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Doubting & Digging. "Actually, we set out to disprove the theory when we started," said M.I.T. Geology Professor Patrick M. Hurley, 55, adding that "Harvard and M.I.T. have been hotbeds of geological conservatism for years." Hurley and his colleagues became interested in the theory at a 1964 scientific meeting in London...
Clannish, often introverted, programmers labor over problems that demand logical thinking (though not necessarily mathematical background) and painstaking attention to detail-yet defy solution by any standard or scientifically disciplined approach. "Some call it an art and some call it black magic," says A. W. Carroll, RCA's manager...
The software snarl caught computer manufacturers underprepared, partly because the uses of computers proliferated beyond expectations and partly because the third-generation machines required wholly new and vastly more complicated programs than earlier models. "Sometimes," says Executive Vice President Paul Rice of Chicago's Daniel D. Howard Associates, "people...
Transit operates on a simple principle: once a satellite's location is known, two calculations of its range from any ship will determine position at sea. Under the Navy system, three Transit satellites circle the globe in 105-minute polar orbits at an altitude of 700 miles. Since the...
Until now, only a few naval and scientific vessels used the Transit system, largely because the shipboard equipment is so expensive. Custom-built, each receiver costs between $21,000 and $35,000, compared with $5,000 to $10,000 for a LORAN rig. In addition, each ship needs a $25...