Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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You see, Dawkins writes, there is this civilization 200 light years away. They want to spread their culture to distant worlds. So they assemble everything they want to say into one huge unbroken message, and then broadcast it out into space. The message is picked up by this huge computer...
"Just as the Andromedans had to have a computer on Earth to take day-to-day decisions for them," Dawkins writes, "our genes have to build a brain."
In some better-equipped centers (e.g., Fort Worth, Denver, Kansas City), a computer is also keeping its unblinking eye on the action. If two of the little boxes come within two minutes of each other on a collision course, the computer, keeping track of the heading and speed, makes both...
So far, at least, Carter's human rights campaign has not yielded any significant positive results. TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark reports from Moscow that the White House rhetoric "has not demonstrably discouraged the Soviets from cracking down on dissidents. Although ailing Dr. Mikhail Shtern was released from a Ukrainian...
This year's form permitted freshmen only three choices. After maximizing first choices, the housing office computer goes quickly through second and third choices--and then randomly assigns any roommate groups who could not be placed in one of the three to a remaining unfilled House.