Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gorski's major technical innovation has been the installation of the Management Information System, a computer which records and prints out all daily police activities, and is supposed to make police deployment and general crime prevention work more scientifically. "We have to equal out the work load among out personnel...
...proud to tick off items from the list--the administrative handbook, weekly staff meetings between the directors of all administrative departments, the Delta 2000 computer, centralizing the personnel office, and a whole host of gadgets and programs. All these items add up to a major effort to centralize, automate, computerize and economize administrative services at Harvard. When measured solely on a cost-effective basis, it is difficult to argue that Hall's efforts to date have not been successful--the use of the Delta 2000 computer for centralized monitoring and heating regulation; for instance, is supposed to be saving Harvard...
4) The onset of a post-industrial society. Perhaps the most portentous change, however, is the relative decline of manufacturing and the rise of a service economy. Just as a century ago, one began to see the change from an agrarian to an industrial society, so one can now see...
It's a tricky job, especially when freshmen don't bother to give complete data on the request form. Nevertheless, Young says that the barter system, which he claims is unique to Harvard, is the best possible method of matching roommates. "The whole job could be done by computer," Young...
As a practical start toward earthquake prediction, USGS is constructing a prototype network of automated sensing stations equipped with magnetometers, tiltmeters and seismographs in California's Bear Valley. They are also beginning to make measurements of radon in wells and electrical resistance in rock. Some of the data are...