Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Einhorn believes in the power of information to bring about changes in society, and he collects it assiduously through the use of a computer system that enables him to exchange ideas with people doing independent research the world over.
These big companies operate with a cold efficiency that astounds the oldtime booksellers, who often take a warm proprietary interest in their wares. Highly computerized Dalton, which carries about 30,000 titles in each shop, assigns every book a number; when the book is sold the number is entered through the cash register into a computer, which produces a weekly report on what every store in the chain has sold. Slow-moving titles are quickly culled. Most chains concentrate almost exclusively on bestsellers-novels, selfhelp, biographies and the like...
Beyond the fire-eater, the buskers and the tent circus on the cobblestone plaza of Paris' skeletal-modern Pompidou arts center, there is what looks like a subway entrance marked IRCAM. It leads down, four levels below, to the world's newest, most sophisticated center for musical experiment...
Music came late in the plans for the Pompidou, better known as the Beaubourg for the Paris locale where it looms. But when the French government decided in 1972 to enter the field of music research, it moved boldly to dominate it. In the U.S. there are a number of...
The various operations at IRCAM have started up over the past four years. There are always several composers working with computer scientists on expanding the horizons of sound. An ensemble of musicians who play conventional instruments is now complete. The final step was taken this month when Espace de Projection...