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McVity indicated that the emphasis is moving away from random job placement in favor of a "training in skills" and the subsequent "placing of these skills" in particular jobs. The job-training courses being offered by the College range from computer programming to bartending and make this policy of "specialised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Work Requires Skill | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

To beat the language barrier between man and machine. Itek has, in effect, hitched the digital computer to the draftsman's stylus. With a photoelectric light pen, the operator of an EDM can formulate engineering problems graphically (instead of reducing them to equations) on a console that looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Beating the Language Barrier | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Already Itek has had a couple of nibbles for the EDM (anticipated cost: $500,000 for outright purchase; $2,000 to $3,000 for monthly rental), hopes to be ready to deliver the machine within twelve months. Visitors to Itek's Lexington lab have predicted the EDM will not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Beating the Language Barrier | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Of ten offset press units, only four were ready; and those four, now taxed beyond capacity, began to falter. About 15 miles away, in General Electric's Information Processing Center, an electronic computer, programmed to read and sort the Journal's classified ads at high speed, transmitted indecipherable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birth Pangs in Phoenix | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

French Composers Pierre Barbaud, 50, and Roger Blanchard, 43, have a peculiar ambition: they want to make composers obsolete. They have worked long and hard to create a composing machine as versatile as the one that swamped the masses with mollifying melodies in George Orwell's fantasy, 1984. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Machine Closes In | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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