Word: avis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With STAR, controllers should rest easy. Built by a Lithuanian-born J.P.L. engineer named Algirdas Avižienis, 38, the computer consists of ten separate units, each designed to perform a specific function (computation, logic, communications, memory and monitoring). More important, some of the units always stand by as spares. Thus, if any of STAR'S working parts should falter, it can quickly mobilize a replacement...