not make the stuff into a palatable meal. Even a laboratory dog was reluctant to put the mess away. The only conclusion: a computer could live cheaper than a human because it has no taste buds.
With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10...
To Manhattan last week went two eager makers of business machines with audacious plans to challenge the International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines...
Using germanium diodes instead of tubes," the Gamma 3 proved a versatile workhorse computer, led Machines Bull engineers to design the new Gamma 60 line. The Gamma 60s, coming out in January, are the last word in "simultaneous" computer design, are as far ahead of the Gamma 35, says Callies...