Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The newspaper ad placed by Honeywell Inc. to attract computer technicians was a high-class bit of copy and featured drawings of those two great authors of Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1967). The late Bertrand Russell? Hardly. At 96, he is very much...
In Los Angeles, lawyers completed the selection of a jury of twelve to try Sirhan Bishara Sirhan for the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy. Technicians are heavily represented among the eight men and four women chosen. The jury includes two computer programmers, three telephone-company workers, a gas-company employee...
One graduate student in Applied Mathematics claimed that the IBM machines were only useful for cataloguing and problem solving. Students doing more complex research work use the PDP 1, a computer not owned by the Center he said.
Professor Bossert said that the Computing Center was forced to be conservative in its choice of machines, since it depends for funds on the money students pay for computer time. It is forced to buy instruments which it is positive will be used a good deal, Bossert said.
The Computing Center now has six computers, five of which come from IBM. It owns only two of these, and will sell one back to IBM when it rents the new machine. The Center bought the old computer at an educational discount of 60 per cent. The new one will...