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...brain was the newest electronic calculator, developed by International Business Machines Corp. and installed in Monsanto Chemical Co.'s St. Louis headquarters. To IBM, it was the "Model 702 Electronic Data Processing Machine." To Monsanto and awed visitors, it was simply "the giant brain." Seated at its control console, a man has at his command the computing ability of 25,000 trained mathematicians...
...THINK." IBM's new brain is a logical extension of the company's famed slogan, "THINK." In the age of giant electronic brains, IBM's President Thomas J. Watson Jr. is applying to machines the slogan which his father, IBM's Board Chairman Thomas J. Watson Sr., applied only to men. President Watson hopes to mechanize hundreds of processes which require the drab, repetitive "thought" of everyday business. Thus liberated from grinding routine, man can put his own brain to work on problems requiring a function beyond the capabilities of the machine: creative thought. Says Watson...
...IBM is not the only company with the idea of automating U.S. offices. In the fast-growing business equipment industry, such big firms as National Cash Register, Burroughs Corp. and Remington Rand are busy making everything from adding machines to the new electronic computers. But IBM is the biggest of all with 25% of the two billion dollar industry...
Guided Missiles: Britain openly admitted that it is behind the U.S.-and, presumably, the Soviet Union-in the development of ground-to-air guided missiles. But it considers itself well advanced in air-to-air guided weapons, and is also developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM) with hydrogen warheads...
Before, students using statistics in thesis had to use IBM machines in the various departments, all decentralized...