Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The most important thing about computers is something that few of the people who think they aren't directly concerned with computers realize. This is the almost unplumbable truth that the computer is capable of carrying out ANY numerical calculation. And they don't call mathematics the universal language for...
The computer is thus the ultimate machine. It can do anything any machine could do, so in one sense it is the end of progress. All of history before the construction of ENIAC in 1944 was but the slow gestation of the monster that is now taking its first halting...
Of course, that potential is still in the Stone Age. As of now, a computer is limited by its program and so by its programmer. But machines are already showing the capacity to teach themselves, to fill gaps in their programs and come up with original solutions. Furthermore, programming becomes...
Their most secure foothold is in science. They are telling us things about molecular structure and aero-dynamics. In hard-to-quantify sciences like linguistics or psychology they are partly hamstrung; they can't tell the difference between sentences like "Fruit flies like a banana" and "Time flies like an...
THE COMPUTERS that have fore-gone the real world for experimentation in the laboratory have gained exotic accomplishments. A plaque and a trophy sit atop the PDP-6 computer in M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They were won in chess tournaments. Even psychiatry is tainted. An M.I.T. computer offers comfort...