Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Crucial Maneuver. It was indeed. In 1966, the Russians had made the initial soft landing on the moon, but their equipment at the time was relatively primitive-a simple sphere covered with balsa wood that was ejected just before its carrier rocket smashed into the lunar surface. After bouncing and...
The theme of the book is Heinlein's version of how to be a woman. It would be presumptous of me to attempt to analyze this; perhaps, if it were worth it, a woman could deal with it. But the male chauvinism in it is so overt, so crude, and...
However, Tuttle and Popek are not simply out to make war on computers. "We don't want to ruin the computer." Popek said, "We're just trying to put things back into perspective."
Both use computers extensively in their GSAS work, and Popek is currently writing a thesis exploring computer science and its applications in medical information systems. He said that computer mistakes in vaccine classification, for example, are just as numerous as credit systems mistakes, but the results are often fatal.
The two realize that dissemination of ways to foil computers could result in misuse of the information, but according to Tuttle, "It's a risk we have to take" in getting people to recognize the problems of computer fallibility and computer misuse.