Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vantress raises the dressing-out weight puts $30 million in the pockets of his customers. With an equal devotion to his job, Saglio recently decided that keeping chicken pedigrees in card indexes along with millions of measurement records involved the possibility of missing some choice genetic combinations. Now an IBM machine tabulates information on his birds. Tba machine decides which breeding rooster should go with which breeding...
...interpreting the six billion calculations made each week by the IBM 704 computer is carried on by a small number of mathematicians and upper-atmosphere specialists at Smithsonian, many of whom also lecture at the University. Fred L. Whipple, Director of the Smithsonian Observatory, is an expert on meteors and meteoric risk to satellites as well as optical tracking; Theodore E. Sterne, Associate5The basis of JACCHIA'S discovery of the direct relationship between solar radiation and the movement of the satellites is illustrated by these four lines. The top two plots show the acceleration of two earth satellites...
...commissions. An applicant needs no physical examination, simply signs a coupon in the ad and sends it in. Monthly premiums of $6.50 provide hospitalization benefits of up to $610 for each different illness incurred within a six-month span. After the details of an application are punched on IBM cards, the computer takes over. It prints the policy, monthly-payment cards, self-addressed envelopes and claim forms, cuts policy-processing costs to about $4 v. $12 for a regular policy...
...teachers have long been lured by more money in industry. With NBC affiliates donating the early half-hour on 149 network stations (151 next semester), the $1,112,000 project was financed by the Ford Foundation and hefty grants from industry (Bell Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, IBM, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Some 250 colleges jumped aboard, signed up 5,000 regular students, who pay an average $45 tuition and get from two to five hours of credit (depending on the college) if they pass their exams. The first-semester finals are due this week...