Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fate of the earth after the fall out cleared is classified information, but it is no secret that the sophistication of the computer program that created the war game made a big hit with the brass. Says Lieut Colonel Robert Crissman of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command: "It exceeded our expectations...
...five-week session was the start of a $2.45 million Army project called Janus, after the two-faced god that guarded Rome in wartime. Beginning next year, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., which trains high-ranking officers for top command positions, will use a copy of the Janus program as a regular part of its ten-month curriculum. "Janus," says one of its Livermore admirers, "is light-years ahead of any Atari game...
...played on land pits the U.S. against forces modeled after the Soviets'. Two teams of players divide into separate rooms in Livermore's Combat Simulation Laboratory. Sitting at $100,000 battle stations jammed with the latest computer hardware, they slide plastic "pucks" across electronic graphics tablets to command the full paraphernalia of modern war: tanks and personnel carriers, jets and helicopters, artillery pieces chemical munitions and an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine...
...necessarily mean a corresponding failure of musical idiom. The quality of Rochberg's lyric invention is high, and the fast-moving sequences, such as the minstrel show, are handled with dashing technical assurance. Even the two scenes with the angel, ironic though they are, display a strong command of modern musical materials. Rochberg has issued a challenge in The Confidence Man, to both himself and other composers, a challenge to make modern music speak again in the language it inherited from the 18th and 19th centuries. Whether it can be done persuasively and unselfconsciously is still to be determined...
...sprawling by-the-numbers kit used to paint the dome of a new Renaissance chapel. There the enervated finger of post-industrial Adam is about to be plugged into the socket of divine science. One can even find a title for this vaulting masterpiece: CI. It stands for command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government and business to make faster and better decisions. What of the Big Brother potential? He admits the danger, but with...