Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Oskar Morgenstern, 75, a brilliant Princeton University economist who shook the foundations of classical economic theory with his work in the fields of econometrics and the theory of games (Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, co-authored with John von Neumann; The Limits of Economics); of cancer; in Princeton...
Soviet officials seem unhappy with their computer industry. Earlier this year, a vice chairman of the state planning committee complained in an article in Pravda that just about everything was wrong with the computer effort, including underutilization of machines, missing printout attachments and poorly motivated technicians and managers.
To make up for its shortcomings, Moscow sometimes turns abroad for ideas and does not always use ethical methods to get them. Development of the Ryad series of computers began when KGB agents evidently spirited away an IBM 360 from West Germany in the late 1960s. In The Netherlands, where...
At the moment, the park is dominated by biomedical, computer and chemical research. The Environmental Protection Agency's air-pollution study center, which investigates such things as the reaction of blood cells to gases, is in the park. The Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology is developing new methods for...
Driving, Couture suggests, should ultimately become a system of controlled reflexes. Developing the reflexes is "not a matter of guts, but of brains. Ideally you sit behind the wheel like a computer." Safety is the first priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track...