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...When these new machines realize their potential," says John Diebold, chairman of the Diebold Group, Inc., consultants in the computer field, "there will be a social effect of unbelievable proportions. This impact on society is still to come." Computermen have even been advised to get their machines out to "see life" in that society by setting up communications links between them and other computers in dispersed locations. Says R. M. Bloch, a vice president of Honeywell: "The computer that lacks an ability to communicate with the outside world is in danger of remaining an isolated marvel mumbling to itself...
Died. Albert Henry Diebold, 91, a founder in 1901 and president until 1941 of Sterling Drug, Inc., who began business in Wheeling, W. Va., and with brilliant marketing and an unerring eye for mergers parlayed Neuralgine, an analgesic, into a $250 million-a-year business (Novocain, Demerol, Bayer aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia); in Palm Beach...
...your July 5 issue you state, "Management Consultant John Diebold invented the very word automation." According to our best information, the word automation was first used by Mr. Del Harder, now retired but formerly vice president, manufacturing, of the Ford Motor Co. Mr. Harder is credited with coining the word automation to describe the way Ford was manufacturing automatically...
...While writing a Harvard report in 1951, Diebold decided to simplify automatization into automation, thereby coining his own word, but he learned later that the word was actually first used by Ford's Harder...
...Harvard Summer School lecture series will begin today with a speech given by A. Richard Diebold, Jr., assistant professor of Social Anthropology, Diebold will speak on "The Relevance of Linguistic Analysis to Behavorial Science" at 4 p.m. in Burr Hall...