Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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"The Robot Revolution" [Dec. 8] graphically illustrates a couple of phenomenal achievements-microcomputers and computer imaging-that came out of the space program. Americans who have been grumbling for years that the only thing we got out of the space program was a bunch of rocks should have their calculators...
Despite the overall dour situation, U.S. economy in 1980 showed some pockets of surprising strength and While the Midwest and the auto were suffering depression-like areas of New England and the Coast, where the computer industry other high technology firms have plants, hardly felt the slump. Investors who would...
Atlanta's new tower has become a laboratory for energy-saving devices. A computer automatically shuts off all lights at 6 p.m. unless instructed to leave some on. Advanced sodium-vapor light fixtures focus illumination on desks instead of dispersing the glow throughout the room. This alone should cut...
For a while Berlow worked in a factory, drove a truck, and tried to convince Harvard that he should finish his undergraduate degree program. Giving up, finally, he finished his B.A. at Boston University, switching from his Harvard concentration--political science--to music. He now works in an MIT laboratory...
In the past, a speculative boom in new issues has always been followed by a crash. In the late 1960s investors rushed to buy electronics stocks, and in the early 1970s new computer firms were the rage. Both markets ultimately collapsed. Recalls Stanley Pratt of Venture Capital Journal: "Then two...