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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
...branch of technology lacks problems for the computers.* Physicists, chemists, aircraft de signers had plenty of them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...
...Large scale calculating machines may make it feasible for the government to set production goals for major industries, Frederick V. Waugh of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers told a conference at Harvard last week...
...conference also heard Frederick Mosteller, lecturer on Mechanical Statistics, predict that new Large-scale Digital Calculating machinery may soon enable scientists to predict mathematically the chances of success of a given marriage or the degree of readjustment to the community that a given parolee will make when he is released from prison...
...make intelligent decisions about their economic future, citizens must know what the alternatives are, and the large-scale computer, Waugh states, can give us useful information about the alternatives...