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Remington Rand's electronic calculator, Univac (see RADIO & TV). But the Detroit Times did better with Univac's cousin UDEC (Unitized Digital Electronic Computer). By carefully feeding UDEC the vote from key districts, the Times predicted that Democrat Patrick McNamara would win over Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, even...
Brains & Plastic. With peace, Goodyear has pushed its diversification even harder. It now does a booming plastics business with a whole line of products for shoes, luggage, floor coverings and furniture. Goodyear also makes rubberized asphalt, has gone into the electronics business, and turns out an electronic computer called the...
Dr. Von Neumann is one of the masterminds behind many electronic brains that extrapolate election figures, coordinate weather data, and work out staggering mathematical problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer...
Curtice has a Farleyesque memory for names, stores up facts and figures like a Univac computer. Says one associate: "You'd better not tell him something one day and something else another day, even if it's a year later. But if you're working like hell...
So Mr. Ellison went to Harvard's Computation Laboratory to find whether the Mark IV could straighten out St. Luke. The mathematicians who serve the great computer decided that the Biblical problem was "realistic" and told Mr. Ellison how; to translate parts of the Gospel into mathematical language that...