Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Henry S. Dyer '28, Director of the Office of Tcats, has a wondrous machine. Exame go into a little slot, the machine grumbles, sputters, coughs, and hiccups out the tests completely corrected. During the current examination period Dyer's IBM gadget is grading Economics 1, Psychology 1, Social Relations 1a, Biology 1, and sections of nearly all language finals...
Meanwhile, at University Hall, the mechanical difficulties seemed to be contagious. Late Saturday, one of two IBM calculators blew a main pin while sorting exams and clattered to a stop. Sunday afternoon its twin came up with the same complaint and abruptly creased to tabulate exam results...
...months, banks of IBM machines in Manhattan sorted out the answers. The completed TIME study will be published in book form in the fall; not until then will college graduates named Adams or Zabrisky be able to compare themselves with the Farbsteins, Farleys and Farmers. But by last week Hubert Kay, author of the forthcoming study, had this much to report...
Termed "Mark HI" by the staff of the Computation Laboratory, the mechanical brain follows closely on the heels of the originals IBM automatic calculator and the recent "Mark II," now in the process of testing at Gordon McKay labs...
Although the tests measured aptitudes in 20 fields, the 248 who took the tests will receive results in only 10 because of the immense amount of clerical work necessary, Dyer said. When the tests will again be given next spring, the Office expects to correct them by IBM machines, he added...