Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the National Bureau of Standards told how it is teaching its SEAC (Standards Electronic Automatic Computer) to see. First step was to give SEAC a photocell and a simple device that enables it to scan a photograph and store it in its memory as 30,000 bits (yes or no units) of information. When the picture is wanted again, it can be recalled and displayed on an oscilloscope as 30,000 light or dark squares. In this case SEAC does nothing with the picture except to memorize...
...says Chairman Lyle Phillips of the University of Buffalo physics department, "getting a college education means going to classes, passing courses and collecting a diploma." But even this, says Phillips, is apparently too much for an alarming number of today's students. Anyone who doubts it need only scan some figures released by the university last week. The figures...
...their husbands," says she. "I don't want to do anything but be with Rex." Still under contract to J. Arthur Rank, for whom she will do three more pictures, Kay is in no particular hurry to go back to Hollywood, is currently letting her hazel eyes scan a pile of play scripts, hoping to discover something that suits her, "so I can keep the same hours as Rex does...
...after the Grand Canyon disaster shocked Congress into appropriating an additional $35 million toward its completion. Currently, CAA controllers outside of New York City and Washington, D.C. must form their pictures of air traffic conditions from position reports radioed in by pilots. The new installations will enable controllers to scan the skies for 200 miles around 23 of the nation's major cities, spotting everything from highflying, supersonic military jets to plodding commercial airliners and buzzing private planes...
...customary open and free fashion, the committee's decision had been determined in advance. The day before, after checking with Adlai Stevenson, Dick Daley had huddled with his lieutenants at Chicago's Palmer House to scan a list of some 20 hopefuls-among them Steve Mitchell, Stevenson's old aide and former Democratic national chairman. After three hours Daley & Co. brought out of the hat a name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote...