Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The key to the new revolution is "numerical control." The new machine needs an operator to show it only once how to do an intricate job. In the process its computer brain jots down symbolic numerical notes, thereafter can work automatically from "memory"-or learn a new task just as...
¶ An electronic telephone exchange. Now being field-tested by Bell Labs in Morris, Ill., it handles calls 1,000 times faster than present equipment, commits to its electronic memory a list of numbers each customer frequently calls, provides private, two-digit numbers for each to save dialing time. Businessmen...
¶A language-translating computer. Built by IBM, it translates Russian into English, has a vocabulary of 55,000 words. Its first assignment: translating each day's Pravda for the Air Force. It works at a rate of 1,800 words per minute, turns out rough but readable English...
The Computer Is Born. It was the transistor, with its minuscule size and swiftness, which made possible the modern computer, perhaps the second greatest postwar new product. While shrinking in size, computers have vastly increased their speed and ability to handle problems. The fastest, IBM's $13.5 million STRETCH...
In fact, computer progress has outrun man's ability to prepare magnetic-tape instructions complex enough to keep the brains busy. The ideal computer would be one that operators can instruct verbally. Bell plans to build one able to hear and obey some 50 words.