Word: bertrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computers seem efficient, but are they really? To show just how well the electronic brains really work, U.C.L.A. Engineering Professor Gerald Estrin and a colleague, Dr. Bertram Bussell, have set up Project SEE (for Systems Efficiency Expert) and contracted with the Defense Department to monitor a 19-unit, nationwide computer network. Spying for SEE will be a $500,000 Sigma 7 computer, which will examine such computer problems as: how well computers translate instructions into their own language, how organized they are in storing similar bits of information close to one another, how often they unnecessarily repeat themselves in solving...
...Wilson, professor of Zoology, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, and B. F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, will discuss aggression and Konrad Lorenz's bookOn Aggression at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Bertram Hall Common Room...
Last winter a little-known magazine called Transaction charged that the President's State of the Union message was a barely recognizable description of the U.S. The message relied too heavily on economic bookkeeping, too little on social accounting, wrote Bertram M. Gross, professor of political science at Syracuse University. To reflect the quality as well as the quantity of American life. Gross said, the President should deliver an annual "Social Report" that deals in the round with the state of education, arts, crime and disease...
Once upon a time there was a shy little girl and her name was Beatrix. She lived with her Papa and her Mama and her brother Bertram in a grand house at No. 2 Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London, England. Beatrix was not permitted to have any friends, but she did have a dog, a doll, a pet rabbit, a governess, and her own dear little nursery room with strong shiny bars over the windows...
Predictably, the president of the printers' union, Bertram Powers, hailed the decision because, as he delicately put it, "it will enable us to meet the particular problems of the individual publisher." Just as predictably, John J. Gaherin, president of the Publishers Association -an organization whose very existence is threatened by the ruling-announced plans for an appeal, perhaps to the U.S. Supreme Court, which can accept or reject the case as it pleases. Though it was a unanimous 3-to-0 opinion, the lower-court judges were frankly uneasy. "I fear," wrote Judge Irving R. Kaufman, "that our decision...