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The fact that Yale has ten upperclass living units as opposed to Harvard's eight--seven Houses and the Dudley Computer's Center--makes the intra program at New Haven slightly more expensive. The whole plan, including freshman dormitory sports, costs the Y.A.A. $25,000. Samborski says the inter-House...
¶In Los Angeles, the National Bureau o Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis started operating a new electronic calculator which in a mere four hours can solve 150 simultaneous algebraic equations nvolving 4,000,000 arithmetic operations. It can also perform 1,000,000 additions a minute and even...
When all the knobs are set, the operator presses a button. The brain of the computer starts thinking electronically, weighing all the forces that will affect the flight of the missile. When the machinery stops, the whole story of the flight is drawn as a curve on a sheet of...
According to Reeves and the Navy, this method is far more effective than building real missiles and firing them into real air. When the simulated flights turn out well, a metal-and-fire missile can be built from figures supplied by the settings of the computer's knobs.
Rocket Seeker. Project Cyclone has solved many problems before they ever came up in actuality. It advised the Navy, for instance, not to try to launch certain jet fighters from the deck of a pitching carrier. The computer proved that they were much too likely to go in the drink...