Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BATTLE FOR INFORMATION. The longest court trial in U.S. history has just entered its third year of testimony, and the end of the prosecution case is not yet at hand. Perhaps this fall, defendant International Business Machines Corp. will begin submitting evidence to refute U.S. Justice Department claims that the...
Ironically, the IBM case would not have been possible before the advent of the computer. The sheer numbers involved are staggering. IBM supplied an estimated 60 million pages of documents and other computer concerns provided 115 million more. The courtroom has now seen 4 million of those pages, through 50...
But the three-choice computer program the College instituted this spring maximized the number of freshmen sent to their first choice house. As a result, the system permitted "strategizing"--ranking Houses in other than true preference order--and freshmen rose to the challenge with the enthusiasm of gambling addicts.
One suite of Yard freshmen conducted their own survey of freshmen to ascertain relative House popularities and then simulated the housing office's lottery procedure with their own computer program in order to plan their optimum course of action.
The other 13 per cent is concentrated in banking and financem, teaching, journalism and computer programming.