Word: computerizing
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Getting the Figure. Partly as a result of the paradox, questions were raised about the accuracy of the statistics. To get them, the Census Bureau makes a monthly sampling of 35,000 households in 330 areas specially selected to conform with national economic and population patterns. Interviewers check 75,000...
TWO FOR THE PRIZE OF ONE, headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was...
Such advances in the flexibility of the telephone are the result of a $25 million 50-year research effort; it produced a completely new electronic switching system that works 1,000 times faster than current dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets...
Helpful ERMA. The Bank of America aided by the Stanford Research Institute' started out by developing what it calls ERMA-Electronic Recording Machine Accounting. General Electric put the sys tem together, hitching components from National Cash Register Co. and Pitney-Bowes to its own computer, which it programed to...
Supplementing their human talent, all three networks were picking electronic brains: ABC was back again with Univac; NBC had something called the RCA 501; CBS had turned to the IBM 7090. CBS and ABC got off to an erratic start, on the basis of too-early returns, with their brains...