Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Computer-on-a-chip may become even faster
Miraculous as it may be, the tiny silicon "chip" that is at the heart of today's electronics revolution has certain drawbacks. Crammed with thousands of individual circuits and components, this computer-on-a-chip is only about a quarter the size of a thumbnail. Yet despite the minuscule...
Now the wizards at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., who launched the microelectronic age with the invention of the transistor 31 years ago, have broken that speed limit. Bell scientists have developed a way of at least doubling the velocity at which electrons race through tiny chips. Their...
One of the few geniuses in the social sciences," says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein. 'The one man in the world who has come closest to being a Renaissance man," opines Richard Cyert, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). These were some of the reactions to the...
Simon was brought up in Milwaukee and earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago in 1943. For the past two decades he has been a leader in the drive to create artificial intelligence through computer technology. Says he: "My mind works according to laws and mechanisms...