Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the alarming trend toward larger and more complicated machines, there are a few lingering signs of hope. Section men have not yet turned in their red pencils for oximeters and the local banks still have people behind the counters. But there are rumors that IBM has a thinking machine lobbying in the Senate...
...might put a number one in the margin; if married, a two. Other relevant material is coded in a similar manner, and the application is sent to the General Service Office in the basement of University Hall, where these numbers are fed into an always disinterested, but never inaccurate IBM machine. It quickly belches forth a white card containing all the information which the applicant had so pain-stakingly provided...
...step for a computer to venture from the relatively precise fields of mathematics and physics into the more nebulous realm of language translation. But the IBM scientists and Georgetown University linguists who had helped set up the experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival...
...present time, the ranks of bank workers number only about 400,000. What with the increases in branch banking, consumer credit, and government savings bonds, bank staffs will have to expand IBM machines...
...course, Gray, "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Not "wind." I followed with Bartlett's quotations, with 52 instances of "world" followed by "is" and not once with "are." I politely called his attention to the fact that Merriam-Webster is hyphenated and that his new IBM electric typewriter had skipped the hyphen...