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...analog devices like slide rules and differential gears, or they computed them digitally, using the on-off action of slow-moving electromagnetic telephone switches. ENIAC, by contrast, was the first digital computer both to store and to process information with vacuum tubes; as a result, it was able to perform calculations 1,000 times as fast as its electromechanical predecessors. "I was convinced that you could produce great speeds electronically if you put your mind to it," says Eckert. "ENIAC proved that this...
Exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums--long on the rise throughout the nation--have recently driven more than 250 doctors in eastern Massachusetts community hospitals to the point of refusing to accept new patients or to perform surgery...
...fixing case. Hoping to reduce his automobile-insurance rates, Brown had asked a motor vehicle bureau employee to delete a pair of speeding tickets from the department's computer system. He was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $2,000, placed on four years' probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. He also resigned. Thus Brown lost a $73,000-a-year job to save some $400 worth of insurance premiums, a clear signal that, at least for him, computer crime does...
Although professional singers will perform the solos, members of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Collegium Musicum will form the chorus during the April performances...
Several students who will perform the piece yesterday praised its message, although they said it is very difficult to sing...