Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Kennedy, according to a high official, "a lot of people kibitzed who didn't have operational responsibility." By comparison, Johnson prefers to deal almost exclusively with the men who carry the load...
...clear pictures televised from Ranger spacecraft have brought man closer and closer to the surface of the moon. But for an advanced step in lunar explorations-a first comparison between the moon's crust and its invisible interior-scientists have now abandoned telescope and camera and turned to the computer...
...comparison to Brandeis, Harvard has less faculty student participation in civil rights, and less administrative patronage. Brandeis is also smaller than Harvard. And event the Brandeis project seems to hold the danger of a mass of academically-oriented people "organizing" a local community...
Learning About Life. Most scientists now agree that too much was made in the early days of the apparent similarities between computers and the human brain. The vacuum tubes and transistors of computers were easy to compare to the brain's neurons-but the comparison has limited validity. "There is a crude similarity," says Honeywell's Bloch, "but the machine would be at about the level of an amoeba." The neurons, which are the most important cells in the brain, number some 10 billion, and each one communicates with the others by as many as several hundred routes...
...computers in the U.S. and another 3,000 in Western Europe, where industry and laboratories are just beginning to computerize. The payoff: 74% of the U.S. computer market, a dominance that leads some to refer to the industry as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs." The dwarfs, small only by comparison with giant IBM: Sperry Rand, RCA, Control Data, General Electric, NCR, Burroughs, Honeywell. The computers have also spawned the so-called "software" industry, composed of computer service centers and independent firms that program machines and sell computer time (for as little as $10 an hour) to businesses that...