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At last the patient gets to see a physician. The man in white has the case history and lab reports before him. At the plaintive, immemorial question, "What do you think the trouble is, Doc?", the physician simply presses more buttons. The recorded data are fed into an electronic computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Automation | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

The group left the "glass house" of the exhibition and passed a voting-booth arrangement where visitors can use American voting machines to choose their favorite display. Said Khrushchev coldly: "I have no interest in that." He ignored the models in the fashion show, brushed aside the RAMAC computer that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

At Florida State's "Math Camp" in Tallahassee, the boys took time for dormitory bridge. One evening David Hackney, 14, of Daytona Beach, after bidding seven spades, laid down his 13 spades. The ensuing uproar was capped when Edward Root, 16, of St. Petersburg, jotted a formula on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Summer Scholars | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

This high praise from famed Caltech was no polite gesture. M.I.T. began in 1861 as a land-grant professional school for engineers. When Seattle-born "J" Stratton took his electrical engineering degree there in 1923, its aims were still basically the same. Last year, under Acting President Stratton-who stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Than a Referee | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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