Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical problem in education would appear like this: We are given letter grades in four coursed for a certain number of individuals. We would like to pool these letter grades to form a scale of scholastic achievement. Since the distribution of grades in the several courses are quite different, even more variable must be considered in the problem...
...speech entitled Physiology and Computational Devices, William J. Crosier, professor of General Physiology, cautions that so-called "thinking machines" such as the Mark III can never take the place of the human mind. No machine, he points out, could over not up a problem or analyze the results obtained through its own calculations...
...fact, the setting up of the problem which poses the greatest problem for researchers...
Council officers, however, have extended a special invitation to men interested in working with the Council or on a committee. Under the present system committees, composed of a council member and a number of students study a particular problem in detail during the year and make a report on which the council can take action...
...memory system" capable of storing 64,000 digits and leading a computing machine through a complex mathematical problem of 4000 steps was shown at the unveiling of Harvard University's new Mark III calculating machine September...