Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before you begin reading, go ask your roommate if you can borrow his pocket calculator. You'll probably need it as you peruse this column, because Mark Zbikowski and Tim Matthews aren't your average pigskin prophets. While members of the Cube sit in silent revery and appeal to divine...
Zbikowski put in a "man-month" tinkering with his program and then went to Lew Law, the director of the Science Center, who liked the idea and gave Zbikowski an independent computer account.
Both Zbikowski and Matthews are right about 75 per cent of the time when it comes to predicting the winning team, and beat the spread around 60 per cent of the time. Matthews began using the computer to make his predictions as a freshman, at the promptng of his father...
Matthews recalls that his father originally used a less accurate methods known as the "modified simplex method," which is a linear programming technique, because he lacked access to a computer.
The trouble has been greatly aggravated by Carter's televised assault on the oilmen who oppose his energy program as profiteers out to "rob" American consumers and stage "the biggest rip-off in history" (TIME, Oct. 24). Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as...