Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The computer community is generally displeased with both the Penatgon's decision to disconnect the "mail bridges" that connect the two networks and the fact that Pentagon officials did not announce its decision to system users.
Experts said yesterday that they expect the Pentagon this weekend to restore the communication links between the military's unclassified computer network and a comparable one used by research universities that it severed recently.
Until then, users on the two systems cannot communicate with each other, and the messages they try to send will be put on hold, bogging down the electronic communication channels, according to Clifford Stoll, a computer security expert visiting at Harvard.
But until recently America's Team was able to overcome this handicap. The mysterious Cowboy computer and superb scouting staff annually picked those diamonds-in-the-rough, like cornerback Everson Walls, who other teams overlooked.
In the modern era, however, a number of composers have once again begun using mathematical techniques to compose music. Norton Lecturer John Cage, who pioneered in this area, is famed for using randomness and probability formulas (often generated by computer) to determine pitch and rhythm.