Word: marked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missed opportunities subsequently put Cornell at the controls. Defenseman Peter Shier notched his 19th goal of the year on a pill from the left point that snuck under the cross bar. Nethery and Mark Weiss, who had two goals and three assists on the evening, got the assists...
Awarded a bye in the first round, the Crimson number one team did not see action until Saturday when they ousted Northern Jersey, 4-1. John Havens, Ned Bacon, Mark Panarese and John Stubbs all swept their contests, winning 3-0. Harvard's Clancy Nixon dropped a close match...
...strictly a solo effort, as the rest of the competition dropped out at or below the 14-foot mark, leaving Stiles to wage a one-on-one battle with the bar for nearly an hour. Three near misses at 16-6 prevented him from setting a University record...
...died in 1871, he had managed to put together just a few small parts; only his elaborate drawings provide a clue to his visionary machine. Indeed, when Harvard and IBM scientists rediscovered Babbage's work in the 1940s while they were building a pioneering electromechanical digital computer called Mark I, they were astonished by his foresight. Said the team leader, Howard Aiken: "If Babbage had lived 75 years later, I would have been...
...sounded, in the words of Physicist-Author Jeremy Bernstein, "like a roomful of ladies knitting." The noise came from the rapid opening and closing of thousands of little switches, and it represented an enormous information flow and extremely long calculations for the time. In less than five seconds, Mark I could multiply two 23-digit numbers, a record that lasted until ENIAC'S debut two years later. But how? In part, the answer lies in a beguilingly simple form of arithmetic: the binary system. Instead of the ten digits (0 through 9) of the familiar decimal system, the computer...