Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
...other exhibits are war clubs, blowguns, wooden drums, flutes and grinding stones. Beside each object from the Americas is its Oriental counterpart. The people on opposite sides of the great ocean even shared, and share still, a peculiar vice: chewing narcotic plant materials mixed with lime to release the alkaloids. In southeastern Asia the substance chewed is betel nut; in Peru (where no betel grows) it is coca leaves, the source of cocaine. The little gourds to hold the lime and the decorated spatulas for dipping it out are almost the same in both widely separated regions...