Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers, who has sought to weld newly registered Negroes into an effective bloc-voting machine, said that in at least three heavily Negro Delta counties the elections amounted to "outright robbery," even though federal observers were on hand to monitor the balloting...
Computers seem efficient, but are they really? To show just how well the electronic brains really work, U.C.L.A. Engineering Professor Gerald Estrin and a colleague, Dr. Bertram Bussell, have set up Project SEE (for Systems Efficiency Expert) and contracted with the Defense Department to monitor a 19-unit, nationwide computer network. Spying for SEE will be a $500,000 Sigma 7 computer, which will examine such computer problems as: how well computers translate instructions into their own language, how organized they are in storing similar bits of information close to one another, how often they unnecessarily repeat themselves in solving...
...assessment is yet possible. Given the funds available, suggests University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade, it might be better to concentrate on a few projects, rather than scattering money on more than a hundred. "There are so many programs," he says, "that there's no real way to monitor them and tell what they're doing. So we end up dribbling money into this or that, funding a program for a year or two, then dropping it." Daniel Moynihan, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, uses the axiom: "The more programs, the less impact...
...approaching-"closer than you think," says Deere's Research and Development Chief Gordon Millar-when farmers will cultivate the soil with inaudible sound waves, work fields by computer-controlled programs, use television to monitor their remote-con trolled machines. Another phenomenon in the not too distant future is square tomatoes, which, after all, could be more easily packaged by machine-and fit better in sandwiches...
...planned in the U.S., Japan and Russia. Geophysicists will place ultrasensitive instruments deep in the earth. In such studies, tiltmeters will measure shifts in the position of vast subsurface areas, and, ideally, laser devices will be able to measure micro scopic expansion and contraction of bedrock, while strain seismographs monitor the kind of subsurface stress and crust slippage that occurs in fault zones...