Word: engstrom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's rugged Taos Canyon, Ranger George E. Engstrom, 47, prowled through one of Carson National Forest's 22 picnic and campgrounds. The camp site was spotless. One reason was that Ranger Engstrom has a reputation for taking litterbugs to court...
Other provisional members include Henri de Bayle '59, Pierre Lambert 1B, John Trent '58. and William Engstrom...
...color competitors were enthusiastic but vague. The TV industry's National Television System Committee reported that it was hard at work defining the standards needed for a compatible system. RCA's Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom said that, once FCC approves the standards, RCA "will immediately put into effect plans to mass-produce color TV receivers and tri-color tubes." Chromatic Television Laboratories, Inc., which says it can produce a tube to receive black & white as well as color from either the CBS or the RCA system, complained that the defense order had forced a shutdown of its production...
Some scientists say that electronic apparatus may eventually learn to think. Some say no. Dr. E. W. Engstrom, head of the Laboratories Division of Radio Corporation of America, belongs to the yes or gee-whiz faction...
...Said Engstrom last week at a Chicago conference: "Electronics, with its unlimited ability to count, remember and control ... is ... literally asking to take over certain duties which have been performed by men's minds-thinking processes. What man can conceive, comprehend and perform, he will be able to construct in electronic systems to do his bidding, and the electronic performance will be at least as effective as the human performance . . . The electronic system will sense, react, interpret, compute, act and control. It will do this using what is the equivalent of thinking...