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International Business Machines Corp. claimed last week that its newest electronic computer is the smartest built so far. Named NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Calculator) and soon to be delivered to the Navy, it takes only thirty-one millionths of a second to multiply two 13-digit numbers...
Coach Hal Ulen said Kiphuth--who was never one for holding his boys back--may try to keep the Crimson in single-digit figures. But, even if the Elis were to sweep every first place, which they may do, it is probable that the Crimson will score somewhere in the 'teens. Ulen's squad should pick up seconds in at least three events--the dive, the 100-yard free-style sprints, and the 200-yard breast-stroke--and there's an outside possibility for an upset in anyone of them...
Faster Adder. National Cash Register Co. brought out a new adding machine with a "Live Keyboard" that cuts down hand motions 35%. With all the keys electrified, the machine eliminates the add bar by automatically listing each figure, can add a ten-digit number in a single operation (compared to two to eleven operations on standard machines). Price depending on the size of the keyboard...
...Audrey." Scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories have tried for years to build a machine that will "understand" human speech. First step was to transform spoken words into dancing patterns on a cathode-ray tube. Now they have built "Audrey" (for automatic digit recognition), an electronic telephone girl that recognizes ten spoken digits, 1 through 0. Hooked up to an ordinary telephone, Audrey listens to a spoken telephone number and matches its digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal...
Each one of these dots can hold what computer men call a "bit" (short for binary digit) of information. If charged, it is considered a "one"; if uncharged, it is a "zero." By arranging ones and zeros in a code, a string of numbers, letters or words can be stored in dot form (2,500 bits is the equivalent of 69 words). When the crystal has heard its lesson once, it remembers for a week or more...