Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...computing machine, Bessie is old: she has been steadily at work since 1944. And she is not the brightest of her breed. Compared to her children and grandchildren (one of whom, Harvard's Mark III -see cover-lives on the floor below in Harvard's Computation Laboratory), she is dim-witted and slow. But Bessie is a progenetrix, a sort of mechanical Eve. By proving what computing machines could do, she started one of the liveliest developments in modern science...
...insides of big, enormously complicated radio sets. Among their thousands of vacuum tubes runs a tangled web of fine, insulated wire. On their panels lights flash mysteriously: red lights and white lights dancing like motes in the sunlight as the numbers flow. Harvard's newest machine, Mark III, is probably the handsomest. It was built for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, and it looks as spruce and shipshape as a naval officer. At work, it roars louder than an admiral...
These human question-askers are sure to lag farther & farther behind the question-answering machines. Mark II, the first calculator built at Harvard for the Navy, is ten times as fast as Bessie. Mark III is 25 times as fast as Mark II and 250 times as fast as Bessie. Machines now abuilding will be faster still. Says Professor Aiken, head of Harvard's Computation Laboratory: "We'll have to think up bigger problems if we want to keep them busy...
...antiphonal chorus, the author of Born Yesterday has portrayed a squalid world of heels and down-at-heels, of furnished rooms and finished lives. The central story, which sounds the most comforting note, begins as Boy-Meets-Girl in Act I, ends as Boy-Mates-Girl in Act III...
Last week in East St. Louis, III. (pop. 75,000), Jim Crow lost another tattered feather. The school board ordered an end to the practice (also followed by many smaller towns in southern Illinois) of segregating Negro children in the public schools...