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In the past, economists, unable to handle the huge masses of empirical data necessary for such projects, tended to oversimplify and to build "display cabinets without displays," comments Leontief. But the invention and development of the computer has lessened the reluctance to work problems which require heavy computation.
The student put to the test at the University of Illinois was 8½ ft. tall, 10 ft. wide at the shoulders, and packed with green-faced cathode-ray tubes and little red neon lights. The name was ORDVAC (Ordnance Variable Automatic Computer), and ORDVAC proved remarkably handy with figures...
Leading feature of ORDVAC is its capacious and accurate memory, as important to an electronic computer as to a human brain. ORDVAC's memory dwells in 40 cathode-ray tubes, which look like small television tubes. On the face of each flash 1,024 glowing green dots, and at...
The Reverend John W. Ellison announced today that he has received a grant of $3,250 from the American Philosophical Society to do a textual study of the Gospel of St. Luke on the University's latest computer. Construction on Mark IV will probably be completed in the spring.
In the wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery...