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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's meeting will mark the first gathering of all the experts in education, industry, and government who have been interested in the progress of large scale calculators. Two of the most trying problems that the experts will tackle are the storage of numbers in the machine for future reference in a problem and the elimination of the inaccuracies that develop from the constant interpolation of intermediate results. Professor Aiken is confident that the meeting of minds will eliminate duplication of effort and bring these problems much closer to final solution...
...suceessful as had been the past, the future looked more promising. Gathered with Professor Aiken in the conference Grace M. Hopper, Richard Block, Robert Campbell, and Joseph Harrison, all research associates, discussed the possibilities of large scale computation in the various fields of applied sciences. Though their interest vary in regard to the application of automatic computing, they are united in their interest in the machines themselves "Faster and more accurate machines and more of them. "is the immediate goal. according to Professor Aiken. If his first ten years in the business are any indication another deesde should find...
...think. First, you play your mice a recording of Die Fledermaus, and when they begin waltzing, you turn down the volume and start reading to them out of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. This puts the mice to sleep. So you gently place them upon a scale, couple by couple, until it shows a full pound. Then you turn up the volume, and the mice wake up and again go into their dance. Result: a pound of waltzing mice...
Bach: Cantata No. 106: "God's Time Is Best" (Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society with chamber orchestra, G. Wallace Woodworth conducting; Technicord, 6 sides). An early Bach cantata for a funeral service meticulously performed on the small scale in which it was written...
Called to lay the groundwork for a proposed American National Students Organization, the Chicago meeting will set up a committee to work out definite proposals during the winter to be submitted to a full-scale constitutional assembly scheduled for next June...