Word: puter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deferred Vote. Although details remain to be worked out, an agreement along these lines would probably allow the Pentagon to acquire the first two missile sites, in Montana and North Da kota, and install two sets of radars - Perimeter-Acquisition Radar and Missile-Site Radar - along with the com puter network needed for processing information on incoming enemy missiles...
...mellower moments, Norris seemed content to let Watson's IBM hold the overwhelming lead: "I want Control Data to be the Ford of the com puter industry." Though few people expect that IBM will be broken up, Control Data's suit may force the giant to back up a step or two. At the very least, it may prevent premature announcements of computers that are not quite ready to live up to expectations...
Some time in the '70s, most com puter men predict, today's software knot should be untangled, partly by a vast expansion of computer schools and partly by more automation. Computer companies are straining to concoct programs that write other programs. Thus they foresee the day when a few standardized reels of tape will begin to replace programmers at the simpler levels. Still, few in the industry expect competent technicians to face unemployment. If today's pattern holds, every new triumph in computer technique will only fortify the demand for wider applications. The saturation point for computers...
...Army two computers that perform the most tedious and time-consuming steps in map making. By scanning pairs of serial photos, the computers can measure heights, prepare charts showing altitude contours, automatically correct for parallax displacements and other distortions. e DRESS FIT. IBM has introduced a com puter system that can, from one original design, cut clothes patterns in different sizes. A moving mechanical arm traces the outline of the master design, then adjusts it for all sizes...
California's Fletcher Jones, the com puter programmer, believes that the fu ture belongs to "brokers in technology" -young men with the savvy in both business and technology to organize and manage the work of scientists. Say he: "Look for opportunities in the very newest technologies-oceanography, sub-miniaturization, information retrieval-where a man of 35 can have the experience of someone of 65. But stay away from law, medicine and architecture. Professional men almost always practice alone. To become a millionaire, you must get people behind you so that you can be multiplied...