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Three Chimps First. With all these pressing medical problems to be solved, why does man feel himself impelled toward, the dark unfathom'd caves of outer space? For one thing, despite his physical and emotional inadequacies, he is still a space-saving, weight-saving gadget compared with any electronic...
The electronic innards of the Census Bureau's Univac computer whirred last week, and out popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But...
Last week the National Bureau of Standards told how it is teaching its SEAC (Standards Electronic Automatic Computer) to see. First step was to give SEAC a photocell and a simple device that enables it to scan a photograph and store it in its memory as 30,000 bits (yes...
But the bureau has high hopes for SEAC. Step by step, like a once-blind person learning to see, the computer is learning to recognize patterns. It can count dark or light objects in a photograph, measure the area of each and report how many are bigger than a specified...
When SEAC has gained enough experience, the bureau hopes that it will do many important seeing jobs faster and better than humans can. One project is to make it produce contour maps from air photographs. It will do such monotonous jobs 24 hours a day without getting tired or bored...